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!

  • Can someone share the colour string code for the right hand display of the three in the image (white/blue/yellow/green)

  • What is the colour string code for the right hand demo image?

    white, blue, yellow, green ?

    thanks 

  • Does a single payment cover both the Big Easy and glance pro?

  • How do I get the premium version of BiG Easy? How do I pay for the premium?

    You can find payment instructions in the app description.

  • What is the colour string code for the right hand demo image?

    white, blue, yellow, green ?

    If noone share the theme you like, you would just have to set the colors manually (looking at the image you like). Feel free to share the resulting string here.

  • Does a single payment cover both the Big Easy and glance pro?

    Each app has its own unlock code.

  • Hello,

    I wanted to tell you that your watch face is really great, the best in fact, by far!

    I immediately paid this morning to take the Dual version to thank you because that's what I've been missing since I was given my Forerunner 955 Solar: a dial full of useful information on a daily basis!

    Only little thing that I miss compared to the original dial: the time of the next alarm with the possibility of pressing it to go to the alarm menu. 

    Everything else is perfect!

    A big thank you to you !

    Mickael

  • Only little thing that I miss compared to the original dial: the time of the next alarm with the possibility of pressing it to go to the alarm menu. 

    Everything else is perfect!

    Unfortunatelly Garmin does not provide an Alarm complication to 3rd party apps, so it is impossible to implement. Thanks

  • Thank you for your reply ! 

    Maybe Garmin will change that one day. 

    In another register, is it possible to put scalable colors for the bars, such as green at the bottom, orange in the middle, then red at the end for the battery gauge, or always for this bar, for the period  of daily light, depict the sun on the bar, with night depicted at the ends. 

    Well these are just ideas, this watchface is already so complete!

  • Does anyone understand how you actually pay ? Payment is mentioned a bunch of times, and I am using the Dual version, but all I could find was a field named "Unlock Code" with no further explanation on how to get one. FAQ doesn't explain either, nor does this topic. I expect that at some point my Glance Dual watch face will stop working, probably after 7 days, at which point I'm almost guaranteed to not be home with a credit card in hand ready to set up whatever I need to do. I would very much like to pay now, but I have no idea how!