
Vivoactive 3 | White w/ Rose Gold Hardware
From playing to paying, vívoactive 3 is the smartwatch for your active life. Make contactless payments with ease, right from your watch, and with more than 15 preloaded sports apps — you can choose how you like to get fit. Built-in GPS lets you record the distance, pace, location and more for your outdoor activities.
Pay Your Way
vívoactive 3 is our first wearable to feature Garmin Pay, which lets you pay for purchases with your watch. Use it just about anywhere you can tap your card to pay1. So, if you left your wallet in your locker or just forgot it, that post-run morning caffè latte can still be yours. Just tap and go.

Make It Yours
vívoactive 3 is compatible with our Connect IQ store, where you can download watch faces, widgets and apps that make it go from smartwatch to your watch. Keep tabs on when your Uber is arriving, turn on your lights at home with the SmartThings app, and even use the AccuWeather MinuteCast app to find out when the rain will start. You can also use our free Face It™ watch face app to add personality to your device that’s uniquely you. Just download the app, choose any image from your photo library, make your customizations, and set it as your watch’s face.

Play More Sports
With more than 15 preloaded sports apps, finding a fun way to stay active is easy. Hit the golf course, go for a bike ride, take a yoga class, or even try your hand at stand-up paddle boarding. When you head outside, built-in GPS lets vívoactive 3 track the details of your chosen activity — with no phone connection required. From snowboarding to swimming and at least a dozen other options in between, this watch is the perfect playmate.

Fits You and All You Do
Feel free to take this watch outside in all kinds of weather. Not only is it safe for swimming and showering, its Garmin Chroma Display™ is easy to read — even in direct sunlight — and housed under extra-durable glass. It also features the Side-Swipe™ interface, which makes for quick scrolling and swift navigation of menus and widgets. Whether you scroll with your thumb or index finger, you can choose how to wear it. Comfortable, convenient and easy to see — vívoactive 3 just fits.
Download and Create Workouts
Keep your workout schedule fresh and invigorating. Create your own custom running, cycling, cardio or strength workouts, and download them to your watch. Then, your vívoactive smartwatch will keep track of the exercises, reps, sets and rest time for you.
Daily Fitness and Stress Tracking
With help from Elevate™ wrist-based heart rate technology², vívoactive 3 lets you monitor key aspects of your fitness and stress to show how your body responds under various circumstances. For example, it’s able to estimate your VO2 max and fitness age — 2 indicators of physical fitness that can often improve over time with regular exercise. It also tracks your heart rate variability (HRV), which is used to calculate and track your stress level. vívoactive 3 can make you aware when physical or emotional sources cause your stress level to rise so you can find a way to relieve the pressure.

Always Connected
Life doesn’t have a pause button, so stay connected with your vívoactive 3 smartwatch while you’re playing hard or working out. Once paired with your compatible smartphone, you’ll be able to receive and even respond5 to text messages and see social media updates, emails and more right on your wrist. Find your phone, access music controls and let friends LiveTrack your sports. Your finished activities will even automatically upload to our Garmin Connect online fitness community.

Share and Compete
Syncing your activities to Garmin Connect is for more than just storing your data. Garmin Connect is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete by joining challenges, encourage each other’s successes and even share their triumphs via social media. Garmin Connect is free and available on the web or on your smartphone with the Garmin Connect™ Mobile app.

Track Your Cycle
Get a better understanding of your body using the Garmin Connect menstrual cycle tracking feature. Use it to track cycle details, log physical and emotional symptoms and record personal notes for regular, irregular and menopause transition cycle types. You’ll get education about training and nutrition during each phase of your current cycle, too. With the Connect IQ app6, you’ll get cycle updates — such as period reminders, cycle details and symptoms logged for the day — delivered to your wrist.
Physical & Performance
GPS | Yes |
Display resolution | 240 x 240 pixels |
Weight |
43.0 g |
Display type | sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 7 days GPS mode: Up to 13 hours |
Display size | 1.2" (30.4mm) diameter |
Maps & Navigation
Memory/History | 7 timed activities, 14 days of activity tracking data |
Features
Cardio workouts | Yes |
Time/date | yes |
% HRR | No |
Water rating | 5 ATM |
Around Me mode | No |
Training Effect (anaerobic) | No |
TruSwing™ compatible | No |
Customizable data pages | Yes |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) | Yes |
Anchor Alarm | No |
Hazards and course targets | Yes |
Drill logging (pool swim only) | No |
Garmin AutoShot™ | Yes |
TracBack® | No |
Auto scroll | Yes |
Worldwide airport database(s) | No |
Controls smartphone music | Yes |
3-axis compass with HSI (horizontal situation indicator) | No |
Ambient light sensor | No |
Downloadable training plans | Yes |
Countdown timer | No |
HR zones | Yes |
Point-to-point navigation | No |
Finish time | No |
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | Yes |
Race an activity | No |
Step counter | Yes |
Run workouts | Yes |
Manual lap | Yes |
Distance traveled | Yes |
Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | Yes |
Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) | No |
Wirelessly receive flight plans from Garmin Pilot™ | No |
Future elevation plot | No |
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | Automatic |
Courses | No |
Fitness Age | yes (in app) |
Galileo | Yes |
Distance to destination | No |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
% HR max | Yes |
Strength workouts | Yes |
Audible alerts | No |
Lens Material |
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 |
Calendar | Yes |
Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map) | No |
Find My Phone | Yes |
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | Yes |
Compatible with Varia™ lights | Yes |
Training Effect | No |
Night vision mode | No |
Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert | No |
Customizable activity profiles | Yes |
HR calories | Yes |
Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) | No |
Hunt/fish calendar | No |
Alarm clock | Yes |
LiveTrack | Yes |
Dual grid coordinates | No |
Available cycling profiles |
Biking, Indoor Biking |
Strap material |
silicone |
Auto Lap® | Yes |
Auto Pause® | Yes |
Task timers (2, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 minutes) | No |
PlaysLike distance | No |
Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display) | No |
Activity history on watch | Yes |
Advanced workouts | Yes |
Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | No |
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor | No |
Tack assist mode | No |
Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) | No |
Storm alert | No |
Power meter compatible | No |
Quick Release Bands | yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) | No |
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | Yes |
Case material | fiber-reinforced polymer with stainless steel rear cover |
Gyroscope | No |
Bezel Material |
stainless steel |
Auto max HR | No |
Analog hands | No |
Compass | Yes |
FTP (Functional Threshold Power) | No |
Thermometer | Yes |
Course guidance | No |
Time and distance alerts | Yes |
Barometric altimeter | Yes |
Area calculation | No |
GPS Time Sync | Yes |
60-minute activity goal | No |
Countdown start (pool swim only) | No |
Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | No |
Automatic rep counting | Yes |
Physical size |
43.4 x 43.4 x 11.7 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 127-204 mm |
Full vector map | No |
VIRB® Remote | Yes |
Round timer/odometer | Yes |
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | Yes |
Respiration rate (all-day and in sleep) | No |
GLONASS | Yes |
Projected waypoint | No |
Sunrise/sunset times | Yes |
Find My Watch | Yes |
Preloaded topographical maps | No |
Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) |
yes |
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) | No |
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | Yes |
GPS speed and distance | Yes |
Chores | No |
Available gym activity profiles | Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing and Yoga |
All-day Stress Tracking | Yes |
Unit-to-unit route/location sharing | No |
Foot pod capable | Yes |
Move IQ™ | Yes |
Sun and moon information | No |
Pool swim workouts | No |
Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) | No |
Back to start | Yes |
Automatic daylight saving time | Yes |
Virtual Partner | No |
Smart notifications | Yes |
Available swim profiles |
Pool Swimming |
Green View with manual pin position | Yes |
Round-trip course creator (running/cycling) | No |
Chronograph | No |
Yoga workouts | No |
Weather | Yes |
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | Yes |
Interval training | No |
Multiple time zones with Zulu/UTC | No |
Touch-targeting (touch target on display to see the distance to any point) | No |
Strava Live Segments | No |
Race predictor | No |
Connectivity | Bluetooth® Smart and ANT+® |
Recovery time | No |
Color display | Yes |
Garmin Pay™ | Yes |
On-screen workout animations | No |
Compatible with BaseCamp™ | No |
Rewards (coins) | No |
Virtual starting line | No |
Built-in barometer and tide tables | No |
Altimeter with adjustable baro setting | No |
Auto CourseView updates | No |
Available outdoor recreation profiles |
Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing |
Automatic sync (automatically transfers data to Garmin Connect) | No |
Intensity minutes | Yes |
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | Yes |
Stride length (real time) | No |
Stopwatch | Yes |
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) | Yes |
Running dynamics | No |
HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels) | No |
Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | Yes |
Downloadable cartography support | No |
V02 max | Yes |
Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue) | No |
GPS coordinates | No |
Physio TrueUp | Yes |
Compatible with Vector™ (power meter) | No |
Garmin Live Segments | No |
HR alerts | Yes |
Hot keys | No |
"Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only) | No |
Accelerometer | Yes |
Yardage to layups/doglegs | Yes |
Handicap scoring | No |
GPS-based distance, time and pace | Yes |
Worldwide NAVAID and Intersection database(s) | No |
Calories burned | Yes |
Touch and/or button lock | Yes |
Advanced Vector support | No |
Trail run auto climb | No |
Audio prompts | No |
Configurable lap alerts | No |
Timer | Yes |
NEXRAD on moving map | No |
TrueUp™ | Yes |
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | Yes |
Vertical speed | No |
Available run profiles |
Running, Indoor Track Running, Treadmill Running |
Touchscreen | Yes |
Floors climbed | Yes |
Bread crumb trail in real time | No |
Elevation profile | No |
Digital scorecard | yes |
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | Yes |
Custom targets | No |
PinPointer | Yes |
Sight 'N Go | No |
Tempo Training | No |
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | Yes |
Pilates workouts | No |
Waypoint information page | No |
SwingTempo | No |
Group LiveTrack | No |
Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | Yes |
Moving Map with aviation airports, navaids, roads, bodies of water and more | No |
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | Yes |
Race an Activity | No |
Custom alerts | No |
Multiple bike profiles | No |
Total ascent/descent | Yes |