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 using Big Easy (paid version) on Garmin Venu 2 Plus. I love the watchface but the wrist gesture is not working. I've watched the video so I believe I'm doing it right. It only works on manual change but it's set to manual or single gesture.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.

  • Easy Round is my favorite. But i got feature request to make it even better :)

    I would suggest implementing an option to make the screen refresh rate configurable. I do not need run-time data on my watch face like seconds, heartrate or steps to be updated more frequently than each minute.

    It would have been be prefect if there was an option to refresh the screen: each minute (default), each second (for runtime demands), wrist gesture based Best 

    This will be useful for guys like me which look for the most efficient battery usage

  • Porqué es mas cara en europa que en usd? 2.99 usd no son lo mismo que 2.99€.

  • I'm using Big Easy (paid version) on Garmin Venu 2 Plus. I love the watchface but the wrist gesture is not working. I've watched the video so I believe I'm doing it right. It only works on manual change but it's set to manual or single gesture.

    Follow instructions to make wrist gesture work: https://www.mobiledriveway.com/glance_dual.html#dual

  • Easy Round is my favorite. But i got feature request to make it even better :)

    I would suggest implementing an option to make the screen refresh rate configurable. I do not need run-time data on my watch face like seconds, heartrate or steps to be updated more frequently than each minute.

    It would have been be prefect if there was an option to refresh the screen: each minute (default), each second (for runtime demands), wrist gesture based Best 

    This will be useful for guys like me which look for the most efficient battery usage

    The screen is already refreshed once per minute when the watch is in low power mode and once per second when it is awake. Only seconds are always updated once per second, but you can disable it the app settings.

  • Porqué es mas cara en europa que en usd? 2.99 usd no son lo mismo que 2.99€.

    You can just pay in USD - it doesn't force you to pay in the EUR.

  • Yes but it gets awaken by the wrist gesture. What i ment was each minute regardless how frequentrly i look at the watch

  • What i would also apreciate is adding the small arrow along with the presure value to keep an eye on how thwe presure changes in a confugurable period of time. Something similar to the garmins default

  • What i would also apreciate is adding the small arrow along with the presure value to keep an eye on how thwe presure changes in a confugurable period of time. Something similar to the garmins default

    Pressure trend is already there - if there is no arrow, it means that the pressure is stable.