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Discovering Customizable Garmin Watch Faces that Match Apple's Activity Rings
For fitness enthusiasts seeking a more personalized approach to their Garmin watches, a few watch faces stand out as the best options. These watch faces offer features similar to Apple’s activity rings, such as tracking calories, steps, body battery, and heart rate, while maintaining good battery life.
Among these, the Rondo and Segment34 watch faces are particularly noteworthy.
Rondo offers a wide range of customizable options, allowing users to select from Garmin’s health metrics like body battery, stress level, recovery time, calories, and steps. The watch face also boasts a highly customizable color scheme, remaining easy to read even with the screen dimmed, without noticeable battery drain on newer Garmin devices.
Segment34, on the other hand, offers a clear, organized layout with large bright numbers visible even when the display is dimmed. You can customize almost every element, including numbers style, color presets, and the exact stats to display, giving you a tailored experience resembling Apple’s rings in terms of activity visibility. It also has minimal impact on battery life.
Another watch face with rich customization like Omen may offer many data fields but can run in the background and potentially affect battery longevity, so it is less optimal if battery life is a priority.
Here's a comparison of these watch faces:
| Watch Face | Customizable Features | Similarity to Apple Rings | Battery Impact | Additional Info | |------------|-----------------------|--------------------------|----------------|-----------------| | Rondo | Body battery, stress, recovery, calories, steps, color scheme | Tracks health/activity metrics visually | Minimal/no noticeable drain | Good dimmed visibility and touchscreen interaction[1] | | Segment34 | Stats choice, color, number style, clear always-on display | Displays multiple stats cleanly, fitting for activity tracking | Minimal/no drain | Highly customizable, clean layout[3] | | Omen | Up to 6 data fields, style customization | Activity data | Potential battery drain due to background running | Stylish but may affect battery life[5] |
For those looking to enhance their fitness tracking experience beyond the standard Garmin watch faces, the Goals watch face is a popular choice among users. It offers options to measure statistics like steps, movement, calories, floors climbed, monthly walking minutes, and time to recover in hours. The Goals watch face is highly motivating, similar to the Apple Watch rings, and is available on various Garmin watches, including the Forerunner 570, Forerunner 970, and Epix Pro.
Moreover, the Goals watch face can be completely customized to suit the user's style, and it does not affect the battery life of these Garmin watches. The user can download the Goals watch face from the Connect IQ app and move it from one Garmin watch to another if needed.
For those looking to lose weight, active calories help ensure a calorie deficit, burning more calories than consumed. The Goals watch face displays active calories, a stat not commonly visible on most of Garmin's built-in watch faces, making it an excellent choice for those focusing on weight loss.
In conclusion, for fitness enthusiasts seeking customizable Garmin watch faces that offer features similar to Apple’s activity rings while maintaining good battery life, Rondo and Segment34 are the best options. Meanwhile, the Goals watch face provides a more personalized fitness tracking experience for those who want to go beyond the standard move, exercise, and stand rings on the Apple Watch.
[1] Source: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/app/17332 [2] Source: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/app/18114 [3] Source: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/app/18144 [4] Source: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/app/14696 [5] Source: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/app/16580
- In addition to customizable Garmin watch faces, health-and-wellness enthusiasts may find interest in fitness gadgets such as wearables that track various health metrics, like the Garmin fitness watches we've discussed.
- Beyond Apple's activity rings and fitness-and-wellness tracking, technology has evolved to include smart scales that measure weight, body fat, and BMI, providing a comprehensive view of an individual's health and physical fitness.
- For science and technology aficionados, the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of health-and-wellness is a significant advancement, with AI algorithms often used to analyze health data and provide personalized fitness recommendations, further enhancing overall well-being.
