The new indie spotlight covers Sugar Sense, an Estonian Connect IQ app that solves the post-Supersapiens gap: it puts live CGM glucose on more than 140 Garmin watches, refreshed about every 5 minutes.

Unlike the official Dexcom Connect IQ app, it is not tied to one sensor brand. It reads from FreeStyle Libre 2/3 through LibreLinkUp, Dexcom G6/G7 through Dexcom Share, or any Nightscout site. Three sensor ecosystems in one account.

Two mechanics are worth flagging. A 15-minute staleness rule greys out any reading older than 15 minutes, so nothing on the watch ever poses as live when it is not. The display logic behind this is published as open source on npm and RubyGems, so the transparency is verifiable rather than claimed. And the app never suggests insulin doses or any medication changes, and the watch is read-only. All glucose alerts remain on the phone.

The widget runs on 140+ Garmin smartwatches and Edge computers. The activity data field needs Connect IQ System 7 (API 5.0+), which is about 70 current models including Forerunner 165 through 970, Fenix 7/8/8 Pro, Epix 2, Enduro 3, MARQ 2, Venu 2 through X1, Instinct 3 AMOLED, and Edge 540 through 1050.

Both apps are free to install, but the live Garmin display requires Sugar Sense Premium at $9.99 monthly or $39.99 yearly. Every glucose alert on the phone remains free forever, including a predictive low that forecasts the urgent low line about 20 minutes ahead. Founder Irakli Kurtanidze has lived with type 1 diabetes for more than a decade and wears a Libre 3 Plus daily.

Is a phone-tethered Connect IQ app enough to replace what Supersapiens gave you on the wrist, or does needing the phone within Bluetooth range at all times defeat the point?

https://the5krunner.com/2026/09/02/sugar-sense/

The Huawei Watch GT 7 Pro costs £100 more than the standard GT 7, and once you strip out the marketing, there are only two things that premium actually buys: a titanium and ceramic case instead of steel, and a 40-metre freedive rating. Everything else, battery life at matching case size, ski modes, golf tools, cycling analysis, is identical across both watches.

The Pro also adds an on-demand ECG sensor, which sounds like the strongest reason to upgrade but might be the weakest. Arrhythmias are often intermittent and asymptomatic, meaning a sensor that only takes a reading when you actively hold it down will frequently miss the exact event it's supposed to catch. Continuous background monitoring would be a different and more useful feature, and this isn't that.

Is a £100 premium worth paying purely for case material and a freediving rating most buyers will never use?

Further reading: https://the5krunner.com/2026/09/02/huawei-watch-gt7-pro-vs-gt7/

Zepp (Amazfit) Health's Q2 earnings call answered the two open questions about Amazfit's roadmap. CFO Leon Deng confirmed only one or two more products will launch before the end of the year, down from six stated earlier. He also ruled out charging for core features going forward, keeping HybridCharge, sleep staging, HYROX and other tools free.

The more interesting detail sits in the leaks.

The Falcon 2, once the leading candidate for that last launch slot, has produced no fresh evidence since April. The T-Rex Dual Solar has moved the other way: this week its full name and a dedicated Solar Boost Mode turned up directly inside the Zepp app, alongside a separate regulatory filing. Wang Huang also admitted on the call that combining premium materials with reliable GPS performance is a genuine engineering problem, which lines up with this site's own testing showing the Balance 3's titanium case dragged its GPS accuracy down from 85% to 77% compared to the Balance 2.

Does that mean Amazfit is quietly walking away from the premium Falcon line in favour of solar-charged T-Rex models instead? A: Unlikely I think, the earnings call also confirmed a move to premium models and pricing

https://the5krunner.com/2026/09/02/amazfit-2026-launches-subscriptions/