Garmin Connect‪™‬ 4+

I’ve tried several running apps - this one is outstanding. It is super easy to plan your trainings, you can set your targets for pace, distance, heart rate, time, number of reps. Synchronizes with your Garmin watch smoothly and keeps the satellite positions updated. It provides many useful training and health insights, like, why you do not improve your running performance despite of sufficient mileage. Highly recommend!

I bought a Garmin watch in 2017, used it a while but I was not satisfied with this app because it was very slow to load the data when looking around in the different categories. Also, it archived old data and it needs time to load it. Sometimes it is not possible to check an exact date so I have to click 365 times to go back a year… The data points don’t have exact numbering so you can just estimate things. I missed some features for the sleep tracking too. The main Callander view is just colorful bars, without any explanation, so I never knew what they meant. I couldn’t export my gps-tracked hikings as GPX too. So, I stopped using that Garmin watch. Fast forward 6 years to 2023, I bought an expensive Garmin watch, then I realized that THIS APP IS STILL THE SAME CUMBERSOME, SLUGGISH, ALWAYS LOADING APP what I did not like back then. It looks like Garmin stopped making its app better since 2017. Huge disappointment! :(

Congratulations Garmin for being able to make a great application worse. I have had numerous Garmin smartwatches as the watch and the app have worked well together. With a dismay I am rewriting my past 5* review as the new app is just horrible. Often it doesn’t recognize the smartwatch until both get restarted (it was never an issue before the switch to the new version) and when I sync, I desperately have to wait for minutes until something happens. Maybe it was me the only one in beta test to point out the speed issue with sync? Or is there some unknown great feature that needs the watch to keep syncing until my hair is gray? Just used a stopwatch and it needed 5 minutes to sync, even if I last synced yesterday. Every time it is like that. I don’t mind losing my record and buy another product next time if Garmin cares so little about user experience.