Garmin is building a Pro version of the CIRQA, its screenless health band. The evidence isn't a render or a retail listing. It's sitting in Garmin Connect right now.
References to a CIRQA Smart Band Pro turned up in the app's code, spotted by Gadgets & Wearables in versions 5.28.1 and 5.29. The detail that makes this more than a naming slip: the plain CIRQA Smart Band appears separately in the very same strings. Garmin isn't renaming the $199.99 tracker it launched in July. It's building a second one alongside it.
Here's what the code reveals, and what a new regulatory filing suggests about timing.
Two Buttons, Two Jobs
The original CIRQA has one button. The new tutorial text keeps telling users to press or hold "either button," and it distinguishes between an Activity Button and a Controls Button.
That's a meaningful change for a device with no display. One button on a screenless band has to do everything through timing: a press, a double press, a long hold. Adding a second physical control splits the load, so activities get their own trigger and alarms, shortcuts, and assistance get another.
The code also describes holding the Controls Button to trigger assistance, with the band confirming out loud after the fact.
A Band That Talks to You
This is the part that separates the Pro from everything else Garmin sells right now.
The tutorial strings reference adjusting volume levels using the side buttons and hearing daily stats or status confirmations spoken aloud. There's also text about a spoken confirmation, like "Canceled," after a canceled action.
That points to one of three things: a small built-in speaker, a microphone, or audio routed through connected headphones. Garmin hasn't said, because Garmin hasn't announced the product.
If it's a speaker, this is a genuinely different interaction model. Screenless trackers have always pushed every detail onto your phone, which was the biggest complaint in our own CIRQA review after a week of daily wear. Audio would let the band answer questions on its own.
A Filing Landed the Same Day
While the app code was making the rounds, a new Garmin listing appeared in Indonesia's SDPPI certification database, published September 10, 2026, under model number A05293.
Regulatory databases rarely publish marketing names. They use generic descriptions like "Fitness Product" next to a raw model code, so there's no way to confirm from the filing alone that A05293 is the CIRQA Smart Band Pro. Garmin registers watches, bike computers, and accessories under similar titles all the time.
The timing is the interesting part. A filing showing up in the same 24 hours as app code for an unannounced product is what hardware moving toward distribution looks like.
The SmO2 Question
the5krunner raised the possibility that the Pro could carry an SmO2 (muscle oxygen) sensor, which is worth addressing directly because it's speculative.
SmO2 in a wrist-worn or band-worn form factor is a hard measurement. It needs deeper tissue penetration than optical heart rate, and accuracy depends heavily on placement. Garmin has never shipped a consumer SmO2 sensor. Adding one to a $200-class tracker would be a much bigger story than a second button.
What the code supports is more modest: new interaction hardware plus a health sensor Garmin hasn't shipped before. Read the sensor claims as an open question until an FCC filing or a product page settles it.
Why Audio Is the Right Bet Here
Garmin's CIRQA pitch is tracking without a screen on your wrist. The trade has always been interaction: you get the data, but checking it means pulling out your phone.
r/Garmin is full of threads asking what the CIRQA is even for, and the answer tends to be "Garmin's health metrics without wearing a watch to work." Those users aren't asking for a display. They're asking for a device that doesn't feel passive.
Audio answers that. Spoken daily stats and a volume control mean the band can report in without a screen, and a second button means you can start and stop things without a phone. Both changes point the same direction: making the screenless format less dependent on the phone in your pocket.
Where This Fits in the CIRQA Lineup
Garmin is clearly treating CIRQA as a product family rather than a single band. In the last two months alone:
- CIRQA Smart Band launched in July as the screenless tracker
- CIRQA Smart Ring surfaced under model code AA5220 on September 3, with a certification filing that later disappeared from the database
- A stable 3.20 update for the band landed September 2
- Now the CIRQA Smart Band Pro shows up in app code
That's a band, a ring, and a presumably higher-tier band, all moving through leaks and filings within a single quarter.
Bottom Line
Nothing here is official. What we have is app code naming a CIRQA Smart Band Pro in two consecutive Garmin Connect versions, tutorial text describing two buttons and spoken feedback, and a September 10 Indonesian filing for model A05293 that fits the timeline.
The screenless category is the one place Garmin has room to add hardware without fighting its own watch lineup, so expect the Pro to be priced above the $199.99 CIRQA. An FCC filing is the next real checkpoint, and it usually lands weeks before a launch.
Sources: Gadgets & Wearables teardown of Garmin Connect 5.28.1 and 5.29 (September 10, 2026), Garmin News analysis of the same code plus the Indonesia SDPPI listing for model A05293 (September 10, 2026), the5krunner's SmO2 speculation (September 10, 2026), our Garmin CIRQA review (August 7, 2026) and CIRQA Smart Ring leak coverage (August 13, 2026).