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How to see your Garmin year in review for free

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In December 2025 Garmin launched its year in review, the Garmin Connect Rundown: total steps, average sleep score, totals for each activity type and more. Only Connect+ subscribers can open it. Connect+ costs $6.99 a month or $69.99 a year in the US, with a 30-day free trial. Many people who had worn a Garmin every day for years found out they had to pay to see their own year.

Your year still lives in your Garmin account, and you can get to it for free. Here are three ways, from quickest to most complete, and a fourth if you want the story rather than the table.

The short answer:

  1. Start the Connect+ free trial after the Rundown comes out, and cancel before it renews.
  2. Open Garmin Connect on the web and use Reports → Progress Summary, grouped by year.
  3. Export all your data from your Garmin account and add it up yourself.
  4. See what a year story looks like in the Peakreel demo.

Is the Garmin year in review free this year?

As of mid-November 2026, Garmin hasn’t said. Last year the Rundown arrived in early December and only Connect+ members could open it, and reviews as late as April 2026 still listed it as a Connect+ feature. So plan for it to need Connect+ again. If Garmin changes its mind, the Rundown will show up in the Garmin Connect app and you won’t need any of the steps below.

1. Use the Connect+ free trial

This is the fastest way to see Garmin’s own recap. Start the 30-day trial after the Rundown is released, not before, so the trial covers it. Then set a reminder to cancel a few days before it renews.

Check the trial terms in the app first. They can differ by country and change over time, and you may not get a second trial if you used one before.

2. Progress Summary on the Garmin Connect website

This works on the website (connect.garmin.com), not in the phone app, and it’s free.

  1. Sign in to Garmin Connect in a browser.
  2. Open Reports, then choose Progress Summary at the bottom of the menu.
  3. Pick the period, for example the previous year.
  4. Group by Year for one row per year, or by activity type.
  5. Choose All Activities for the headline numbers, or a single sport, such as running or cycling, for a full table.
  6. Use Customize to pick the columns, and Export to CSV if you want the numbers in a spreadsheet.

For steps, Reports → Health and Fitness shows daily, 7-day, 4-week and 1-year totals, and the arrows take you back through past years.

Garmin moves these menus around between redesigns, so the names may differ slightly on your screen. Check the dates at the top of each report too: some show the last 12 months rather than a calendar year.

3. Export everything and add it up yourself

Your Garmin account lets you request a copy of all your data. Sign in to your Garmin account, find Data management, and choose Export your data. Garmin emails you a download link when the archive is ready, which can take a while.

The archive is a ZIP file. From it you can work out total distance and hours per sport, your busiest month and week, your longest activity and your total climbing. It’s the most complete free option and the most work: expect an evening with a spreadsheet, and some files will need converting.

What a table doesn’t tell you

Totals are useful, but they’re a list of numbers. They don’t answer the questions people actually ask about a year:

  • How consistent was the year? How many weeks had any training at all, and what was the longest run of weeks in a row?
  • When was the best stretch? The steadiest month, the biggest week, the favourite day to train.
  • What did it add up to? Distance as a share of the way around the Earth, climbing counted in Everests, the highest point reached.
  • Time, not just distance. Hours count every sport the same way, so a swim, a hike and a gym session all add up.

The useful comparison is with your own usual, not with other people.

4. See your year as a story

That’s what Peakreel’s Your year does. It turns a year of watch data into a short story, one fact per screen: distance, hours, runs of weeks in a row, the steadiest month, the highest summit and personal bests.

You can try it on a real year of data from my own watch, or open the full demo dashboard.

To be clear about where things stand: today the story runs on demo data only. Connecting your own Garmin account needs approval from Garmin’s developer program first. Until then, options 1 to 3 work for anyone.

Common questions

Is the Garmin year in review free? Last year the Garmin Connect Rundown needed a Connect+ subscription. Garmin hasn’t announced this year’s terms yet.

Where do I find the Garmin Connect Rundown? In the Garmin Connect app, once Garmin releases it. Last year that was early December.

Can I see my yearly totals without paying? Yes. On the Garmin Connect website, Reports → Progress Summary groups your totals by year, and you can export all your data from your Garmin account at any time.

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