Customer Reviews for Garmin - Venu 4 GPS Smartwatch 45 mm Fiber-reinforced polymer - Silver - (2025)
Customer Rating
3
Stupid agreement with MyFitenssPal
on August 26, 2026
Posted by: Upset Customer
I wanted to use Cronometer app to feed calories intake to Garmin and it's not possible. Cronometer can only read data from Garmin but cannot send any. This is because Garmin entered into some kind of agreement with MyFitnessPal and I hate companies that limit consumers choices like that. Watch itself (Venu 4) is decent.
I am really enjoying this smart watch. I like how light this is compared to other smart watches, it has a few less buttons from other Garmin watches, but that is easy to get used to. You get a lot of the same utilities as the other garmin devices (I went from a 265s). Hands down I love the battery life on this (about 12 days)and charging it is extremely fast.
The touch screen is not a great feature. After I do a swim the watch face is wet and it will not scroll up to "save." So it is difficult to use. The Forerunner I had before was better. Also, there are way too many useless notifications. I don't need for it to tell me a lot of stuff I don't need to know. It's annoying.
I am really enjoying my Venu 4. I was looking for an updated watch that would offer me the fitness and rest stats that my oura ring gave me in addition to looking nice and being a reliable fitness watch. So far, this has checked all of the boxes. I