The best apps for Garmin vívoactive 5
The best app for the Garmin vívoactive 5 this week is Walk With Frodo by RoboleoApps (Free, score 8.4/10). Walk with Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom: your daily steps carry you 2,896 km (1,800 miles) along the journey, with 66 milestones from the books and movies and information about each place.
Apps, widgets, data fields and music apps that support the vívoactive 5 (all sizes and editions), picked from our weekly ranking of the whole Connect IQ Store. Entries made for the vívoactive 5, or for what it is built for, come first; after that the weekly score decides.
Walk With Frodo
Walk with Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom: your daily steps carry you 2,896 km (1,800 miles) along the journey, with 66 milestones from the books and movies and information about each place.
HYROX Tracker: ROXZONE
A dedicated HYROX app: a true race simulation on your wrist with running legs, station paces and transition times split cleanly in one saved activity. Plan your race on your phone; one-time purchase, no subscription.
WHM breathing+
A breathing exercise tracker in the style of the Wim Hof method. The paid version adds a warning vibration before the end of breathing, detailed round info, adjustable vibrations and sounds, and a touchscreen lock.
Push-Up Hero
Push-up challenges on your watch: track your push-ups, see your progress in a log and compete with friends on a weekly, monthly and yearly leaderboard, either global or in your own private group.
Hydration PRO
Stay hydrated with a beautifully crafted widget: track water, coffee, soft drinks, alcohol and more in colors you choose, and show your hydration on selected popular watch faces. A free basic version exists.
CGM Connect Widget
A free widget that shows your glucose values (mg/dl or mmol/L) from Freestyle Libre, Dexcom, Medtronic, Nightscout, xDrip and other CGM sources on your watch.
Meditation and Breathwork
A meditation and breathwork app that shows how your body responds in real time, combining guided sessions with heart rate and other biometric data, so you can watch your nervous system settle as you practice.
FocusGym
A data field for weightlifting, bodybuilding and CrossFit that tells you when to start your next set based on your real-time heart rate recovery, like a digital strength coach on your wrist.
HYDRATE+
A free hydration tracker app and widget: log drinks from two sets of three container sizes with one tap or swipe, undo mistakes and get hydration reminders as a pop-up message or right on supported watch faces from the same developer.
Rain
A lightweight rain widget that shows a graph of the coming precipitation, faster than radar image widgets: the next hour in the USA, UK and Ireland, the next 2 hours in several European countries.
Cacher (Geocaching)
Geocaching on your watch: search caches near you, read their descriptions, see size, difficulty and terrain on a map, follow the distance and direction, log finds and record the hunt as an activity.
Awesome Maps (Free Topo Map & Routes + Offline)
Topo, satellite and national maps on your watch even without built-in map support, streamed from your phone, with route following and an offline mode. Includes many national map services worldwide.
Gym sets counter
Shows the number of the current set during a strength activity, so you always know where you are in your workout.
RuckTrack — Rucking, Treadmill, Weighted Vest
Tracks rucking, weighted-vest walks and loaded hikes, indoors or out, and calculates calories with the Pandolf load-carriage equation from pack weight, speed, grade and surface. Pack weight, ruck calories and burn rate are saved to Garmin Connect.
Atmos Weather
A weather app with an extended forecast: current weather, a 7-day forecast with detailed hourly data for each day and a 24-hour forecast with values you choose.
ANT+ HRM Heart Rate Monitor
Connects an extra ANT+ heart rate monitor, shows its data and records it to the FIT file for comparison: heart rate, lap and session min, average and max, and zones.
Tides
A widget with tide times and heights plus wave and wind forecasts for the nearest station or one you pick, with sunrise and sunset. The data stays available offline. The free version shows 12 hours; Pro shows 5 days and accepts custom coordinates.
WindField ™ / wind & radar
The original wind data field for cyclists since 2018: wind and radar information during rides with frequent updates and fast personal support. A one-week free trial, then a purchase unlocks the full ecosystem.
Golf Driving Range Pro
Your personal golf swing coach for the driving range: 10+ metrics of your swing tempo with analysis and tips, automatic shot tracking, a tempo metronome and sync with Garmin Connect.
Training Readiness
A widget with a daily readiness score from 0 to 100, calculated from Body Battery, recovery time, resting heart rate against its 7-day average and blood oxygen, with clear levels from Go hard to Rest. The score can also sync to Intervals.icu.
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