Garmin CIRQA smart band with screen-free design launched in India

Garmin has launched the CIRQA Smart Band in India, following its global launch earlier this July.

Garmin CIRQA Smart Band

The CIRQA is a screenless health and fitness tracker with a fabric band and offers up to 10 days of battery life between charges. It uses an on-device button for activity tracking and works with the Garmin Connect smartphone app. Core features are available without a subscription.

Health and sleep features

The CIRQA continuously samples heart rate from the wrist and can provide high and low heart rate alerts based on specified levels. Its health monitoring features include:

• Body Battery: Tracks body energy levels and identifies times for activity and rest.
• Stress tracking: Indicates whether the day is calm, balanced or stressful.
• Pulse Ox: Measures blood oxygen saturation while awake or asleep.
• Women’s health: Supports menstrual cycle and pregnancy tracking, along with exercise and nutrition education.
• Skin temperature: Measures skin temperature while sleeping for period predictions and estimates of past ovulation.
• Lifestyle Logging: Records caffeine and alcohol intake and provides reports on their impact on health in Garmin Connect.

Skin temperature data can also be synced with the Natural Cycles birth control app, which requires a Natural Cycles subscription.

For sleep, the CIRQA provides Sleep Score, advanced sleep monitoring and a breakdown of sleep stages. Sleep Coach provides personalised guidance on sleep requirements and ways to improve sleep quality, while Sleep Alignment tracks circadian rhythm alignment and sleep consistency. Other sleep and recovery features include:

• Nap Detection: Automatically tracks or lets users manually log naps and provides recommended nap times and durations.
• Health Status: Identifies changes in health data that may indicate additional stress or a trend away from the user’s usual range.
• Breathing Variations: Tracks changes in breathing patterns during sleep that may be related to environmental factors, alcohol or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.
• HRV Status: Provides information related to overall health, recovery and training performance while sleeping.
• Skin Temperature: Tracks changes in average skin temperature that may be related to recent activity, the sleep environment, potential illness and other factors.
• Smart Wake Alarm: Uses vibration to wake the user at the appropriate time.

Fitness and activity tracking

The CIRQA can automatically detect activities such as running and walking. Users can confirm or edit automatically detected activities in Garmin Connect, and the band adapts over time to classify activities more accurately. More than 80 activities, including running, yoga and cycling, can also be tracked manually through Garmin Connect or by selecting a favourite activity with the on-device button.

Training and fitness tracking covers readiness, training status and everyday activity metrics:

• Training Readiness: Provides a readiness score based on factors such as sleep quality and recovery.
• Training Status: Indicates training effectiveness through states such as productive, peaking or strained.
• Training-load adaptation: Tracks changes in training load over time.
• VO2 max: Shows current fitness level, changes over time, goals and progress.
• Fitness Age: Estimates fitness compared with actual age.
• Step and calorie tracking: Records daily steps and calories.
• Intensity Minutes: Tracks time spent in moderate and vigorous activity.
• Workout Benefit: Shows the effect of a workout.
• Recovery Time: Estimates the time needed to recover after a workout.

Wheelchair Mode tracks daily pushes, provides weight shift alerts and supports sports apps, while Garmin Connect+ adds workouts for wheelchair users. VO2 max is not available in Wheelchair Mode.

For outdoor walks, rides and runs, Connected GPS uses the smartphone’s GPS to provide distance and pace data in real time. LiveTrack lets friends and family follow the user’s location in real time, while Broadcast Heart Rate sends heart rate data from the CIRQA to compatible Garmin devices, including Edge cycling computers.

Garmin Connect and subscription features

Garmin Connect brings together the health, sleep, activity and fitness data collected by the CIRQA. It also lets users view and edit automatically detected activities and sync data across Garmin devices.

The optional Garmin Connect+ subscription adds the following features:

• Live Activity: Provides guided workouts and graphs for metrics such as heart rate and heart rate zones.
• Garmin Coach: Offers selected strength and fitness training plans, with some plans adapting based on health and fitness metrics.
• Garmin Active Intelligence: Provides personalised AI insights.
• Meditation: Offers voice-guided meditation practices.
• Mindful breathing: Provides breathwork activities that track stress and respiration.
• Nutrition: Tracks calories and macronutrients and provides personalised nutrition recommendations and progress reports.

The CIRQA also supports Jet Lag Adviser, which provides guidance on light exposure, sleep schedules and exercise.

Quick Specs: Garmin CIRQA Smart Band

Pricing and availability

The Garmin CIRQA Smart Band is priced at Rs. 25,990 in India on the company’s website.

• Small/Medium (S-M): Fits wrists measuring 120–200mm in circumference; available in Mauve, French Grey, Black and Captain Blue.
• Large/Extra Large (L-XL): Fits wrists measuring 145–240mm in circumference; available in Captain Blue, Mauve and Black.