The Garmin Vivofit 4 costs $80, which isn't that cheap you can find fitness trackers with heart rate sensors and push notifications for half that price. Sleep tracking is where Fitbit still wins. while maintaining excellent posture and a neutral wrist position. But the Vivofit 4 will definitely think you're asleep if you're sitting on the couch playing video games, lying in bed reading Reddit or even typing furiously at 2 a.m. Maybe it's because Garmin's Move IQ technology needs movement to work. The Garmin Vivofit 4 also tracks sleep, but not very well. If you're worried this autodetection might fail, you can also manually launch workout mode from the Vivofit 4's menu. If the tracker senses you're doing something strenuous, such as running or biking, it automatically launches itself into workout mode to record your intensity minutes. To determine intensity minutes, the Vivofit 4 uses Garmin's Move IQ technology, which automatically detects what type of activity you're doing based on the movement of your wrist. The Vivofit 4 tracks steps, distance, calories burned and intensity minutes, or active/workout minutes. The Garmin Vivofit 4 doesn't have built-in GPS or a heart-rate sensor, so its fitness-tracking features are a little limited.
Garmin Vivofit 4 fitness-tracking: Surprisingly adequate I'm not confident this feature would be much help if my phone was actually misplaced. Unfortunately, the only times it worked was when my phone was in the tracker's line of sight.
I tested this feature several times with my iPhone X, and it worked about 70% of the time. This is a handy feature (and one you usually don't see in budget trackers), or it would be…if it worked. The Garmin Vivofit 4 also has a "find my phone" menu option, which can force a sound to play on your phone when you misplace it. 10 Most Surprising Uses for Fitness Trackers.OK, so Toe-to-Toe challenges aren't going to replace your cardio, but they might make it more fun to get up and move around every so often, especially if you've got family members to compete with. At the end of the Toe-to-Toe challenge, your Vivofit 4 will display how many steps you took and whether you came in first or second. A Toe-to-Toe challenge is a movement exercise that lets you challenge anyone with a compatible device - another Vivofit 4 or a Garmin Vivofit Jr 2 - to move around as much as possible in 2 minutes. You can also manually record workouts, use a stopwatch or timer, find your phone and do a "Toe-to-Toe" challenge. You can do a number of things from the Garmin Vivofit 4's menu, but you'll mostly use it to sync the Vivofit 4 to your phone (the device does sync automatically, but this doesn't seem to work consistently). Once you're in the menu, tap the button once to cycle through the menu options, and tap and hold the button to select an option. Tap the button once to cycle through the different metrics, and tap and hold the button to enter the Vivofit 4's menu. The Vivofit 4 has one button, which is easy to get the hang of.
You can toggle these metrics on and off in the Garmin Connect app, and there's also an option to add a custom widget (which is just text - the default is "beat yesterday"). The screen shows just one metric at a time: time, date, steps, steps to your goal, distance, calories burned, weekly "intensity" minutes, and weather. Garmin Vivofit 4 display: Small but usableThe Garmin Vivofit 4's display is tiny: 11 x 11 millimeters and 88 x 88 pixels. Garmin Vivofit 4 display: Small but usable Because most of the device is covered in TPU/silicone, the band has a weird hump that looks very casual and fitness-y - you're not wearing this with a suit. The bottom line here is that there's just no way this looks or feels like anything other than a fitness tracker. It's not huge, but it is heavier than minimalist fitness trackers like the Moov Now, which weighs 15.1 grams with the band. The Garmin Vivofit 4 weighs 25 grams with the band (25.5 if you have the large size) and 11 grams without it.
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