Multiple recent leaks suggest Garmin is about to announce a new kind of trendy wearable.
That trend? The screenless tracker, brought to at least some of the public’s attention by the popular Whoop band series.
A listing for a Cirque Smart Band wearable appeared on the brand’s own Canadian website. It was rapidly removed, but an image of the listing was grabbed ahead of that.
The5Krunner has also claimed wearables commentator DC Rainmaker may be currently testing the device. A now-deleted Instagram post features a part-obscured wearable worn on DC Rainmaker’s upper arm, the site suggesting he may be currently testing the Garmin wearable alongside the Whoop 5.0.
Is it concrete proof? Absolutely not, it’s optimistic if informed speculation.
The site also captured a screengrab of a Google listing for the Cirque Smart Band, which features an image. But it appears to be a placeholder rather than an image of the actual wearable.
What the pulled product page does tell us, though, is that the Garmin Cirque will likely come in two band sizes — small/medium and large/extra large. And that its two colors are Black and French Grey.
These wearables can typically be worn either on the wrist or the upper arm. Or even the waist, torso or leg, in the case of the Whoop 5.0.
The curious element of the recent proliferation of screenless wearables is they often don’t approach their target audience in the same way Whoop originally did.
Whoop was primarily a recovery tool in its early years, letting athletes avoid overtraining while pushing for fitness improvements. The series has since developed into more of an all-round wellness tool, with hardware that incorporates ECG readings and irregular heart rate notifications.
When I talked to Polar CEO Sander Herring last year, he said a key part of the appeal of these new wearables is in letting folks get away from screens.
Recent shifts in Garmin’s feature set also suggest this Cirque Smart Band may be more of a holistic health wearable than one for the brand’s traditional hardcore athletic crowd. Earlier this month Garmin announced nutrition tracking for subscribers to the Connect+ platform.
And the Cirque Smart Band won’t even be Garmin’s only screen-free tracker. It also released the Garmin Index Sleep Monitor in 2025, a dedicated sleep band designed to be worn on the upper arm.
When might the Garmin Cirque Smart Band emerge? The pulled listing on Garmin’s website suggested availability in “4-5 months,” suggesting a release in May or June. However some believe it could be announced as soon as February, which would make sense given setting up a webpage listing for the Cirque almost half a year early seems unlikely.