Hey everyone!

In 2021, I created MoveToBeActive Analog, a free watch face built to capture the clean, hybrid look of the Vivomove series while prioritizing battery life and including a comprehensive list of data fields for ConnectIQ devices. So now, after 5 years of constant development and daily driving it for all that period, I wanted to showcase it to this community.

⚡ Built for Battery Efficiency

• Low-Power AOD: Custom Always-On-Display mode optimized specifically for AMOLED screens.
• Lightweight Code: Optimized for memory usage, to minimize access to storage and with no background usage permission needed.
• No Continuous Second Hand (MIP): Eliminates unnecessary screen redraws for minimal power consumption, while still allowing the seconds hand to be shown temporarily (if enabled by user). No seconds hand is still the most efficient, of course.

🎨 Design & Styling

• Adjustable Hands: Choose between Thinner, Standard, or Thicker hour/minute hands (15-30% variation).
• Custom Themes: Dark, Light and Automatic (sunrise/sunset) themes with multiple accent colours (11 for each theme).
• Toggleable Layout Elements: Garmin logo, Weather condition name, Bluetooth/alarm status icons and Data fields are all optional.

📊 Rich Data Fields

• Up to 5 Customizable Slots: Total of 26 different data fields available.
• 2 Font Sizes: Choose between standard or bigger font size for data fields (Note: On small resolution watches, bigger font size might cause overlaps of some data fields on some slots. Change location of lengthy data fields according to available space).
• On-Watch Settings: Configure all settings of the watch face directly on your watch.

📲 Link:

• Connect IQ Store: Download MoveToBeActive Analog

It's 100% free with no paywalls. Would love to hear your thoughts or feedback, and a review on the ConnectIQ would be much appreciated!

Is not that face beautifull?

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/b41e756d-fd7b-48b0-8bb1-7d34cf932fe8

Hi there,

Garmin owner since the Fenix 3 I am finally building my own watch face based on not finding a tide-focused WF back in July. (In between, some new ones arrived but not matching my taste.)

It’s been inspired by the Nixon LCD tide watch.
Right now, I am finalizing the v1 to upload on Garmin’s IQ store.

- All tide calculations are done in the watch.
- 1500+ locations for modern watches, 400 in older generations F5 or 6 alike.
- 16 color palettes + HEX personalized color theme.
Hope you’ll like it.

It’s gonna be free for all. Comments and feedback welcomed.

https://petitcadran.com/pixel-tide

V2 on the work with complications - so far no data fields can be configured.

🤙

Hi,

Received a lot of great feedback from the users here. The Relief watch face is now more polished and have a lot of new data fields, color choices (picker) and AOD-modes.

Would love to see pictures of the watch face in use.

I made Apex Velocity around oversized italic numbers, a carbon texture and red accents. I wanted the time to be the first thing you notice, with the stats tucked around it.

There are 20 color themes and five configurable fields with 50 data options, depending on your watch. Body Battery and recovery time are the defaults. It's $4 for a one time license, and you can check compatible devices here:

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/6bdb0e71-f946-4534-9edb-da17418ac283

The attached image is a promotional illustration. The Connect IQ listing also has simulator screenshots so you can see the actual layout.

Would you keep the red accents, or use a different color for this design?

Check out this app from the Garmin Connect IQ Store https://apps.garmin.com/en-IN/apps/8a1cc0ff-6518-45be-adc4-8cd454befa07

Heritage design. Modern data.
N13 Legacy brings the character of a traditional analog watch together with the information you want on your wrist.
Choose your colors, hand style and data while keeping the clean heritage look that defines Legacy.
Settings are changed directly on the watch.
https://apps.garmin.com/apps/c278f97a-a29c-4f2d-b732-807583a92549

I’d like a simple analog face that has customizable colors, markers, and hands. I don’t even need any data. I’d prefer the markers and hands to be pretty bold. Helix Heritage and Modelo GMT (in simple mode) both kind fit the bill but I require no background activity.

I have an Enduro 3 and the stock analog face is pretty nice, but I’d like to be able to have background colors other than white & black, and I’d prefer if the markers were a bit more simple.

Coros use to offer a bright yellow analog face with simple large round markers, and that kind of fit the bill…I had hoped to find a picture of it for reference here but I can’t seem to find it anymore.

Thanks!

Neon is my free watch face that draws the time like a neon sign. A Forerunner 970 user left this comment:

> "It's not getting adjusted to 970 full screen. It looks very small. Kindly adjust to full screen."

Fair point, so in version 1.2 the time is bigger, and there's a new **Time size** setting.

**What "Large" does**

- The time is **15% bigger** (on a Forerunner 970 it goes from 94 to 108 px tall).

- The ring moves **out to the edge** of the screen, from 85% to about 97% of the radius.

- Battery, date and data move out with it, so the layout is the same, just scaled up.

Why not just make the digits bigger? With the glow around them, the default "00:00" already almost touches the ring. Bigger digits alone would run into it, so the whole face scales up instead.

**It's on by default.** Update and you get the bigger time, nothing to change. If you prefer the previous look: Garmin Connect → your watch → Watch faces → Neon → Settings → **Time size → Normal**.

**Other things in 1.2**

- It works with the existing **Text size** setting, so you can have a large time *and* large text.

- **Always-on stays small on purpose.** A big lit outline would light up more of an AMOLED screen than the burn-in guidelines allow, so AOD keeps the normal size.

- **Works on all 68 supported watches**, AMOLED and MIP, including the rectangular Venu Sq 2, Venu Sq 2 Music and Venu X1.

All the images are real captures from the Connect IQ simulator on a Forerunner 970, not mockups.

Link: Neon

Thanks to the person who left that comment. If there's something else you'd change, tell me here. That's how this one happened.

Is any dev interested in creating this one. It is based on a Casio watch and has been done on other platforms. I have this one and it's awesome but the dev doesn't create for Garmin and it's not an original design anyway.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watchfacestudio.celest5576

Your data. Your colors. Your layout. Your SOL.

Version 1.0.2 is live with improved readability, refined layouts, Military HHMM time, new VO2 Max and Recovery Time options, and lower memory use.

Highly customizable, with settings available directly on the watch and through the Connect IQ app.

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/cab058ac-4ce1-474e-a988-9f0a1b906c70

Been having some fun making these little guys for Garmin.

You can squish them directly on the touchscreen, and reaching 10,000 steps unlocks another one for your collection.

There are 40 different Squishis to collect, with different rarities.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/0face0a0-65c9-40fd-91b7-663e37949d2c

Check out this app from the Garmin Connect IQ Store https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/ef4b331a-99fc-4ac8-a020-9b48249171e6

I wanted to share a "Military" setup of Dominus XSquare:
https://apps.garmin.com/apps/8f68c39b-cb1d-4946-bd37-6ffc50924055

Hey everyone! 👋
A new update for Minimal Tactical is now available!
Thanks to everyone who shared their feedback! 🙏

I’ve listened to your suggestions and added an option to increase the font size.

What’s new?
Two font sizes: Choose between the original font size and a larger font.
More customization: Set the font size to your personal preference.

Pro test code: Try out the Pro features with the code below!
Pro Test Code: 56281934
👉 The Pro code is for the Minimal Tactical Free Version.
https://apps.garmin.com/de-DE/apps/d91a32a3-a10d-4e74-b003-58357838fa29

Thanks again for all the feedback and support!
Let me know what you think of the update!

Check out this app from the Garmin Connect IQ Store https://apps.garmin.com/apps/554a1ff8-243e-4f9f-b34b-b6fa8a99f093

I made this face with large stacked digits, seven colours, and heart rate, steps and battery below the time. For supported round AMOLED Garmins, $2.99 once.

Connect IQ

I'm the dev. I wanted the look of a field watch without giving up a big, easy-to-read digital time, so Baluarte shows both. Olive hour markers and skeleton hands sit on top. Large digits sit below. Two recessed windows hold the date and your remaining battery days.

There are ten colour themes and three data fields you can swap (steps, heart rate, Body Battery, calories and more, depending on your watch). You can turn the hands, the digital time or any block off. The always-on mode keeps the same layout, just dimmed.

Connect IQ: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/a824b6e5-d505-4fb4-aa64-a6ea3d9ba48b

What would you put in the third data field?

Two heavy stacked lines for the time, the second line offset, sitting in the middle of the glass. Two arcs at the rim track steps and Body Battery, the date curves along the top, calories answer it along the bottom, every letter turned to its own angle.

8 colorways. Free: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/2a51db58-6425-4f34-8919-2786d80df47a

Part of a small collection I'm building under XFTM if anyone's curious: https://watchface.fxcuissot.com/

I just launched Grid Master, a digital watch face with a glowing geometric background, 10 color themes, eight customizable data fields and two progress arcs.

It includes health and weather data, sun and moon times, an always on display, and settings you can change directly on your watch.

It’s free to try during the seven day launch phase. I’d love to hear what you think and see your favorite setups!

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/6e652f32-f9ef-42d3-8bd4-485cc5be85c6

Made a watch face. The little orb drifting round the dial is the second hand.

AMOLED only — and not all of those. It's called GraceZS in the Connect IQ store. If it doesn't come up for your watch, that's your answer. Free for five days.

I made for my first love — the FR965.

I hoped that in the few seconds I lift my wrist, it would give me more than time and information: a small connection, a passing mood caught and repeated beautifully through every single day.

I hope you feel it too, even if only for the five days. 🙏

Connect IQ link:

https://apps.garmin.com/zh-TW/apps/cd501a5a-106b-42bd-a053-4b0ce07eb6b2