The best Garmin watch faces and apps
Every week we rate 2,865 Connect IQ watch faces, apps, widgets and data fields and pick the ones worth installing.
Zenith
A small real-time planetarium: the planets, moon and sun rise as they do in the sky. Also weather forecast, tides, over 90 data options per view and touch shortcuts. Mostly free; some features need a key after a 5-day trial.
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.
8.6Goals
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.
8.5Rondo
Well-made customizable digital face; the layout type is common in the store.
A refined digital face with 8 customizable data fields, 4 time and 2 data typefaces, three time sizes and 31 colour themes including light backgrounds, plus full colour control. Paid, with a free demo version to try first.
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
50 faces + 50 apps →Few reviews, a real idea and a careful developer. These deserve far more attention than the store gives them.
Faces for Places Lite
Pixel-art London whose sky follows real sunrise, sunset and weather; rare concept.
Free pixel-art London whose sky follows your real sunrise and sunset and shows your local rain, snow or storms. Fireworks when you reach your step, floors or intensity goal, plus up to three data slots.
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.
Silverback Face
Gorilla that grows from strength training and rest; rare idea.
A small gorilla that grows from your strength training and the rest between sessions; strong weeks turn his back silver. Four data fields, nine themes and a night mode. Free for 14 days, then a one-time purchase.
Capri Face
Ibex climbing famous peaks with every floor climbed; rare idea.
A Nubian ibex climbs famous peaks, from the Eiffel Tower to Everest, with every floor you climb, and lies down on tired days. Four data fields, nine themes and a night mode. Free for 14 days, then a one-time purchase.
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.
Time To Change
Period product change timer and cycle tracker; nothing similar.
A period product timer and cycle tracker: counts the time since your last change of pad, tampon, cup, disc or period underwear and reminds you, with product-specific limits. Runs fully on the watch, no account. Free.
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.