Apps & watchfaces
Discover useful Garmin Connect IQ apps, watchfaces, widgets, data fields, and customization ideas.
Day 1559Your Garmin Is a Light Switch: Control Philips Hue and Your Smart Home
Yes, you can control your smart home from your Garmin. Lumicoe puts your Philips Hue lights on your wrist, and there are apps for Home Assistant and Google Home too.
Day 15437The 5 Run Settings I Change Before I Trust a New Garmin
GPS mode, data fields, a heart rate alert, Auto Lap and always-on during runs. The five settings I change on every new Garmin before my first run, and why.
Day 152174Photo Time: Put Your Own Photos on Your Garmin, With a Layout Per Photo
Photo Time is a Garmin watchface that turns your own photos into the background. Upload them on the website, place the time where it suits each photo, pick its colours, and it syncs to your watch.
Day 15048The Top 5 Analog Watchfaces for Your Garmin
Want your Garmin to look like a real watch? Five analog watchfaces for a classic look, from an Italian-styled GMT to Helix Heritage, simply the best-looking of them all.
Day 14763The Free Tides App I Built for Garmin
High and low tides for the hours and days ahead, on your wrist, calculated offline on current watches. More than 200 locations, a glance view, and no phone needed on the beach.
Day 144116The Top 5 Nature Watchfaces for Your Garmin
Five Garmin watchfaces that bring nature to your wrist: a 24-hour dial that follows the sun and moon, a new flower bouquet every day, butterflies, a face that changes with the seasons, and a bouquet that grows with your steps.
Day 142295Cockpit: A Clean Garmin Watchface That Tracks Your Whole Day
Cockpit is a new Garmin watchface with a clever, clean layout that shows everything you track in a day. Every field is configurable, colours change right on the watch, and it can show two time zones.
Day 14070The Top 5 Halloween Watchfaces for Your Garmin
Your Garmin doesn't know it's spooky season yet. Five watchfaces — from Garmin's own Spooky Cat to a monster that actually haunts you for being lazy — to get it in the mood for Halloween.
Day 138114Never Miss a Prayer Time Again — Straight From Your Garmin
The free Time To Pray app works for Islamic, Jewish, Christian, Hindu and Bahá'í prayer schedules, with a qibla finder and alerts built in. Three watchfaces can even show your next prayer time directly on the dial.
Day 13442Coros Matches Garmin on Almost Everything — Except These Two Things
Battery, training metrics, GPS accuracy: Coros is genuinely competitive. But there is no streaming music and no app store, and both are things you'd notice every single day.
Day 12757Put Your parkrun Barcode on Your Garmin and Never Forget It Again
No barcode, no time — that's the parkrun rule. If you hate running with your phone, you can store the barcode on your watch instead, and the same trick works for gym and loyalty cards.
Day 11641The One Running Data Field Almost Nobody Adds: Cadence
Most runners only look at pace, distance, time, and heart rate. Cadence — your steps per minute — is one of the best signals for why a run feels harder than it should.
Day 11576Got a Garmin Feature Idea? I Might Build It for You
Every watchface and app I've shipped — including Goals Pro — started as a request on the public idea board. Drop your idea, vote on others, and you might see it on your wrist next.
Day 112209The Top 5 Garmin Apps to Install First
Music without your phone, hydration tracking, an arcade break, live rain radar, and a fully customisable watchface — these are the five Garmin apps to install first.
EXTRA53Garmin Cirqa vs Whoop vs Fitbit Air — And Why You Probably Don't Need One
Garmin's first screenless tracker costs $199.99 with no subscription. Here's how it really compares to the Whoop 5.0 and the Fitbit Air — and why, if you already own a recent Garmin watch, a free watchface gets you the same screen-free experience today.
Day 104102Seasons Premium: The Watchface That Changes With the Calendar, Now With More Style
Seasons is one of my most popular Garmin watchfaces, redesigned. Seasons Premium adds style and font options, an optional goal gauge ring, analog hands, and still switches its look automatically with the seasons.
Day 101151Goals Pro: The Upgrade to the Most Popular Garmin Watchface
Goals is the most popular watchface on Garmin, and I made it. Goals Pro takes that same ring design and adds full customisation — more fonts, analog hands, shortcuts, and a background that follows your colours.
Day 9060Track Hydration on Your Garmin Watchface With Hydration PRO
Garmin can remind you to drink, but Hydration PRO can also share your daily progress with compatible watchfaces such as Goals 8.
Day 8858Put Your Own Photos on a Garmin With Photo Pro
Photo Pro turns your own image into a configurable Garmin watchface, with a free basic tier and support for up to seven saved photos in Max.
Day 8595Can the Garmin Rain App Really Warn You Before Rain Starts?
The Rain app shows upcoming precipitation on your Garmin. Here's how to use it, what a 30-minute rain warning means, and why it is useful for walks, runs, and rides.
Day 79230The Top 5 Garmin Watchfaces of 2026 (So Far)
From a Pokémon face to the Laziest Watchface Ever Created — these are the five Garmin watchfaces that have dominated wrists in 2026 so far.
Day 7899How a Near-Bike-Crash Led Me to Build the Rain App
The Rain app is celebrating its 10th birthday. It started with dark clouds, a distracted cyclist, and almost hitting a tree — here's the full story.
Day 59191Time To Pray: Never Miss a Prayer Again
Time To Pray is a Garmin app that gives you accurate prayer times, a qibla finder, and watchface data fields with a countdown to the next prayer — works with any religion or tradition.
Day 53166Want a Garmin Feature That Doesn't Exist Yet? Here's How to Get It Built
There's now a public idea board where anyone can submit feature requests for my Garmin apps, see what others have asked for, and vote on what gets built next.
Day 5158Never Late: The Garmin Watchface That Fixes Chronically Late Friends (and You)
Never Late is a Garmin watchface available on the Connect IQ Store that shifts the displayed time by however many minutes you're always running behind — so you're actually on time for once.
Day 4735You Can Now Vote on What Gets Built Next
There's a public feature request board for all my Garmin apps. Browse what others have asked for, vote on the features you want, and submit your own ideas.
Day 461785 More Apps I Always Install on a New Garmin (Pt. 2)
Route discovery, a game for your bathroom break, geocaching, tides, and the most popular watchface on Garmin. Five more apps worth installing immediately.
Day 44143Rain: The Fastest Precipitation Widget for Garmin
Rain skips the slow radar images and shows a clean precipitation graph instead — fast, worldwide, and precise. Here's what it does and why it's worth installing.
Day 3430I Got Soaked on My Run — Here's the App That Prevents It
I had the Rain app installed on my Garmin and still got completely soaked. Not because it failed — because I forgot to check it. Here's how to use it right.
Day 33133Titan: The Most Advanced Garmin Watchface I've Ever Built
8 data fields with 80+ options each, 3 goal gauges, 8 font choices, on-device colour management. Titan is the most configurable watchface in the Connect IQ Store.
Day 32765Top 5 Free Garmin Watchfaces Worth Installing
You don't have to spend a cent to have a great Garmin watchface. These 5 free watchfaces cover aesthetics, health tracking, and everything in between.
Day 26211Top 5 Apps I Always Install on a New Garmin
Every time I get a new Garmin, these 5 apps go on first. Music streaming, rain alerts, hourly steps, hydration tracking, and the best all-in-one watchface.
Day 2412I Caught a Charizard on My Garmin
There's an official Pokémon watchface in the Connect IQ Store with 48 Pokémon. It ties your body battery to your Pokémon's energy state. Here's how it works.
Day 2347WhatsApp Is Finally on Garmin — Here's How to Set It Up
After years of waiting, there's a WhatsApp app for Garmin in the Connect IQ Store. It works — with some limitations. Here's the setup and what to expect.
Day 2216I Helped an Oil Tanker Pass Through the Strait of Hormuz
A watchface where every completed daily goal helps a virtual oil tanker navigate a geopolitical hotspot. Absurd, funny, and completely free.
Day 2018Core: Put Whatever You Want at the Center of Your Garmin
Should time really be the most important thing on your watchface? Core lets you center any stat — steps, heart rate, body battery, or anything else that matters most to you.
Day 1539The Garmin Tides App: Know the Ocean Before You Go
A free Connect IQ app shows you 7 days of tide data offline — essential for surfers, sailors, fishermen, and beach runners. No internet needed.
Day 1035Stride II: The Watchface That Might Save Your Life
The evolution of Stride — Stride II adds more data, smoother visuals, and the same hourly step motivation system that started this whole journey.
Day 531The Laziest Garmin Watchface Ever Created
Every fitness watch tells you to move more. This one rewards you for doing absolutely nothing. Built with AI agents — and completely free.
Day 48Hearts: Never Forget Valentine's Day Again
I always forget Valentine's Day — so I built a reminder into my watchface. Hearts grows with your step goal and shows heart rate, battery, and a subtle nudge to buy flowers.
Day 340Goals: Apple Watch Rings — But for Garmin
Switched from Apple Watch and miss closing your rings? The Goals watchface brings that ring-closing satisfaction to Garmin with fully customizable metrics.
Day 230Daily Flowers: Fresh Design Every Single Day
Tired of your flowers dying? Daily Flowers gives your Garmin a new floral design every day — while still tracking your goals, steps, and heart rate.
Day 1131Stride: The Watchface My Doctor Inspired
A high blood pressure diagnosis led to building Stride — a Garmin watchface that motivates hourly movement through the day.