Varia™

Garmin · 4.4 ★ · FREE

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Description

When paired with a compatible Garmin Varia radar device¹, the Varia app has the tools you need to ride with confidence. Using the Varia app, you can:
• Be alerted right on your phone when approaching vehicles are within 140 meters behind your bicycle.
• View color-coded alerts based on surrounding traffic: Green means you’re all clear, yellow means a vehicle is approaching and red means a vehicle is coming at you quickly and you should take caution.
• Receive tone and vibration alerts for approaching vehicles even when you’re not looking at your phone.

With a compatible Garmin Varia Radar Camera Tail Light or Garmin Varia Vue Camera Headlight, you can:
• Set the camera in the best position for capturing videos and photos.
• Record videos or take photos and save them while riding with a simple button press on your phone.
• Automatically record videos of incidents and save the video footage with the Incident Recording feature.

With a Varia Vue Camera Headlight, you can:
• Configure light mode configurations for your headlight.
• Add an optional Vault subscription, which automatically backs up your Varia Vue videos and provides easy access in the Varia app for searching, filtering and sharing.

By adding the Varia eRTL615 Radar Tail Light for eBikes, you can:
• Configure and edit light mode configurations for your tail light.

Easy to Use
Pairing your Garmin Varia devices with the app is quick and easy. Once you set them up, the Varia app will automatically recognize your devices.

Even if you already have a Varia device paired with a compatible Garmin device or head unit, the Varia app provides additional awareness and peace of mind while riding.

¹ Compatible devices are the Varia RearVue 820, Varia RVR315 Rearview Radar, Varia RTL515 Radar Tail Light, Varia RCT715 Radar Camera Tail Light, Varia eRTL615 Radar Tail Light for eBikes and Varia Vue Camera Headlight.

Developer

Garmin

Developer ID: 411046952

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What's New

Version 5.1.1 · Mar 18, 2026

This version of the Varia app adds support for the Varia RearVue 820 Radar Tail Light, including the ability to view the size and position of approaching vehicles in the app. It also includes bug fixes and performance improvements to help you ride confidently with Varia.

Ratings & Reviews

App Store

4.4

294 ratings

N/A downloads

Google Play

4.2

1,190 ratings

100,000+ downloads

5★

67%

4★

15%

3★

2★

1★

11%

Recent Reviews

Mike Candahl

Google Play

game changer!

May 30, 2026

Dustin Waller

Google Play

can't imagine riding without a radar after using one. please add an overlay mode for use over gps or other apps.

May 26, 2026

Timothy Nelson

Google Play

Can't imagine riding without it.

May 15, 2026

Jimmyelp

App Store

It definitely works as advertised

I only used it one time so far and it definitely works. I love that I can listen to my music and run a couple apps in the background. By running this app to let me know that cars are coming behind me by sound and visual. It definitely helps Keeping me safe . And I use an iPhone 14 Pro Max it works great and only took five minutes to set up.

May 11, 2026

Forest Risley

App Store

Please develop an Apple Watch version

Please add the Apple Watch

May 10, 2026

Aaron

Google Play

Time zone / dst not synched correctly to Varia Vue. It is always on hour behind in cest now.

May 9, 2026

curtis dickinson

Google Play

I'm deaf and this works for me. need I say more?

May 6, 2026

Littlebusby

App Store

Simple app that is easy to use

Good app to simply sync the Varia and look out for cars, as well as device manuals.

Apr 11, 2026

kpd33rd

App Store

Used to be great

Most recent software really downgraded. Used to run in the background no problem and duck your audio to play the car alert. The app now is only in background maybe 50% of the time and no longer supports reducing media sound just for the alert. Much less functional. Would also be great it if played an all clear tone, the way my wahoo head unit does when cars aren’t detected anymore. The rapidly approaching vehicle alert sounds too similar to the normal alert.

Mar 2, 2026

User12345678abcd

App Store

Worked better in prior version

On February 18th the app updated and it now overpowers my music so that I can barely hear it any time the app is on. If I turn the volume up, I can hear the music, but the traffic notification sounds are unacceptably loud. Not sure if there is any way to adjust the volume of the notifications, but it should not take control of my iPhone sound level. Haven’t used the radar on my last two rides because of this software update. 😢

Feb 22, 2026