The best Garmin watch faces and apps
Every week we rate 2,845 Connect IQ watch faces, apps, widgets and data fields and pick the ones worth installing.
Zenith
A little real-time planetarium on your wrist: the planets, moon and sun rise as they do in the sky. Plus weather forecast and overview, tides, over 90 data options per view and touch functions. Mostly free.
Top watch faces this week
All 100 →Numbers 2 to 9 of this week's ranking, with their score out of 10.
9.1The Laziest Watchface Ever Created
rewards you for sitting still
A fun face that motivates you to be lazy: the bar fills up while you are not moving, with the goal to sit still for at least 2 hours. You can also set other goals and choose your stats and colors.
8.9Firmament
night sky with meteors, aurora and ISS
The night sky on your wrist: planets in real time, meteor showers, an aurora early warning, sun and moon, the brightest stars and ISS transits, plus weather, tides and over 100 data options.
8.7Seasons
design changes with the seasons
A face that changes its look with every season, with many options and customizations. Free with basic stats; advanced stats and goal gauges need the PRO license after a 1-hour trial. Seasons Premium offers more styles.
8.7Rondo
refined typography-led data face
A modern digital face with 8 customizable fields, 4 time typefaces, 2 data typefaces, three time sizes and 31 curated color themes, from minimal to bright. A free demo lets you try it before buying.
8.6Goals
popular goals face
One of the most popular watch faces: all the stats you need in a beautifully crafted layout, with goal bars, a wide range of stats, colors to your taste, seconds and AM/PM options, AOD modes and a night battery saver.
8.6Photo BW
your own photos in black and white
Put your own photos on your watch in black and white, with many options. Free with basic stats and one picture; Pro adds more stats and options, Max lets you save up to 7 photos. 1-hour trial for Pro.
8.6Photo Pro
your own colour photos
Put your own color photos on your watch with many options. Free with basic stats and one picture; Pro adds more stats, Max lets you save up to 7 photos. A one-time purchase after a 1-hour trial.
8.6Stride I
hourly activity instead of daily steps
A face that motivates you to move every hour, not just once a day: see at a glance how many hours you have been active and set your own hourly step goals. Colors and stats are customizable.
Sponsored
All sponsored →Paid placements, chosen by the developers. They are not part of our ranking and do not change any score.
Petalia Pastel
Elegant pastel watch face with 24 data fields and 14 color themes: light by day, gently dark when you sleep.
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Hidden gems
All 100 →Few reviews, a real idea and a careful developer. These deserve far more attention than the store gives them.
Neon Pulse
neon-sign vitals dial
A vitals dial built like a neon sign: a live heart-rate trace glows through the center, the time runs the same gradient and a neon goal ring fills as you go. Free to try for 48 hours.
Analog Inkblot
Rorschach ink blots on an analog dial
An analog face with Rorschach-style ink blots: 30 symmetrical blot designs at the edge, across the dial or in the center, in greyscale or one of 13 colors, with clear hands and three data fields.
Halloween Spider Web
spider weaves a web with your steps
A Halloween face that turns your daily goal into a spider web: with every step the spider lays the spokes and weaves the spiral, and at your goal it catches its prey.
Halloween Pumpkin
pumpkin ripens and gets carved with your steps
A Halloween pumpkin that comes alive as you move: it ripens from green to orange, gets a face sketched and carved, and the candle inside lights up when you hit your goal.
Cave Environment Metrics
environment for cavers
A data field for cavers that analyzes your watch's raw sensor data where GPS fails, giving a picture of the cave environment together with an efficiency analysis of your movements.
Sprayday
spray weather window with Delta T
A spray weather window for farmers: works out Delta T for every forecast hour, checks it against official bands and adds the wind, the inversion risk around sunrise and sunset and the rain-free time after spraying.
SkiTour+ PRO
ski touring slope angle
The extended SkiTour+ data field for ski touring and splitboarding: everything in the free version plus the slope angle of the terrain along your planned route in color bands.
TerraRun
run territory battle
Turns every run into a territory battle: the area you enclose while running becomes yours on the map until someone runs it back. The field records your track and uploads it when the phone is back in range.
Top apps, widgets and data fields
All 100 →
Walk With Frodo
Walk with Frodo and Sam to Mount Doom: your daily steps carry you 2,896 km (1,800 miles) along the journey, with 66 milestones from the books and movies and information about each place.
Rain
A lightweight rain widget with a graph of the coming precipitation, faster than radar image widgets, with precise forecasts for the next 1 to 2 hours in many countries. A free basic version is included.
Fat Burner
Shows the fat and carbohydrate calories you burn during an activity, based on your heart rate zone and calories. Choose fat burner, carbs burner or both; the zones can be customized.
Tides
Free tide data on your watch, fully offline: more than 200 stations worldwide, tide highs and lows for the next 7 days, a handy glance view and several height reference options. For boating, fishing and surfing.
WHM breathing+
A breathing exercise tracker in the style of the Wim Hof method. The paid version adds a warning vibration before the end of breathing, detailed round info, adjustable vibrations and sounds, and a touchscreen lock.
HYROX Tracker: ROXZONE
A dedicated HYROX app: a true race simulation on your wrist with running legs, station paces and transition times split cleanly in one saved activity. Plan your race on your phone; one-time purchase, no subscription.
Maps4Garmin (Free) with Weather Radar (Paid)
Free live maps on your watch with no sign-up: see your location and browse the area around you. An optional yearly license adds a weather radar.
Open Weather Widget
A free widget that shows the current weather conditions from Open Weather Map. You need your own free API key from Open Weather; there is no forecast in this app.
Weather Pro Widget
Hyper-local weather from Open Weather Map in a simple, colorful graphical display, updated hourly. The optional Pro version updates every 15 minutes and adds custom locations and more.
Atmos Air Quality
Air quality on your watch: the current EU or US air quality index, hourly and 5-day forecasts, and on newer watches dust, particle, visibility and pollen forecasts.