Skip to main content

Try out these 10 Android Wear watch faces

android wear 2017 guide watchphone feature
Image used with permission by copyright holder
Android Wear doesn’t just extend the notifications from your smartphone to your wrist, but it also doubles as an attractive watch that’s designed as a high-tech alternative to a traditional timepiece. A large part of that is the watch face you have on it, whether you’re keen on rocking an adorable feline or the iconic work of the late Van Gogh. There are a lot of Android Wear watch faces out there, but below are a few of our favorites.

HeyKittyKitty

Cat Face
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Why wouldn’t you want to see an adorable kitty every time you glanced at your watch? Smartwatch design company WatchMaster designed this interactive face, which lets you tap on the kitten to view a cute animation, and, well, that’s more or less it. It touts a clean aesthetic, too, and the cat even goes to sleep when your watch goes into ambient mode.

Moods of Norway

Moods Gall 2
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Moods of Norway is the endeavor of another fashion design. A Norwegian-based designer created the beautiful watch face app, which touts 36 simple faces that change during set events throughout the year. You can also set the watch faces independent of the events, but sadly, each face only functions as a 24-hour clock.

Muzei

Muz 1
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Muzei is a live wallpaper app that also supports Android Wear. The app pulls famous artwork and sets it as your wallpaper every 24 hours, and that extends to your Android Wear smartwatch as well. You can also set it to pull wallpapers from certain sites, or if you prefer, from your own photos.

Ted Baker

Ted Baker Face
Image used with permission by copyright holder

This gorgeous watch face represents one from Google’s recent collaborations with several fashion designers. Each watch has a different print and matches Ted Baker’s style, and more detail is revealed as the hour passes. Tapping the face also inverts the patterns, which is pretty neat.

Universal ($1)

Space Gall
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Universal is another watch face that requires the Facer app. Built by James Viola on the Facer app, it features a rocket on the second hand orbiting planets. It doesn’t offer much else other than that, but it’s pretty nice to look at.

Mysterious Forest

Tree Gall
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Mysterious Forest, another watch face courtesy of the WatchMaster group, has an apt name that suits the face’s mysterious theme. Every time you tap the watch, a fox, deer, or rabbit will pop up. Apart from that, however, it showcases a fairly minimal design with unique, painted-esque artwork.

Lunar ($1)

Lunar Gall
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Lunar is a watch face made by Reddit user SKielbasa. There are a lot more, all which require the Facer app. The app houses a notable selection of community-created watch faces that you can browse through, or you can even take a shot at making your own. SKielbasa says the hour hand is a cutout in the disk, which reveals the hour number as time passes. You can view the rest of the watch faces and grab this particular one here.

Space and Time Watch Face

Space Clock II
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Space and Time is a pretty straightforward watch face that has a rocket ship rotating around a planet, similar to the Universal design on Facer. It provides the date and time, while presenting you with 12 and 24-hour options. Apart from that, it’s just a really nice-looking watch face.

Pac-Man Watch Face ($0.99)

Pac II
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Because why not? There are a host of watch faces featuring various games, and this one looks good. It doesn’t offer much in terms of functionality, but Pac-Man does race around the watch — eating ghosts and fruit — as a replacement for the second hand.

Pujie Black ($1.79)

Black Gall
Image used with permission by copyright holder

Pujie Black is a customizable watch making app that also conveniently offers interactive buttons on the face for quickly accessing things such as Google Fit, the weather, and your agenda. You can customize it further, too, and change details such as how long the minute and hour hands should be, or their respective colors. You can browse through other designs on the Google+ community and grab presets to use.

Those are all the Android Wear watch faces we have for now, but check back soon. We’ll update this list with more as time goes on. If you’ve got a favorite, tell us in the comments.

Editors' Recommendations

Julian Chokkattu
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Julian is the mobile and wearables editor at Digital Trends, covering smartphones, fitness trackers, smartwatches, and more…
The best Wear OS apps for your Google-powered smartwatch
Looking at a smartwatch using the Wear OS.

Some of the best smartwatches run Wear OS , and there are loads of apps that add all sorts of handy capabilities. A great Wear OS app does more than just send notifications to your wrist -- they entertain, track your fitness and health, help you to stay organized, and can indirectly save your phone's battery life, as you're checking your wrist rather than your phone's display.

With all of that in mind, here are our picks of the best Wear OS apps. Most of these apps still rely on a partner app on your smartphone, but a few offer stand-alone functionality. Either way, they're all must-haves for your Wear OS smartwatch.

Read more
Withings smart ScanWatch Horizon looks just like a desirable diver’s watch
Withings ScanWatch Horizon green dial.

Withings may have made one of the most desirable smartwatches of the year. The new ScanWatch Horizon puts the already excellent ScanWatch health and fitness technology inside an extremely popular diver’s watch-style case, and it comes with either a blue or green dial and bezel to tap into the latest trends in watch design. Despite mechanical diver’s watches being popular, they’re not well-represented in the smartwatch realm. It looks like Withings has got the design just right for the Horizon.

Made of stainless steel, the case measures 43mm — a tiny bit larger than the 42mm ScanWatch — and is 13mm thick, with flat, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal over the dial. The rotating bezel is also made of stainless steel and has laser-etched minute markings, while the dial has oversize indices and large hands, both of which have a luminous coating. It’s water0resistant to 10ATM or 100 meters. You get a choice of straps in the box, with an oyster metal link band for a stylish everyday look or a fluoroelastomer strap for sport or diving.

Read more
Google is finally bringing YouTube Music to older Wear OS watches
youtube launches music feat

Google earlier this year brought the YouTube Music app to Samsung's new Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic watches which both run Wear OS 3. It is now doing the same to older Wear OS watches running Wear OS 2. Not all watches will get it at immediately, though. The company will deliver it first to a select few Android smartwatches, before then rolling it out to more devices "later this year" via the Google Play Store.

The initial app rollout will come sometime this week, and it'll hit the Fossil Gen 6 smartwatch (Michael Kors Access 6 version included), the Mobvoi’s TicWatch Pro 3 GPS, the TicWatch Pro 3 Cellular/LTE, and the TicWatch E3. While Google doesn't exactly say it, these watches are all more powerful Snapdragon Wear 4100 watches. It's possible the company still needs more time to optimize the app for older Wear OS watches which typically have much weaker hardware.

Read more