Wearables and health apps

Does Vora work with Garmin?

Yes. Vora connects directly to Garmin Connect on iPhone and Android, free on every plan, and imports workouts, sleep stages, heart rate, HRV, VO2 max and more. Garmin’s Body Battery and Training Readiness scores are not imported.

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What Vora imports from Garmin

The direct connection brings in these records when your watch records them and you allow them in Garmin’s sharing permissions:

  • Workouts and activities
  • Steps, distance, floors climbed and active energy
  • Heart rate, resting heart rate and HRV
  • Sleep stages and duration
  • Blood oxygen (SpO2) and respiratory rate
  • VO2 max
  • Weight, body fat, BMI and lean body mass
  • Blood pressure readings and skin temperature deviation

What Vora does not import

  • Body Battery and Training Readiness. Vora calculates its own Recovery score from your overnight HRV, resting heart rate and sleep instead.
  • Food or nutrition. The Garmin connection carries no food data.
  • Anything your watch does not record, or that you do not allow Garmin to share.

How to connect Garmin

  1. Sync your watch with the Garmin Connect app.
  2. In Vora, open Settings, then Connections, then Garmin.
  3. Sign in to Garmin Connect and allow the data you want to share.
  4. Vora requests your recent history. After that, new data syncs in the background after your watch syncs with Garmin Connect, without the Garmin Connect app open.

iPhone and Android

The direct connection works the same way on iPhone and Android. Garmin Connect can also share records with Apple Health on iPhone or Health Connect on Android, and Vora reads those too.

If the same Garmin data reaches Vora both ways, Vora keeps both sources and decides which one to use for each metric. Choosing the source for a metric yourself needs Vora Pro.

Garmin’s own help page does not list HRV among the data Garmin Connect sends to Health Connect. The direct Garmin connection imports HRV and VO2 max.

Free or Pro

The Garmin connection is free on every Vora plan, including Vora Free.

Limits

  • You still need Garmin Connect. Your watch syncs to Garmin Connect, and Garmin sends the data on to Vora.
  • New records reach Vora only after your watch has synced with Garmin Connect.
  • The records you get depend on your Garmin model and the permissions you allow.

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