Garmin Venu 4
Smartwatches

Venu 4

Garmin

Released Sep 1, 2025 · Analysis updated Mar 12, 2026

Smartwatch with comprehensive health tracking, 12-day battery, multi-band GPS, and a premium comfortable design. The Garmin Venu 4 scores 84/100 based on 7 expert reviews in the smartwatches category. Coverage includes reviews from Womanandhome, Techradar, Dcrainmaker, and Runnersworld.

Critic Score

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84

based on 7 expert reviews

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Pros

  • Lifestyle logging feature(3)
  • Up to 12-day battery life(2)
  • Good overall fitness tracking(2)
  • Multi-band gps(2)

Cons

  • Freezes during workouts(2)

7 Expert Reviews

92
Nov 3, 2025

The Garmin Venu 4 balances fitness tracker functions and smartwatch features like no other, offering superior sleep and wellbeing insights, over 40 workout modes, and a super sleek design.

87
Oct 22, 2025

The Garmin Venu 4 is awesome, striking the balance between dressy smartwatch and fitness tool better than any mainline Venu before it.

85
Sep 17, 2025

Garmin has just announced their Venu 4 & Venu 4S watches, which are their mainstream, but sportier, competitors to the Apple Watch, Google Pixel, and Samsung Galaxy Watch.

85
Dec 18, 2025

The Garmin Venu 4 is a meaningful step up from its predecessor, swapping in a steel case for the Venu 3's plastic one, and adding a flashlight, improved training tools, multi-band GPS and even broader...

82
Oct 18, 2025

The Garmin Venu 4 is a well-rounded fitness companion with useful training features and accurate step counting, despite some occasional heart rate sensor inaccuracies.

82
Dec 27, 2025

Even though it costs quite a bit more and sacrifices some battery life over its predecessor, the greater amount of styles for the 45mm option, increased durability and fitness tracking capabilities ma...

75
Jan 14, 2026

The Garmin Venu 4 is a stylish and balanced update with significant upgrades like a brighter display, flashlight, and dual-frequency GPS, but its hefty price jump makes it harder to recommend over the...