Hidden gems
Good watch faces and apps that almost nobody has found yet: fewer than 30 reviews, a clear description, a developer who keeps it up to date and an idea of its own. Sorted by score.
Watch faces
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.
Rootline
shell terminal session
Turns your watch face into a shell session: a prompt types a command when you raise your wrist, then heart rate, steps, Body Battery, weather and more appear line by line with sparklines.
Petbook
virtual pet fed by steps and workouts that grows and can die
A virtual pet on your watch face, fed by your steps and workouts: hatch an egg and raise a cat, dog, panda or dragon that grows with every active day. Skip sport for 14 days and it dies. A free edition exists.
Analog Inkblot
Rorschach ink blots, free version
The free version of the ink-blot analog face: 3 greyscale blot patterns, blue lance hands with a black seconds hand, the date with weekday and a few data fields.
Faces for Places Lite
animated pixel-art London through the day
An animated pixel-art London through your day: the sky follows your real sunrise and sunset, and rain, snow or storms where you are appear on the watch too.
Pixel Garden
pixel garden blooms with hourly steps
Move a little every hour and watch your garden bloom: every hour you reach the hourly step target grows a flower, and your daily step goal brings the tree to full bloom. Nothing ever wilts.
Groove: Retro 70s Rainbow Ribbons
rainbow ribbon that reties every hour
A retro 70s face: a rainbow ribbon in mustard, orange, terracotta, sage and plum ties itself into a new knot every hour, with big rounded digits on a cream badge. One-time unlock after a 48-hour trial.
Carbon Satellite
wandering-hour mechanism
A wandering-hour mechanism for AMOLED screens: four satellites carry the hour groups and the highlighted hour is read against a fixed minute scale. Nine neon color palettes.
Stirra Koppel — Watch Face
horse paddock scene, values as objects
A comic paddock scene for riders where every value is an object in the picture, showing how your horse's week is going. Free, works without an account and fills with your rides when paired with Stirra.
Vocabo Deck-Learn a language, one glance at a time
learn a language word by word at each glance
Learn a language one glance at a time: each look at your watch shows a word in the language you are learning with its translation. 12 languages with 400 essential everyday words each.
Kichijitsu
Japanese lucky-day calendar
A Japanese lucky-day calendar face that tells you at a glance whether today is Taian or another auspicious day, in three designs such as a shrine-seal page and a moon over the night sea.
SundialClock
real sundial solar time
A real sundial computed for where you are: hour lines for your latitude and a shadow that follows the real sun, showing true solar time with its seasonal differences.
Walkies — Pet Dog Watch Face, Build Your Dog
build your own animated dog
Build your own dog that sits under the clock: it blinks, tilts its head, wags and asks for walkies, or follows your step goal, waking as your day builds and celebrating when you reach it.
Whiskers — Pet Cat Watch Face, Build Your Cat
build your own animated cat
Build your own cat that sits under the clock: it blinks, flicks an ear, washes and hunts, or follows your step goal, waking as your day builds and purring when you reach it.
Ridgeborn
mountain scene that changes with the day
An illustrated Carpathian mountain landscape that moves with your day: dawn lights the sky, daylight shows the ridgelines, dusk brings warm colors and the moon takes over at night.
Vault Watch
vault dweller shows your energy per limb
A retro-futuristic terminal where a vault dweller fills with your Body Battery and a condition bar beside each limb tracks stress, active minutes, calories, steps and floors.
CyberWatch 2077
cyberpunk body scan charged by Body Battery
A neon cyberpunk biomonitor: your character is a body scan charged by your Body Battery, with an implant bar per limb for stress, active minutes, calories, steps and floors.
Isotrail
contour map trail lit by your steps
A hiking-map face: the whole dial is a contour map with a dotted trail from trailhead to summit, and your steps light up the trail. Reach the summit flag and you hit your step goal.
Golf Caddie Alpine
golf course conditions in an alpine scene
A golf face set on an alpine course that tells you how the course plays today: it works out how much further the ball carries in thin mountain air from today's pressure and temperature, plus wind and more.
RevDay Pro: speedometer for your steps
speedometer dial for your daily steps
A speedometer-style dial for your day: one long needle shows how far you are toward your step goal and keeps reading up to twice the goal, with laps counted beyond. The exact number and a large time are shown too.
CatPawNight-IOV Animated Cat Halloween
animated cat counting paws instead of steps
An animated black cat sits at the window and its eyes follow a paw trail that grows around the rim with every step, so you count in paws. Includes a moon calendar and free data fields.
Step Odyssey
walk real long-distance trails with your steps
Your daily steps move you along real long-distance trails such as the Camino, Route 66, the Great Wall and Everest Base Camp, 31 routes in all, with a stamp for every stage. A free edition exists.
Glass Diorama TR
hand-painted diorama with live weather
A hand-painted diorama window with live weather and the real sun and moon, a large clock, data fields and a glass goal vial. 14-day free trial, then a one-time unlock.
Glass Diorama
hand-painted live weather diorama
A hand-painted diorama window that lives on your wrist: the sky follows the real sun and moon, and your weather comes alive with clouds, rain, snow, fog and lightning, above a large clock and a goal vial.
Flapline
split-flap clock that really flips
A split-flap clock that really flips: raise your wrist and the cards fall over the hinge, while a departure board below shows what is coming, like sunset, rain, your goal time and battery.
Pumpfoil
pumpfoil statement face
A face for pump foilers: a wireframe pump foiler rides across your dial while wave rings roll out from the mast and water streams toward the foil. The first face from the makers of the Pumpfoilytics app.
Biathlon Elegant
biathlon target dial with magazine battery
A biathlon-inspired analog face: the dial is a shooting target, the battery a five-round magazine, and five small targets for move, exercise, steps, floors and more turn white when you hit your daily goals.
LiftSync Blueprint — Watch Face
next workout as a technical drawing with plates
The main set of your next workout drawn like a technical drawing: the bar, the plates on each side and the target weight, with the plate maths already done. Free; pairs with LiftSync.
LiftSync Platform — Watch Face
training week drawn as a loaded barbell scene
Your training week drawn as a barbell: plates show the sessions done and still open, with today's plan day under the clock. Free; works with the LiftSync app.
Step Odyssey Free
walk the Camino with your steps, free edition
The free edition of Step Odyssey: walk the Camino Portugués from Porto to Santiago with your daily steps and collect a stamp for every stage.
Astral
moon phase, zodiac and daily oracle
A celestial dial with an astronomical moon phase, your zodiac constellation and a daily oracle reading for love, work and health, all computed on the watch from your birth date.
HoraClock
historical temporal hours
Shows the hours as they were counted before clocks, computed from your local sunrise and sunset: Roman temporal hours, canonical prayer hours and three more historical ways of counting time.
Tidewell
tide clock hand
Turns your watch face into a tide clock: one hand shows the hours to high and low water, with the tide curve for the next 12 or 24 hours below the time. Needs no account and no internet; you enter one known high water.
TrueGlobeClock
time told by the turning Earth globe
Tells the time with the Earth turning in space: a globe seen from above your latitude turns once a day on its real axis, and your position on a 24-hour belt is the time, with the real night for today.
Golf Caddie Links
golf course conditions in a links scene
The Golf Caddie readings in a seaside links scene with dunes and fescue: wind speed and an arrow showing where the wind blows to, plus today's playing conditions. Same features as Golf Caddie, new view.
RevDay: speedometer for your steps
speedometer dial for your steps
The lighter version of RevDay: a speedometer-style dial where one needle shows your progress toward the daily step goal, up to twice the goal, with the exact number and a large time.
GridPoint Tactical
fighter-jet cockpit HUD
A fighter-jet cockpit display inspired by F-22 and F-35 avionics: ultra-bold time in tactical target brackets with vector-style biometric and performance data around it.
Pawbeat
living pet that reacts to sleep, steps and Body Battery
A living pet that shows how your day is going: it sleeps when you sleep, dozes on the charger, celebrates your step goal and yawns when Body Battery runs low. Eight animals, four art styles, three layouts.
Graffiti: Street Art
graffiti bubble-letter time
A street-art face: your time as bold spray-paint bubble letters on a painted city wall, with date and fitness data. A one-time unlock after a free 48-hour trial.
Kathode
photoreal nixie tubes
The time on four glowing nixie tubes with the unlit cathodes faintly visible, a small VFD strip with the date, a base plate with four data windows and two more fields beside the tubes.
Graticule Tube
nixie tubes in a brass panel
Four photorealistic nixie tubes in an engraved brass instrument panel, inspired by Soviet IN-14 tubes, with a bar tube for Body Battery and brass plates for date and weather.
Tide 4a Fish
solunar fishing windows with tide
A fishing face with the day's solunar feeding windows, wind and rain along the day axis and the tide on one screen, all computed offline on the watch. Free with all features and no ads.
Tide Almanac
tides drawn like a 70s surf almanac
The tide, sun and moon drawn like a 70s surf almanac: a tide band for the last and next 6 hours shows whether the water is coming or going. Works without an account.
SnowFall
snow pile that grows as you walk
A cosy Christmas face with falling snowflakes and a snow pile that grows as you walk toward your step goal, with a festive digital clock or a classic analog dial.
Goofy Monster
goofy monster digits with moods
Big goofy digits that turn the time into a mischievous character with six moods such as smug, wink or sleepy, switched by hand or automatically by time of day and battery.
Jeffré Pixel
8-bit adventure with hearts and XP
Your day as an 8-bit adventure: hearts show Body Battery, an XP bar fills with your steps, coins are calories and the level is floors, in four game worlds with a pixel landscape.
Pixel Desktop Watch Face
retro computer desktop
Your watch as the desktop of an imaginary old computer: the time in a clock window and your steps in a file-copy progress bar that tells you how many minutes of walking are left to your goal.
Apps, widgets and data fields
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.
Iron Beat
barbell-to-music class tracker
An activity app for barbell-to-music group classes such as BODYPUMP: it records the whole class as one continuous workout with heart rate and calories, no GPS needed.
Bonkline
carbohydrate tank and bonk timer
Keeps a live estimate of your carbohydrate tank during endurance activities: it works out what you burn at your heart rate, adds what you have eaten and tells you how long until the tank runs low and when to eat next.
All-time Max. Heart Rate
all-time max heart rate
Records and shows your all-time maximum heart rate, so you can set the Max HR setting correctly and get more accurate heart-rate zones.
Matchbook
W' balance as matches
A cycling data field that shows your anaerobic reserve (W') second by second from your power meter: it counts the matches you have burnt, how many are left and how long you can hold your current power.
Curetime
concrete pour evaporation planner
A concrete pour planner: from the forecast air temperature, humidity and wind plus your concrete temperature it computes the evaporation rate of the fresh surface and gives a plain GO, CAUTION or STOP for now and every coming hour.
Ebbcast
Body Battery forecast
Learns how your Body Battery changes through the day, separately for workdays and weekends, and forecasts what you will have left at bedtime, with an alert before you drop below your threshold.
Fixpoint
position from compass bearings
Turns compass bearings into a position: aim the watch at two or three known summits, towers or buoys and it works out where you stand, with an error ellipse. It also works the other way round to locate a smoke plume or a lost bag.
Courtbeat Pro
tennis stroke recognition
The full Courtbeat tennis tracker: everything in the free app plus pages that show how you really play, such as the session as a colored timeline of rallies, drills, serves and match play with their strokes.
BurnBudget
calorie budget without food logging
Shows how many calories you can still eat today at a single glance, without logging any food: the daily budget is worked out from your Garmin calorie burn minus your deficit goal.
Sun Window
sun window open or closed
Is the sun high enough right now? One word on your watch, OPEN or CLOSED, based on whether the sun is at or above 45 degrees, with the two midday hours used on low-sun days. Nothing to buy and no account needed.
Rivalsplit
live gap to rivals in races
Turns official checkpoint timing into live race information: see how far you are ahead of or behind the competitors that matter to you. Only for events shared on live.eqtiming.com.
Truepace
pace adjusted for hills and heat
Shows what your running pace is really worth: it adjusts for the gradient from your own altitude data and for heat and humidity, giving one number for the pace on flat ground on a cool day at the same effort.
Recovery HR Trend
recovery HR trend over weeks
Measures your recovery heart rate after an activity and stores a trend over up to 9 weeks, which newer watches record but do not show as a trend.
Hushwait
sleep training timer for parents
A sleep-training timer for parents: pick a method and the watch counts down silently in the dark to the next check, and logs crying time, checks and wakings every night.
Peakflow Bus
next bus after your hike
When is the next bus after your hike, and when do you have to leave? Shows the nearest stop with walking time, lines and destinations, and a 'go in 8 min' countdown, with real-time delays where the operator provides them.
YAMAKAGE
terrain-aware mountain sunset
Works out the true sunrise and sunset in the mountains: it scans the terrain up to 30 km around you and compares the paths of the sun and moon with the mountain heights to predict when the light really goes.
TrailRace+ PRO
trail race cutoffs and route
Puts the whole trail or ultra race route on your watch with cutoffs, required pace, aid stations and fuel reminders, and knows where on the course you are. 14 days free, then a one-time unlock.
CardiacDriftLive
live cardiac drift
Tracks cardiac drift (aerobic decoupling) live during your run or ride, showing whether your heart rate to pace relationship is holding up, not just a rising heart rate.
MeteoSense
warns before weather sensitivity
Watches your barometric pressure, heart rate, stress and Body Battery in the background and warns when your personal risk of feeling worse, such as headache or fatigue, starts climbing, learning how you react to the weather.
Ninety
Schengen 90/180-day counter
Counts the days you spend in each country and how many you have left: the rolling Schengen 90/180 window, the 183-day tax rule and the US Substantial Presence Test side by side, with one-tap check-in and check-out.
Rime
frost forecast for tonight
Forecasts frost tonight: on clear, still nights car windows and grass get colder than the air, so Rime works out that difference hour by hour and tells you whether you will be scraping the windscreen in the morning.
Brickwise
multisport race on watches without multisport
Records a whole triathlon, duathlon or aquathlon as one activity on watches without a multisport profile, with its own lap for each leg and transition and a planned finish time.
Courtbeat
tennis stroke and score tracker
Wear the watch on your racket arm, press START and play: Courtbeat counts and names your strokes, keeps the score when you want it and shows afterwards how long you really played and how many forehands, backhands, serves and volleys you hit.
Raysid for Garmin (unofficial)
live gamma dose from a Raysid dosimeter
An unofficial companion for the Raysid gamma dosimeter: shows the dose rate and count rate live over Bluetooth, with vibration alarms, short charts, averaging and GPS radiation mapping.
Barocast
barometer that explains itself
A barometer that explains what the numbers mean: it removes the daily pressure tide that makes normal afternoon dips look like bad weather, reduces to sea level and turns the trend into a forecast.
Trail Weather Pro
ensemble forecast confidence
Blends several weather models into one ensemble forecast for hiking, trail running and cycling and draws the spread as a confidence band, so you see whether a rain shower is likely or just one model's guess. One-time purchase.
CastXM
pixel pet raised from egg to elder
A pixel pet for your watch: pick an egg, keep it warm until it hatches, name your pet and raise it through five life stages from baby to elder. Feed, play, bathe and put it to sleep; rare eggs can hatch a shiny pet.
FTMSStepper
smart stair stepper link
Connects to Bluetooth FTMS stair-stepper machines and records their speed, steps, cadence, power, resistance, calories and more inside a standard Garmin activity.
SpeedoRun
car speedometer for running
Turns your watch into a car-style dashboard for running: a round speedometer with a big live speed number, a colored tick ring and a needle that follows your heart rate. Made for AMOLED screens.
GC Demand & Fueling
power-based fueling
Shows the carbohydrate demand of your cycling effort live, second by second, estimated from your own numbers. Requires a power meter or a trainer that sends power.
Peakflow Intervalle
interval compared at the same spot
Compares your current interval with the previous one at exactly the same spot: '-0:03' means you are three seconds faster than last time, with green and red and a ghost-runner bar.
Wee Hours
one-handed newborn baby tracker
A baby tracker for parents of newborns: log breastfeeds, bottles, diapers and sleep with one hand in the dark, and see at a glance when the baby last ate and on which side.
Halflight
hike turnaround time
Records your climb as you walk it, works out what the way back will cost at your own measured pace and counts down to the last minute you can turn around and still be off the mountain before dark.
Radar
GPS treasure hunt game
A GPS treasure hunt: it hides a treasure in a random direction and distance around you and gives you only warmer or colder vibrations, ticking like a Geiger counter as you close in. Every find earns XP.
Waymark
ETA with climbing
Tells you when you will really arrive on a hilly route: it uses the Alpine club walking-time formula that counts climbing and descending, learns your own pace and includes your aid stations and cut-offs.
Outdoor Readiness — Training Conditions Score
outdoor training readiness score
A 0-100 readiness score that answers whether it is safe and comfortable to exercise outside right now, combining heat stress, real-time air quality, rain and more, green when conditions are great and red when they are not.
Thresh
guided threshold field test
Guides you through a field test for your lactate threshold heart rate, threshold pace and FTP, and turns the result into training zones. Follows Joe Friel's 30-minute test, with alternatives.
HIIT HR Recovery (Intra-Workout)
HR recovery inside HIIT
Measures your heart-rate recovery during the rest steps of a HIIT workout, with a recovery rate for each rest so you can compare recoveries at different intensities.
SkiTour+
ski touring field
A full-screen data field for ski touring, splitboarding, winter hiking and mountaineering with a steady vertical speed and everything you need on the way up in big, readable digits.
Flipturn
CSS send-off clock
A swim data field that turns your Critical Swim Speed into a live target: pace per 100 of the last length, how far ahead or behind CSS you are and SWOLF with a fatigue trend, plus an open-water mode.
SETLIST
live setlist and chords for musicians
Setlists, chords and a live time-remaining timer for musicians on stage: the main screen shows the song number, title, chords and the time left in the set. Up to 5 setlists with 30 songs each.
Evensplit
ghost of your previous lap
Compares the lap you are running with your previous and average lap: it keeps a ghost of the last lap, shows second by second how far ahead or behind you are and predicts your lap time. Works for any sport with laps.
StatiQ
apnea breath-hold trainer
Guides dry static breath-hold training on land: calm breathing, timed exhale and inhale cues and holds that grow block by block, plus CO2 and O2 tables computed from your measured max. Vibrations mark every phase, so you can keep your eyes closed.
ARGUS
orienteering area check
An orienteering data field that checks whether you are inside a predefined area: transfer a boundary from the phone app before the start and the watch alerts you without the phone. Garmin support is experimental.
Rucking Calories 2
rucking energy model
Estimates energy use for rucking with a validated calculation for carrying weight, so you can check whether Garmin's calorie figure holds up under a pack. Add it to a walk activity.
Power Color Field
live CdA and drafting
A power data field whose whole background takes the color of your current power zone, plus a live estimate of your aerodynamic drag (CdA) and the watts you save while drafting.