Watchface: Glance

NEWS UPDATE:

With introduction of Garmin Pay, I am starting to add a new payment option for some of my apps. The system is not flexible enough to just add Garmin Pay to existing apps, so I'll publish a copy of an app, with the same functionality but Garmin Pay as the payment provider.

The first one out is Glance Ultra (a copy of Glance Dual Screen):

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/1bed8f69-2e34-46e4-9786-3166fa3c6ab2?tid=0

EASY Round - 2023 #1 watch face of the year (by Garmin):

apps.garmin.com/.../9a619d99-3e5b-4eec-81e7-006655d797cc

EASY Round

GLANCE WATCH FACE app won THE BEST NEW WATCH FACE APP OF 2022 ! At the Developers conference Garmin announced nominees and winners for the best apps in different categories. Glance Watch Face was nominated and won in the best new watch face category Slight smile! Garmin didn't post the video from the conference yet, but it was already reported by other websites: https://the5krunner.com/2022/10/12/garmin-app-watchface-of-the-year-2022-ciq-winners-and-nominees-announced/

The idea for this app is simple:
- Use only large fonts, so that all data are visible at a glance (hence the name of the app: Glance   )
- Put as much data on the screen as possible, without sacrificing font size above
- Make all data fields customizeable to your needs
- Make colors customizeable as much as possible, so users can create their own design

The "Glance Watch Face" app is 100% FREE - no hidden restrictions, nagging, or expiration:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/07ae ... 07e8035fae

There is also a mostly free app - BIG EASY: apps.garmin.com/.../86ec352b-da01-4806-8972-770c6d32a5e8

There are also two paid versions of this app - "Glance Pro":

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/ac4be3ce-f0f3-4c49-be01-5fa52614ab2b

and "Glance Dual Screen":

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/5c0fe72b-f045-4366-a878-d3e67c600868

Paid versions are identical to the free version (so no worries, FREE doesn't mean bad!), but have a lot of extra features features:

  • Open Weather Map support
  • Setting for TIME font weight
  • New way to use shared color themes
  • Support for many new metrics (like Body Battery, Stress Level, and lots more)
  • Extra progress bars and Graphs (in Dual Screen only)
  • Two separate data screens (in Dual Screen only) 
  • A lot more - see apps description for the full list
  • You have an opportunity (and a small incentive) to support the development Slight smile

Unique feature of the Glance apps - you can save your own Color Themes and quicly switch between them righ on the watch.

NEW: Now you can SHARE your Color Theme! You can also quickly apply Color Themes shared with you. Here is a full description of how it all works: https://www.mobiledriveway.com/glance.html#color

Here is the current Color Themes Gallery: https://www.mobiledriveway.com/glance_gallery.html

Color themes are compatible between "Glance" and "Glance Pro" (except for "inactive status icons color", which became obsolete in "Pro").

I'd love to see all color combinations you came up with. Please post your themes in the Reviews and I'll add them to the gallery!

Questions and suggestions are welcome!

  • I'm a long user of BIG EASY paid and the premium functionalities are no longer showing on the watch after the update. :(

    You didn't post any details of what is not showing and what does show. If the message is "No $" or "$" - re-enter the unlock code in the app settings. If it is something else - read the FAQ, it has nothing to do with the payment. In either case, it has absolutelly nothing to do with the app update.

  • Easy Round showed 23:59 and the seconds switched from 59 to 00. But instead of switching the time to 00:00 ist stayed at 23:59 for 8 seconds. Next thing I saw was 00:00 and 8 seconds. Second screen was active at this moment. Any idea what the watch was doing at midnight?

  • Any idea what the watch was doing at midnight?

    Probably some more important Garmin stuff. It just means that Garmin system didn't call app's onUpdate() function as it is suppose to. Just another Garmin bug.

    If you knew the code as well as I do, you would know that it is impossible to be an app's bug.

  • My watch is very often busy with other things... Like the 735 before... From time to time I have to wake up the 245 by pressing the up or down button and back to the watchface to enable the switch to the second screen. Obviously it's rocket science to build a firmware without bugs or at least no new bugs after an update.

  • Yes, like Body Battery stops working after firmware update. Anyway, things do get fixed from time to time.

  • How to reset the EASY Round watch face to the stock colors? I changed colors too see what's available, but I liked the stock colors the most. I have not found a way to simply reset the colors.

  • As per my observation this watchface apps.garmin.com/.../7e9bc29d-4f79-42df-91ca-a5e6b6cf4055 uses smaller sizes of this font at the same time and also allows to change it. And for me it looks great on Epix2 big AMOLED screen. Because of its size and resolutution Easy Round metrics are to big and heavy for me. Maybe on MIP displays it helps... So unfortunately I need to give up using this watchface :'(

    BTW: I'm first time using Garmin forum for such requests, and I find it very inconvinient to have separate requests as a single conversation especially for couple different apps. I wonder what's the bottleneck to not have such functionality more effective? Looking for something usefull among all those pages, especially via smartphone, is painfull. 

  • I use Epix 2 and current fonts in EASY Round look perfect on it - both fit and glanceability. I'm glad you finally found something that you like though. Good luck there.

  • How to reset the EASY Round watch face to the stock colors? I changed colors too see what's available, but I liked the stock colors the most. I have not found a way to simply reset the colors.

    Next time save colors to a User Theme (through "Customize" menu on the watch) before changing them. There are also a bunch of stock themes there you might like.

  • I'm a sandwich short of a picnic.  BigEasy premium field now says "No $". 

    But I can't find where to pay or how much?