Garmin Vivoactive 4: Best High-End Fitness Tracker

If you’re looking for a fitness tracker that really balances form and function, the Garmin Vivoactive 4 should be at the top of your list.

- ANGELA MOSCARITOLO

This feature-rich GPS fitness tracker-smartwatch hybrid boasts a stylish design, more than 20 preloaded sports apps, onboard music storage, and support for Bluetooth headphones. It builds on its excellent predecessors with the addition of onscreen workout animations, Pilates support, enhanced yoga metrics, pulse oximeter readings, respiration tracking, and underwater heart-rate monitoring. The Vivoactive 4 is expensive, but it offers tremendous value for the price, earning our Editors’ Choice for high-end fitness trackers.

VIVOACTIVE 4 VS. VIVOACTIVE 4S

The Vivoactive 4 comes in two sizes. The 40mm model, somewhat confusingly named the Vivoactive 4S, is for wrists measuring 4.3 to 6.8 inches in circumference and comes in gold/pink, rose gold/white, silver/gray, or slate/ black color options. The 45mm model, the Vivoactive 4, is for wrists 5.3 to 7.8 inches and comes in silver/gray or slate/black.

Garmin sent me the rose gold/white 4S for this review, but I’ll refer to it as the Vivoactive 4, since the models are mostly identical aside from battery life, size, and weight. The 4 has a 1.3-inch screen and weighs 1.7 ounces, while the 4S has a 1.1-inch display and weighs 1.4 ounces.