Garmin Lily 2 38mm GPS smartwatch stylish smaller watch, fitness tracker with hidden display sports appspatterned lens bright touchscreen display up to 9 days battery life,

Heads up, this is a LONG detailed review. But to sum up, this watch is ideal if you have small wrists and want to monitor your health stats and triggers, however for dedicated HRV monitoring, get the Lily 2 Active. I've been wanting a smart watch for quite some time in order to monitor and record my health stats, sleep and for notifications from my phone. I tried on some of the more popular ones, including Samsung, Fitbit, Google and also had a cheaper non branded version, which was the same size as the Apple watch, however I felt that they were all too bulky on my small wrists for me to be able to tolerate wearing consistently, especially overnight. I then came across this watch. At 35mm it was quite a bit smaller than the 41mm sizes that the Samsung and Google watches came in, so I felt that this would be my best option. I've had the watch around a month now and have been wearing it consistently, including every night, and so far, I'm really impressed. Positives: - It's comfortable to wear all day and sleep in - It looks good on my small wrist - The heart rate and SpO2 measurements are accurate, as I measured these against my pulse oximeter, which I also know to be accurate as I recently compared it to the ECG monitor during a cardiology appt and it gave the same results. - I like the Garmin app, I find it very user friendly and customisable to my own needs. - The sleep tracking seems mostly accurate and is providing some good insight. - I like the stress tracker, which is apparently measured against your HRV. When it notices that you're highly 'stressed' it will then prompt you to do a 5 minute breathing exercise to bring down your stress level, which again I've found useful, although for me I don't necessarily feel it goes off anywhere near as much as it should with me being a permanent stress head. It then shows you daily what your stress levels have been throughout the day. I use this as a way of pacing the following day, or for proving to family why I'm now in a crash after socialising with them! - At the end of each day it asks you, via the app, to record your 'behaviours' under lifestyle logging, and again these can be customised so that you can monitor different triggers to your health etc. I find this very useful. - It monitors your menstruation cycle and gives you warnings when you're approaching that time of the month. Very useful. - It can monitor your water intake via the watch itself. Initially I found this helpful but unfortunately after about 7-10 days I started to forget to log this. - You can log your blood pressure. This needs to be taken manually, the watch does not do it for you, but it can be logged via the app to keep track of it, if needed for medical reasons, so all your health stats are in one place. - The step counter seems very accurate and you can change your step goals at any time. It also alerts you when you have reached your goal. - It tells you your sleep quality on the watch each morning, as well as the weather and any events you've put in your calendar for the day. - It goes into sleep mode at a time which you can choose, and then back into normal mode again at a time of your choosing. In sleep mode it turns off the screen and notifications so it does not wake you during the night. - The notifications via various apps on my phone are very handy, and you can pick and choose which notifications it displays on the watch by toggling on/off on the different apps via the Garmin app. I would regularly miss calls and texts when out and about as I wouldn't hear my phone in my bag, but now I feel a vibration on my wrist when these come through so I never miss them. - It comes with an emergency mode which you can add emergency contacts to. If you need help or assistance you tap 10 times on the watch face and it will activate that mode and send text messages to your emergency contacts to alert them that you may need assistance. - It has find my phone alert on it, which has proven useful when I've put my phone down somewhere indoors and can't find it! - It's lightweight and not at all bulky so I have gotten used to wearing it consistently without a problem. - I like the strap, it's like a silicone type material but looks leather. It's comfortable and also easy to fasten independently. - The battery life on it seems pretty good. I get around 4-5 days out of it per full charge. Draw backs: - Whilst the sleep tracking seems to be mostly accurate, I have found a few times that it's said I was in REM sleep when I know I was awake, for instance in the morning when actually I was up and feeding my cat! - It has a 'body battery' function which, depending on your sleep quality and I think potentially your stress/HRV levels, tells you how much energy you have in your tank to give for the day/rest of the day. I thought I would find this useful as I have an energy limiting condition, but unfortunately for me I don't find it accurate. It also takes a few weeks for this to start reporting as it wants to monitor your stats first to work out your baseline, but I don't feel it does this in the same way as say the Visible band. - The charger is a bit fiddly and annoying. The cheap non branded watch I had came with a magnetic charger which was much more user friendly. This one you have to clip onto the watch and you have to get the prongs in the exact right positioning. - It's a basic watch in a sense of that it does not come with a coloured dial, pictures, ECG, GPS, or things like Garmin Pay etc. The Lily 2 Active comes with GPS however. - It doesn't come with dedicated HRV monitoring, only the Lily 2 Active does (which I didn't realise until a few months after purchase!) This would have made the watch much more suited to me as I suffer with M.E, and HRV monitoring is quite important for managing effective pacing. All in all, I'm still very pleased with the watch. It does most of the things I need it to do for monitoring my health and receiving notifications. I don't personally feel that I need any of the added extras that the bigger watches come with, as I either have these on my phone or I don't require them. You do need to play around with the app and settings to fully customise the watch to your individual needs, which I found fairly straight forward. It won't just do everything I've mentioned above straight out of the box. I haven't commented on the 'activities'/ sports modes as I have not used these due to health limitations. I would recommend this watch to anyone who has small wrists like mine and wants to track and monitor their health needs, but if you have conditions like M.E, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID, POTS etc, I would recommend the Lily 2 Active as this comes with dedicated HRV monitoring.

Very nice and stylish

The watch is great and looks good but let down when we tried to charge it as the charging cable was not a standard USB. The cable you get needs a fast charger like new iPhone’s! All features are also great and happy with the watch apart from the charging.

Lovely looking watch, works really well, can't tell you have it on, very light. Everything I need, steps ,heart rate, message notifications, sleep routine, body battery.

Gift for my teenager sister, she loves this watch and enjoys the customizable features, knowing her body battery and steps for the day. The garmin app too is great as we now both can complete fitness challenges together! Good value for money and good battery life.

Slim line strap and watch face are excellent size for smaller wrists - wife’s measure only 14cm so this has been an ideal purchase.

Lovely looking watch but that's about it. You have to remember to track exercise. When you actually remember it takes forever to update your info. Even when I have achieved step count for the day it takes forever to update so I failed challenges because of it not updating.

Pros- Fits well -Good design, looks nice on my wrist -Tracks steps, heart rate etc. well -Notifications received okay However, it regularly disconnects from my phone and frustratingly the touch screen frequently doesn't work so it just sticks. I have, therefore, stopped recording my activities. This is not ideal. I do really like the look of this watch, which is why (despite the problems with the touch screen) I have decided to keep it. I just do not record my activities!

Very bad its less than 1 month . The watch is not working . Not accuret heart rate measurements . Suddenly stop sending notifications

Je suis ravie de mon achat ! La Garmin Lily 2 allie élégance et performance : son design est fin, léger et discret, parfait pour le porter tous les jours sans sensation de lourdeur. L’écran est clair et réactif, même en plein soleil. Côté fonctionnalités, elle suit très bien l’activité physique (marche, course, vélo…), mais aussi le sommeil et la santé (fréquence cardiaque, stress, SpO2). Les alertes et notifications sont pratiques, tout en restant sobres. L’autonomie est également satisfaisante : plusieurs jours sans avoir à recharger, ce qui est très confortable. En résumé, c’est une montre connectée idéale pour celles et ceux qui cherchent un compromis entre style et efficacité, sans avoir un énorme cadran au poignet. Je recommande à 100%

Dochter is er super tevreden mee. Lange batterijduur, klein en elegant ontwerp, past perfect om een smalle pols

I’m so in love with, it’s beautiful practical and amazing 😍♥️

This is such a good watch, and finally something that has a watch face suitable for people with small wrists. It integrates really well with smart phones, for people who want it as a way of staying connected without looking at their phone, as well as fitness tracking. The watch itself is comfortable and stylish, looking much less obviously like a fitness watch than other competitors