Garmin Connect™
What Garmin Connect™ is
The Garmin Connect™ app is your one-stop source for health and fitness data.
The sentence of its App Store description that best says what it is, picked by Jev. The developer's own words.The Garmin Connect™ app is your one-stop source for health and fitness data. Whether you’re training for a race, keeping active or just staying on top of your health, Garmin Connect provides the information and inspiration you need to reach your goals.
Once you pair your phone(1)with a Forerunner®, Venu®, fēnix® or another compatible Garmin device(2), you can review your tracked activities and health metrics. Plus, you can create workouts, build courses and challenge your friends on the leaderboard.
With Garmin Connect you can:
- Personalize your home screen, so the most helpful information is instantly visible
- Analyze your activities with detailed statistics(3)
- Create customized workouts and courses
- Review trends in health metrics like heart rate and steps
- Earn badges for accomplishments
- Sync with other apps like Apple Health, MyFitnessPal and Strava
- Get support for Garmin devices and their features
Learn more about Garmin devices and how they work with the Garmin Connect app at Garmin.com.
(1) See compatibility requirements at Garmin.com/BLE
(2) See a full list of compatible devices at Garmin.com/devices
(3) See Garmin.com/ataccuracy
Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
What people say
Version 5.30.1 passed its test: its complaint rate fell to 47% from 76%, and crash and bug mentions fell from 43% to 22% in Garmin Connect.
Written by an LLM from the lead report's counts.Read the reportBefore you install Garmin Connect™
Written reviews run 1.3 stars lower than the store score.
Store ratings count every star tap; written reviews come from people with something to say, so they usually run lower. Read the shares below as what reviewers raise, not the chance it happens to you.
Of the people who wrote a review
Watch out for
- Crashes and bugs25%Most often watch pairing and connection
“Can't even get the app to come up!”
- Sync and data loss13%
Share of written reviews that raise each one.
Who it suits
- Working out491 reviewers; most raised: missing featureComplain53%Praise69%
- Mental health46 reviewers; most raised: crashes and bugsComplain84%Praise40%
- Losing weight27 reviewers; most raised: missing featureComplain85%Praise57%
What Garmin Connect™ reviewers say
One public report on Garmin Connect™ reads 2,551 App Store and Google Play reviews from the last year. The report “Strava vs Garmin Connect vs Nike Run Club: what runners complain about” was last updated Oct 26, 2026. Of its 2,551 judged reviewers, 62% complain, 52% praise something, 11% make a request and 3% say they're quitting. The top complaint is crashes and bugs at 35% of complaints, then sync and data loss (16%) and missing feature (21%). Top praise: easy to use, at 21% of praise. Top requests: new feature or option (73%) and bring something back (9%). Two audience differences stand out. App Store: say they're quitting 1.5x as often as everyone (4% vs 3%). United Kingdom: say they're quitting 2.0x as often as everyone (5% vs 3%).
One public report on Garmin Connect™. Each title is written by the person who shared it; the line under it says how the reviews were picked.
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