Connect Garmin Health Data Securely with Thryve API

Unlock seamless access to Garmin Connect data from fitness trackers and smartwatches using Thryve’s secure, scalable API. Enable health insights across fitness, wellness, and clinical applications.

Streamline Garmin Data Integration Across Devices

Integrate Garmin Connect data easily into your digital health, wellness, or research platform. Thryve’s API enables access to rich health and fitness data, such as heart rate, sleep stages, activity, stress, and VO₂ max, from Garmin wearables. Data is normalized and harmonized for instant use across dashboards, reports, and machine learning pipelines.

Deliver Personalized, Real-Time Health Experiences

  • Digital Health & Fitness Apps: Offer users advanced health analytics and real-time feedback using Garmin’s high-resolution sensor data.
  • Chronic Disease & Cardiac Monitoring: Leverage continuous heart rate, stress, and sleep trends to support remote monitoring and preventive interventions.
  • Clinical Research: Use validated physiological data from Garmin wearables to power real-world evidence generation and enhance decentralized trials.
  • Corporate & Insurance Wellness: Build activity-based rewards programs using verified data from Garmin devices synced through Thryve’s API.

Privacy-First Integration with Garmin Connect

Thryve ensures data security and user trust with GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO-compliant infrastructure. The Garmin Connect integration operates on a consent-based model with de-identified tokens, enabling secure yet scalable access to individual health metrics.

Built for Developers, Trusted by Healthcare Innovators

Our Garmin Connect integration delivers:

  • A developer-ready API and SDK for fast onboarding
  • Full support for Garmin user authentication and data scopes
  • Ongoing updates as Garmin Connect evolves
  • Unified data models for interoperability with 500+ other devices and apps

Whether you’re launching a digital health startup or scaling a remote patient monitoring system, Thryve enables robust Garmin integration at every stage.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions:
Connection Essentials

  • How can I connect Garmin data to my app?
    • Garmin Connect offers a robust developer ecosystem through the Garmin Health API. With user consent, it allows third-party applications to retrieve comprehensive physiological and activity data from Garmin smartwatches and fitness trackers.
  • What is Garmin Connect?
    • Garmin Connect is a cloud-based health and fitness platform that aggregates data from all Garmin devices, like the Forerunner, Fenix, Vivoactive, and Vivosmart series. It stores activity, sleep, heart rate, respiration rate, and VO₂ max data, which can be securely accessed by third-party apps upon authorization.
  • What kind of data can I access through Garmin?
    • Garmin provides detailed metrics including steps, heart rate (including HRV), calories, advanced sleep analysis, stress, body battery, workouts, GPS tracks, and more, depending on the user’s device model.
  • How can I integrate Garmin with Thryve?
    • With Thryve’s wearable API and SDK, your app can integrate Garmin data with minimal development time. Thryve handles the OAuth-based user authentication process, data mapping, and harmonization across Garmin and other supported sources like Fitbit, Polar, Withings, and Apple Health.