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Best Garmin watch faces: Our top picks to download
There are a lot of Garmin sports watches out there, and many operate a lot like smartwatches. By that we mean you can now download apps to them, store music and even make payments.
Another thing you can do now is tinker around with the watch face. Watches like the Garmin Forerunner 245, Fenix 6 and Garmin Venu 2 will serve you up a bunch of pre-installed faces.
But if you want more from your watch face than simply telling the time, you’ll need to dive into the Connect IQ Store to find them.
Along with the downloadable apps, data fields and widgets, you can also get hold of faces to put the metrics you care about most onto the screen you probably look at the most throughout the day. These are watch faces made by developers and in-house at Garmin, and the collection is growing.
With the arrival of the Connect IQ Store app, Garmin has made it more straightforward to make your own custom watch faces too.
We’ve tested a lot of Garmins here at Wareable and we’ve downloaded and played around with our fair share of watch faces in the process. So we’ve picked out some of the faves for you below.
Summit Watch Face
Mixing analogue and digital watch looks, Summit gives you room to pick what’s shown on the three digital sub-dials including battery and distance covered.
There’s plenty of colored themes to pick from and it’s now added the ability to show of solar intensity data from watches like the Fenix 6 Pro Solar.
You’ll need to permit access to the heart rate sensor, barometer, temperature and altitude data, but it is one you can download for free if you can’t choose between digital and analogue watch worlds.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu/Venu 2/Venu Sq, Enduro, Marq, Forerunner 245/745/645 Music/935/945, D2, Approach S60/62
Chariot B-Shock
This weather-centric face looks great on the Fenix 6 and the Garmin Enduro pulling in current conditions from openweather.org.
Along with showing off current weather, you also have additional fields for battery status, real-time heart rate, step counts, floors climbed and environmental data like humidity and weather conditions.
If you spend a lot of time outdoors exploring, this is the kind of free face to have loaded up onto your Garmin.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu/Venu Sq, Enduro, Marq, Forerunner 245/745/645 Music/935/945, D2, Approach S60/62
Home-Fit Thrill
This is an official Garmin watch face that sits firmly in the data-packed category but nicely breaks up those metrics making them easy to glance at.
You can adjust the base colors in the face and there’s six data fields you can customise to show off your preferred data. That’s built around Garmin’s Move Bar, time, date and a nice battery status indicator.
You’ll need to permit access to your heart rate data, the barometer, temperature and altitude information to make the most of this metric-rich option.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu/Venu 2, Enduro, Marq, Forerunner 245/745/645 Music/935/945, D2, Approach S60/62
Not Enduro
Not Enduro reminds a lot of the kind of colorful watch faces you’ll find available to Fitbit smartwatch users. It nicely breaks down your preferred stats into colored bar and drops the time and other watch features below.
You can select from 17 different stats to display and color options to choose from. Just be aware that using it will hog your battery life. It’s a great looker though and a great one for Garmin’s AMOLED-packing Venu smartwatches.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu/Venu 2/Venu Sq, Enduro, Marq, Forerunner 245/745/645 Music/935/945, D2, Approach S60/62
Sunset
The arrival of the Venu, Venu 2 and Venu Sq has meant an influx of bright, vibrant watch faces that look much nicer on AMOLED displays than translflective ones. Sunset definitely falls into that bracket of a face that’s a good fit for the Venu.
Along with that sunset-inspired look you can keep the stats on show minimal with steps, and small indicators for battery or incoming notifications tucked away at the bottom of the face.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu/Venu 2/Venu Sq, Enduro, Marq, Forerunner 245/745/645 Music/935/945, D2, Approach S60/62
Hexagonalia 3
Another one that looks great on the Venu, you can throw some shapes onto your screen for a more fun look on your Garmin.
You can pick from either black or white themes and then you can choose to add stats like step counts, calories burned along with the current date and time.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu/Venu 2/Venu Sq, Enduro, Marq, Forerunner 245/745/645 Music/935/945, D2, Approach S60/62
SHN TxD
It’s always a bit annoying when you see a watch face crop up on another Garmin and you scroll through to find out you don’t have it in yours.
This Garmin Tactix D-inspired face looks great in all black with white white text, but you can also customise to change up the colors to show off the metrics and information you care about the most.
It will require permissions to the likes of heart rate and barometer and temperature sensors to give that added data hit on your watch face. It’s a looker and works on a host of Garmin’s watches too.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu/Venu 2/Venu Sq, Enduro, Marq, Forerunner 245/745/645 Music/935/945, D2, Approach S60/62
Infocal
One of our faves on the Fenix, Infocal puts the watch time front and centre and moves your glanceable data around the edges.
You can add up to 8 complications, which you configure from Garmin Connect or Express, and it’ll let you invert the colors if you prefer black text on a white face instead.
It will need access to onboard sensors to relay data to the watch face, whether you need to glance at weather updates, daily fitness tracking stats or sunrise/sunset times.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu, Forerunner 245/645 Music/745/935/945, D2, Epix, Approach S62
Jogging Master
Jogging Master is an official watch face made by Garmin that offers a nice-looking analogue option where you can still show off your stats.
There’s three sub-dials you can customise including the color and we found it’s a good way to keep tabs on battery life status and daily step counts. It’s a good face to show how you can get that traditional watch face look and still find room for complications to live on it too.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3, Forerunner 245/645 Music/745/935/945, D2, Approach S60
Rails
If you like your watch faces crammed with complications, this is most certainly one for you.
Rails lets you tinker with the icons dotted above and below the rails and you can adjust the thickness of the hours and minutes in the middle too.
You can also mix up the colors if you don’t want to go with the yellow themed one up top. You’ll need to give it access to GPS location and sensors if you want to pull in information like weather, heart rate and elevation.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu/Venu 2/Venu Sq, Enduro, Marq, Forerunner 245/745/645 Music/935/945, D2, Approach S60/62
Ranger
Ranger is a very sleek analogue face if you prefer to focus on the time and keep the step counts and heart rate readings well out of sight.
You can adjust the color of the face and the watch hands to make it a better fit for you Garmin and watch band. It’s really simple, minimalist and that’s why what we really like about it.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3/4, Venu, Forerunner 245/645 Music/745/935/945, D2, Approach S60
Movement
Movement is an official watch face made by Garmin that’s all about bringing a splash of color to your sports watch. The rainbow effect does its very best to bring some life to a display that can feel a little less vibrant when compared to an Apple or Samsung smartwatch display.
Along with the time, it’ll let you view metrics like elevation (if you watch supports it) battery status and there’s a little graphic equalizer lets you know the music is playing. In the watch face settings, which you can find in Connect IQ, you can tinker with the colors to mix things up. We think the default option is the most eye-catching though.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive 3, Forerunner 245/645 Music/745/935/945, D2 Bravo, Approach S60
Ha Long Bay
One of our current new faves, the Ha Long Bay watch face will give your Garmin wearable a nice animated scene if you don’t want it filled with all of those metrics. Along with a boat that slowly moves across your face, you can see your step count along with the time, battery status and whether you’ve got a Bluetooth connection to your paired smartphone.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 and 6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Marq, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3, Forerunner 230/235/245/630/645 Music/735XT/920XT/935/945, D2 Bravo, Epix
ActiFace
Aiming to put as much useful information in front of your eyes as possible, ActiFace shows the time and date, your activity history graph in calories and distance, plus daily goal progress, step count and notifications. It’s a big improvement on some of Garmin’s dull efforts, and certainly one for data lovers.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 and 6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Venu, Venu 2, Venu Sq, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3/Vivoactive 4, Forerunner 45/245/645 Music/745/935/945, D2 Bravo, Approach S60/62
Crystal
Winner of best new watch face at Garmin’s 2019 Connect IQ Developer awards, Crystal is a really great example of a watch face that piles on the data without making it feel like a crowded mess. There are three configurable data fields: heart rate, battery and notifications.
You can have it display whether your watch is currently connected to your phone and it also incorporates Garmin’s Move Bar. Down the side of the face, you can also assign features like battery life and your step count to complete your data fix.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 and 6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Venu, Venu 2, Venu Sq, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3/Vivoactive 4, Forerunner 45/245/645 Music/745/935/945, D2 Bravo, Approach S60/62
DigiSport
If you’ve seen the Nike watch face you can find on the Nike+ edition of the Apple Watch, then DigiSport will feel familiar. It pushes the time to the right, leaving room for three circular icons (large, medium and small), which can be assigned information such as steps, Bluetooth connection status and notifications.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 and 6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3/Vivoactive 4, Forerunner 230/235/245/630/645 Music/735XT/745/920XT/935/945, Approach S60/62, Venu, Venu Sq
Lachesis (Light)
This is a watch face that’s a good fit for Garmin’s more elegant-looking devices. As well as displaying watch face staples like time and date, it uses glowing lines around the edge of the face to give you a visual indicator of your step tracking progress. It’s available in four beach-themed colours and is definitely one of the best we’ve used on the likes of the Forerunner 645 and the 945.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 and 6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Venu, Venu 2, Venu Sq, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3/Vivoactive 4, Forerunner 45/245/645 Music/745/935/945, D2 Bravo, Approach S60/62
SkyTracker
If you’re all about the weather, this is a face that does a really nice job of displaying that metrological data. As well as letting you glance at your heart rate, battery life and notifications, it’ll also place weather conditions from your current location with a sunny, rainy or even snowy icon to let you know if you need to grab yourself a jacket before you leave the house.
You can also unlock extra options, which include additional colour themes, weather data and displaying seconds for the time.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 and 6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3/Vivoactive 4, Forerunner 245/645 Music/745/935/945, Approach S60/S62, Garmin Marq, Venu, Venu 2
Gigantus
The clue is in the name with this one. If you want the time front and centre, that’s what this watch face will do. It focuses on dedicating that watch screen largely to the time, but will also display data around it like heart rate, do not disturb mode, battery life status and activity tracking information like steps and distance covered. If you want a watch face where the time dominates the screen, this is one of the best we’ve used.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3, Forerunner 230/235/245/630/645 Music/735XT/920XT/935, D2 Bravo.
This watch face deals with the masses of data Garmins can churn out by simply putting a line down the screen to separate time from all that other information. It’s bit more elegantly done once it’s on your watch, dedicating the right side of the screen to calorie burn, battery life, weather and heart rate. On the left, you’ll get the time and date. All in all, it’s a nice alternative to the way other faces on the Connect IQ Store deal with all of those metrics.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 and 6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3/Vivoactive 4, Venu/Venu 2, Forerunner 230/235/245/630/645 Music/735XT/745/920XT/935/945, D2 Bravo, Approach S60/62
Polaris (Stealth)
If you’re looking for an analogue watch face, Polaris is a space-themed option which looks quite nice on Garmin’s newer watches like the 645 Music and Vivoactive series. It’s available in four cosmic-themed colours that along with swapping numbers for watch hands will also elegantly display the date and battery life status. It keeps things simple, but that’s quite alright with us.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 and 6 series, Vivoactive 3/4, Forerunner 645 Music, Forerunner 245/645/745/935/945, Marq, Approach S60/62, Venu
Simple Info Analog
This is another analogue watch face fave for those that want the look of a more traditional timepiece. You’ve got your pick of digital or performance analogue looks with the ability to customise the look and the information that can be subtly displayed. That includes the watch hand colours and how data like the date and battery status is incorporated.
The two bars on either side of the watch face can be assigned to features like step count and the move bar, and the colours of those bars change based on your progress. It looks good, and does what it promises: to keep things simple.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3, Forerunner 230/235/245/630/645 Music/735XT/920XT/935, Approach S60
My Watch
A previous Connect IQ Developer award winner, My Watch throws a whole lot of data onto your wrist but uses a mix of colours, icons and meters to help you easily digest that data. It comes in two styles (dark and light) and include everything from heart rate, moon phases, your weekly intensity activity time, altitude and temperature.
The data that can be displayed will be dependent on the sensors your Garmin has onboard to churn it out. It works with a good range of Garmins too, whether you’ve got a Fenix or a Vivoactive 3.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5 series, Vivoactive 3, Forerunner 645 Music, Forerunner 935, Approach S60, D2 Delta, Descent Mk1
Duck Hunt
If you played the Nintendo classic all those years ago, then this dog appearing from the bushes will be a very familiar sight. Inspired by the 80’s game, the animated watch face strips away the metrics and focus on telling you the time and nothing else. If you don’t need your data on show all day and you loved the game, this is definitely one for you.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix 3, Vivoactive 3, Forerunner 230/235/245/630/645 Music/735XT/745/920XT/935/945, Approach S60, Marq, Vivoactive 4
Christmas Jumper
Okay, so this one is only fitting to wear in December (unless you’re a total Christmas fanatic), but this the watch face you want if you want to make your wrist feel more festive. It’s been built by Garmin and will let you pick from five patterns that bring that knitted jumper look to your watch face. Crucially, it’ll still display data like battery life, the date and step counts along with that woolly jumper.
Compatible watches: Fenix 5/6 series, Fenix 3, Fenix Chronos, Vivoactive/Vivoactive HR/Vivoactive 3/4, Forerunner 230/235/245/630/645 Music/735XT/745/920XT/935/945, Approach S60, Venu, Marq
Часы Garmin для навигации. Опыт за год.
Начнем с того что часы ношу с детства. В данный момент больше 10шт. От кварцевых до механического хронографа. Ну вот наверно как и многие загорелся идеей купить себе электронные часы)) Так как пользуюсь техникой Apple, логичней было купить Apple Watch, но что то меня переклинило)
Имелся опыт использования mi band 2, поэтому заранее знал что большинство заявленных функций по факту использоваться не будет))
Так как я люблю ездить на рыбалку, за грибами и отдыхать на природе, задумался о часах с трекингом. Наткнулся на Garmin Fenix. Для новичка будет трудно разобраться в огромном кол-ве моделей, но все приходит с опытом.
Был заказан с немецкого сайта fenix 5 plus.
Ну скажу так, часы очень специфичны, есть много нюансов, недочетов, а так же мелких косячков. Когда ты платишь такие деньги, плющит от каждой мелочи не слабо)) Кстати о цене, брал я их 26.12.18 вышли мне в 42000р у официалов стоили 74000р привет навиком ха ха)) ну вы поняли о чем я))
Сразу поясню, на все часы кроме внутреннего рынка китая будут русифицированы из коробки.
Начнем пожалуй с положительных моментов.
1. Навигация.
В семье навигаторы гармин лет так 20 наверно, еще с первых этрексов.
Перекинул файлик отца с точками в часы, одним легким движением все точки за многие годы оказались в часах. Конечно же найти карту Топо РФ не составляет труда и ее так же закинул в часы.
Работать с картой можно в разных сценариях.
Лично для меня удобно по весне, когда речки разливаются, на лодке возвращаться по своему треку домой.
Летом в озере объезжать ранее успешные места (по точкам). Очень практично и удобно пользоваться в лесу. Сохранил точку входа в лес и вперед. Работает изумительно.
Зимой на рыбалке батареи при включенном gps и глонасс хватает на день стабильно.
2.Garmin Pay
Оплата с часов, тут в принципе все понятно. Удобно просто.
3. Музыка
Удобно закинуть музыку и подключить беспроводные наушники и на пробежку. Конечно пробежка бывает только до бристоля в 22:50_) Но как связка работает.
4.Спортивные фунции.
Вот наверно ради этого и покупают эти часы. Они для спортсменов в первую очередь. Заморочки с софтом и записью всех параметров и чего ты сам хочешь и бла бла. Но мы то не спортсмены, так что это мимо нас.
Теперь о минусах:
1.Софт. Софт сраное говно! Других слов нет) может выйти очередная прошивка и заряда часов будет хватать на 1 день. Может перестать синхронизироваться или просто что то да перестанет работать.
2. Поддержка. Ух это отдельные черти и котел в аду для них тоже отдельный. Если у вас что то сломается, вам придется нормально так пот**хаться. Хоть гармин и заявляет о мировой гарантии, по факту российский представитель всегда лезет в за*упу и ничего вам не поменяет. Схема такая: обращаетесь в англию. они уже нагибают представителей и тока так. Обратитесь сразу к нашим. считай можешь выкидывать. Переплачивать по 20 тысяч нашим желания нет.
3. Куча других фишек. Например в городе нормального трека вы не получите. Считает шаги когда ты на снегоходе едешь) по ухабам может начать считать этажи. Начнешь заниматься спортом, будешь удивлен что для корректной информации о пульсе нужно докупать пульсометр и тд и тп.
4. Если зайти на форум 4pda перед покупкой, то начитаетесь жути, про часы за 50к у которых коррозия на датчиках, куче брака и многое другое.
P.S часы не стоят тех денег если использовать их как я)