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
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.
山水Landscape
Chinese landscape painting generated anew every day from the date
A Chinese landscape painting generated anew each day from the date, so no two days ever look alike. Sun and moon are computed for your location, with real moon phases and day, twilight and night palettes.
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.
Faces for Places Lite
pixel-art London whose sky follows real sunrise, sunset and weather
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Equestrian
your own named horse in a pixel paddock with care and riding-weather reminders
Your own pixel-art horse with coat and markings of your choice in a living paddock, plus up to three feedings a day and care reminders for farrier, deworming, vaccination and dentist. A free Lite version is available.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Windspot
24-hour wind ring for kite and wing
Wind forecast face for wing foil and kitesurf in France: a 24-hour wind ring coloured by strength, current wind and today's maximum, a 5-day chart and 301 spots, plus three data fields of your choice.
Step to Fly
step goal revealed as the butterfly life cycle
Turns your step goal into a butterfly life cycle: egg, caterpillars, chrysalis and adult appear as you walk, with no penalty for missing the goal. The full version has 11 species, a different one each day.
Santa 365 — Watch Face
Santa living through the year with a new daily scene
Santa lives all year on your watch, with a new scene each day from beach holiday to Advent calendar, a Christmas countdown and a daily quest from your Garmin goals. 7-day trial, then a one-time purchase.
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.
Sotta Goals
dachshunds running along goal lanes
Three dachshunds run round the edge in lanes for steps, weekly intensity minutes and floors, showing how close you are to each goal. Clock, date and battery in the middle. Free for 72 hours, then a one-time unlock.
Tideline
tides, solunar and light on one line
Tides, solunar periods and daylight on one 24-hour line, computed on the watch from moon and sun, no download needed. Made for Instinct and Descent G1, also on round watches. Free; extras unlock with a one-time purchase.
Skyshift
background photo follows the current weather
A face whose background photo follows your local weather: sunny sky, clouds, raindrops on glass, lightning, snow or fog, 14 photos in all. Big two-tone time, weather with high, low and rain chance, and three data fields.
Outer Wilds
pixel campfire under the stars
A pixel campsite under the stars, inspired by Outer Wilds: breathing stars, a distant planet and an animated campfire. Digital time, date, weather and battery, plus three positions with 24 selectable metrics.
OwnDial STRATA
relief landscape that grows with your steps
A sculpted graphite landscape with a copper ridge whose relief grows with your daily steps, up to 150% of your goal. Large digital time, date, battery, steps and heart rate, five backgrounds and a simplified always-on mode.
Jeffré Wetterkranz
12-hour weather forecast placed at each hour mark around the dial; own idea, few similar.
An analog face with a 12-hour weather forecast around the dial: a coloured icon and temperature at every hour mark, a temperature trend ring, current temperature in the centre and a configurable data field.
Tondo
one growing disc whose area is goal progress
One flat colour disc on a black dial whose area shows progress toward today's step, floors or intensity goal; a thin halo closes when you reach it. The time is cut out of the disc, with three disc colours to choose.
Surf Dawn: Waves, Wind & Tide Watch Face
surf conditions for the nearest of 2,500 spots
A chronograph face for surfers that picks the nearest of 2,500 spots in 63 countries and shows waves with period and swell direction, wind coloured by how it hits the beach, a 24-hour tide curve, water temperature and home time.
MyTides
digits fill with blue like a tide gauge
Turns the time into a tide gauge: the digits fill with blue from low to high tide at your spot, with tidal coefficient, moon phase, countdown to the next tide and the next two tides. French coasts only; menus in French.
Apps, widgets and data fields
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Ballroom Dance Tracker
tells dancing from pausing at ballroom events
Tells dancing from pausing by wrist movement, tuned per dance from foxtrot and waltz to jive and salsa, and saves how long you danced and paused as a dance activity in Garmin Connect. For class, practice or parties.
DreamCue
lucid dream training with REM-timed cues
Lucid dream training: random reality checks and short exercises during the day and, at night, gentle vibrations timed to estimated REM sleep from heart rate and HRV, with a morning summary. Free during the beta.
WaySense
arrival before dark or rain
A data field that estimates your arrival time from your moving pace and usual stops, and tells you whether you will arrive before dark or in the rain. Works with a loaded course, an out-and-back or an entered distance.
Sun Window
whether the sun is at or above 45 degrees right now
Shows in one word whether the sun is high enough now (at or above 45 degrees, or the midday hours in winter), with today's opening and closing times. Considers UV and cloud from watch weather. Free, nothing locked.
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.
Run/Walk/Climb/Bike HUD
aircraft HUD for sports
A full-screen data field styled like an aircraft head-up display, with scales for pace, altitude, heading, heart rate with zones and inclination. A Pro version adds colours and configurable scales such as speed units or distance to target.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wine Lovers
offline wine atlas of regions and grapes
A free offline wine atlas for the watch: browse continents, countries and wine regions down to grape varieties and appellations, built from a sommelier's experience and institutional sources, with navigation made for the wrist.
FTMSClimber
smart stair climber link
Connects to FTMS-compatible Bluetooth stair climbers and records step rate, total steps, floors, elevation gain, calories and time inside a standard Garmin activity. Paid; it runs for 10 minutes unregistered, with a 14-day trial.
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.
Your body knows the right pace
avoid the grey zone pace
A data field that guides endurance pacing by DFA alpha 1 from heart rhythm, aiming at a value around 0.85 so easy training stays in the calm aerobic, fat-burning zone and out of the stressful gray zone.
Zeeland OWS
open-water swim tides for Zeeland
For open water swimmers in Zeeland: tide direction, current water level and the next high or low tide from Rijkswaterstaat predictions, a 7-day tide table, water temperature and the weather at swim level, even without the phone.
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.
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.
Clear Mornings
logs alcohol-free days and compares nights
Logs alcohol-free days in two button presses on the watch, grows a picture through 12 levels with your streak, and compares night heart rate, stress and Body Battery after sober and drinking nights. Free.
Iron Beat
activity app for barbell-to-music group classes
An activity app for barbell-to-music group classes such as BODYPUMP: one press starts a continuous session recorded with heart rate and calories, no GPS needed. Large timer and live heart rate on screen.
Nearby Flights
aircraft flying around you
Shows up to 20 aircraft flying near you: callsign, route, altitude, speed and distance when available, a direction arrow and radar view, filters for civil, private or military traffic, flight progress and aircraft photos.
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.
LibriVox
LibriVox public domain audiobooks offline
Brings over 20,000 free public-domain LibriVox audiobooks in more than 50 languages to the watch: download once and listen offline while running or hiking, without the phone. 14-day free trial, then a one-time purchase; no subscription.
GuMo Morning Report
morning report of your night
A morning report on seven pages: estimated sleep window and recovery, Body Battery recharge, resting heart rate against your 7-day average, a training tip from rest day to intervals, the weather and a daily quote.
Ritmik
running music from the watch
Starts the music of the Ritmik app on your iPhone from the watch, matched to your pace: START, STOP and laps control the music inside Garmin's own Run activity. Shows the music tempo and the current training plan step.
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.
FG Vector
golf practice numbers from an iPhone app on the wrist
Shows golf practice numbers from the FG Vector iPhone app on the wrist after each shot: estimated carry, club and ball speed, smash factor, apex, launch angle and shot shape. Practice swings without a ball are kept out of the stats.
Bike Light Control
bike light control
Controls an iGPSPORT VS1800S bike light from your bike computer or watch during the ride, using the iGPSPORT protocol. Other iGPSPORT lights may work but are untested; lights of other brands are not supported.
Hangboard Tracker
hangboard timer and counter with web companion
A hangboard and fingerboard trainer: a timer mode that buzzes you through hangs, rep rests and set rests, or a free mode where the watch counts your hangs (beta). A free companion web app shows live view, charts and history.
Cailloux
drop pebbles with the lap button so your crew follows your trail race
Data field for the Cailloux trail race app: one lap press drops a pebble so your crew can follow you on the course, and the watch shows the next point, distance left, planned time, your gap to plan and elevation still to climb.
Bike Display (Android only)
phone as a big bike display
Sends live ride data from your watch to the Bike Display phone app, turning an Android phone into a large cycling display for speed, heart rate, cadence, power, distance and ride time while the watch keeps recording.
Quran Khatam Planner
Quran khatam planner with daily targets
Turns your goal of finishing the Quran into a daily target: ready-made plans from 7 to 365 days or your own, tracking by page or verse, a double progress ring with today's exact range, reminders and a glance. English or Bahasa Indonesia.
MGU Dashboard
data field for Pinion MGU e-bike motors
Unofficial data field for e-bikes with a Pinion MGU motor: an arc-shaped power gauge, motor, cadence and assist level, battery and range, and the bike name. It connects automatically after a one-time setup with the FIT tools.
WayPoint Crew Roster
airline crew roster
For airline crew: shows the roster uploaded at mywpoint.com on the watch, with next flight, report time and a countdown in the glance, plus following duties. Works in airplane mode. Meant only as an in-flight aid.
Number Ladder
number puzzle with daily challenge
A number puzzle: reach the target from a start number using three operations such as +3, x2 or reverse digits, in as few steps as possible. Daily puzzle with a streak, endless mode, stars for par, undo and hints.
Sauna HR
sauna session tracking
A sauna session tracker for physical buttons, usable with wet hands: a large heart-rate display and separate timers for sauna, cold plunge and rest, with transit time left out. The store text warns that sauna heat is outside the watch's rated range.
oarbit (Beta)
rowing club stroke rate
Records rowing sessions: distance and split per 500 m from GPS, heart rate, and stroke rate measured from your arm movement. A beta for rowers of participating clubs; connecting to oarbit needs a club account and the iPhone app.
NanoRemote
remote for the DJI Osmo Nano camera
Controls a DJI Osmo Nano camera from the watch: start and stop recordings, take photos and switch between video, photo, slow motion, timelapse, hyperlapse and SuperNight. Reconnects to the last camera and shows clip durations.
ROX-strat
Hyrox race plan synced from iPhone
Puts your Hyrox race plan from the ROX-strat iPhone app on the watch: elapsed time, segment and projected finish through all 8 stations, your delta to plan at every split and heart rate. Also runs the Personal Fitness Test on one clock.
Beers
calories burned turned into earned beers
Turns the calories you burn into earned beers, as halves or pints. Log what you drink and it is subtracted from today's total; set the calories per size, undo, see your history and get an optional alert after an activity. 36 languages.
Plexit
Plex music library downloaded for offline play
Downloads music from your own Plex Media Server over Wi-Fi and plays it offline on the watch. Browse playlists, albums and artists, search, build mixes from favourites or recently added, and sync play history and ratings back to Plex.
GutPlan Pro
race nutrition coach
A fuelling coach for long runs that works out what you need from effort, temperature and build, then alerts you to take a gel, drink or eat and to take salt, also during structured workouts where Garmin's own alerts stay silent.
CrewSync — Crew Schedule on Your Wrist
crew schedule on the wrist
Shows your airline crew schedule on the watch: today's and tomorrow's duties, next flight with route, aircraft and gate, live flight status and destination weather. Free on the watch; needs the CrewSync phone app with a Premium subscription.
EF Live
streams position and HR to an enduro race safety map
Streams your GPS position and heart rate to the live map of an ENDURO.FAMILY race, so organizers and safety staff see every rider on track. On screen: race timer, heart rate, distance, altitude, temperature and transmissions.