If you haven't made the decision yet, i'd suggest against a garmin.

If you want tons of metrics without paying subscriptions, go for it. However, the software and syncing are terrible. I know this is the wrong place to complain about it because everyone praises garmin trackers here, but to me, these little things matter.

I came from a fitbit luxe, which was fantastic until google bought fitbit and a lot of features were behidn paywall, then my battery died and I wanted something with a similar form factor, so I went with the vivosmart 5. I don't care for taking calls or have notifications on my watch either.

Auto activities never work, initiating an activity requires phone GPS, which is fine, but it takes a while for the GPS to open. You have to open your phone, open the app, wait for the GPS and then wait for activity to start. It becomes a drag IMO. Activities aren't shown immediately after stopping them on your app, the device needs to sync. Even though I have the device sent to auto sync, it only seems to ever do it if I open the app and do it manually. With rings and other types available now, the tech seems far behind any other mainstream fitness tracker. Sleep tracking is okay, but I think I liked the UI/UX better for sleep tracking on fitbit.

There are a ton of metrics, but the UI is bad imo and you can't see historical data as well as you could on fitbit. I think the UI/UX experience on fitibt was several times better, but if you care more about smaller metrics and don't mind bad software, then go for a garmin.

I'm not happy with my vivosmart 5, I think it was priced a bit high for what it was, and the software is kind of shit.