Apps & watchfaces
Discover useful Garmin Connect IQ apps, watchfaces, widgets, data fields, and customization ideas.
Day 10464Seasons 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 10185Goals 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 9048Track 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 8838Put 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 8576Can 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 79151The 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 7894How 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 59165Time 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 53160Want 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 5150Never 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 4729You 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 461575 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 44135Rain: 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 3422I 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 3393Titan: 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 32117Top 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 26173Top 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 2410I 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 2331WhatsApp 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 2210I 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 2013Core: 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 1513The 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 1027Stride 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 517The 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 45Hearts: 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 320Goals: 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 218Daily 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 198Stride: The Watchface My Doctor Inspired
A high blood pressure diagnosis led to building Stride — a Garmin watchface that motivates hourly movement through the day.