Fitbit has a few other things under its sleeve that you don't get on the Garmin. You will be able to take calls from the wrist when paired to your phone of Bluetooth. It also has access Alexa integration and Google Assistant support on the way to give you access to a smart assistant. This balances out exercise and stress against quality and duration of sleep/rest, to judge whether or not you may be run down. Before, during and after exercise, the Garmin Venu Sq 2 offers some stats to shed some light on what you do. And that is arguably all you need.

The stress score works similarly to the Garmin Venu Sq, offering a single number. You can also log stressful feelings manually to color these automated responses, and help Fitbit understand your body. You're getting the same on the Venu Sq too, though we'd argue with features like MoveIQ and adaptive step counts, it does better job of motivating you to move. If you have the version of the watch that comes with the built-in music player, then you’ll have room for up to 500 songs, which can be synced from your own collection or third-party services such as Spotify. The Venu Sq will give you notifications, that you can act on when paired with Android phones. You've got Garmin Pay, which is better supported in the US than it is the UK.Garmin does offer up its Assistance and Incident Detection safety features, but this requires you to have your phone nearby and paired with the watch for use. Transform your Garmin watch band's look without the hassle, all of our replacement Garmin Venu sq bands are made with high quality material and are extremely simple to install, making sure they are securely attached at all times. Every Garmin Venu sq band we sell at Fitstraps comes ready to wear and complete with the tools and screws required for attaching. The Sense in comparison features a 1.58-inch, 336 x 336 AMOLED display. So you're getting more screen and in our experience a better quality display overall on the Sense. It's a little sharper, brighter and nicer to view. The Sq's display certainly isn't bad, but the Sense feels like a big step up.

If we are going on features, the Sense edges it. Though there's some desirable smartwatch abilities the Venu Sq offers we'd liked to have seen on the Sense. Most notably the wider music streaming services support for offloading playlists.As mentioned already, Garmin has tried to keep it consistent in terms of how you can remove bands from its watches. Though it can slightly differ between models. We've outlined how to do it for a few of the most popular models below: If you care a little more about your mental wellbeing, both of these smartwatches aim to serve up data.

Continuous and resting heart rate readings were in line with those figures recorded by the Oura Ring 3 and another Garmin watch, while respiration rate averages were similar but never identical to data served up by Oura. The Sense feels like one more for casual workout fans, while you're going to more in the way accuracy, data and insights on the Venu Sq.

With the Venu Sq, you just have the optical heart monitor, but you do have the ability to pair up an external heart rate sensor to improve accuracy during exercise. The Garmin Venu Sq 2 is a great choice for those who want a reliable running watch that doesn’t look as geeky, or cost as much, as some of the classic Garmin lines. It offers OLED gloss, paired with long battery life and the stats it records are more reliable than the Fitbit Versa 4’s. Not to mention that it costs a good bit less than the admittedly slightly better-looking Garmin Venu 2 Plus. What we found in our testing is that those numbers to ring true. If you can live without having the screen set to always-on, you'll get around a week's worth of battery life. So which square smartwatch should you go for? Garmin Venu Sq or Fitbit Sense? Here's how we think you'll get dependent on your choice: