Instinct Tactical
· v2.0.3
About
INSTINCT TACTICAL 2.0
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The legend is back. Now for 87 devices.
A modern, readable and practical watch face for Garmin. Inspired by tactical aesthetics, designed for everyday use: clear information at a glance, efficient battery usage and extensive customization options.
━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━
TIME AND DATE
• Large clock – 12/24 h, optional military display, AM/PM in 12 h mode
• Two digit styles – bold hours + thin minutes, or uniform style
• Three date formats – day of week · day/month · day + month name
• Optional leading zero (01:05 vs 1:05)
• Seconds display without overlapping hour digits
BATTERY
• Remaining days, percentage or both
• Graphical 5-segment battery indicator
• Charging indication (green)
5 CUSTOMIZABLE DATA FIELDS
Each field displays an icon and text. Options include:
• Steps and step goal
• Distance · Altitude · Floors · Calories
• Temperature · Pressure (hPa / inHg)
• Current weather (temperature + condition icon from 12 groups)
• Sunrise / Sunset (automatically the nearest event)
• Heart rate (live)
• Body Battery · Stress level · SpO2
• Intensity minutes (daily / weekly)
• Solar intensity – on supported solar models
PROGRESS BAR
• Source: steps / Body Battery / battery
• Color: dynamic (4 zones by value) or fixed (circle color)
OUTDOOR / MILITARY MODE
• MGRS coordinates from GPS cache
• ZULU date-time (NATO DTG format)
• GPS signal quality indicator (colored dot)
Green - good, yellow - usable, orange - poor, blue - last known, red - none
STATUS
• Bluetooth, alarm, notification icons (recolorable by foreground color)
━━━━━━━━━ CUSTOMIZATION ━━━━━━━━━
• 4 independent colors: foreground · background · clock · circle
• Date format · battery display · data field selection
• Settings directly on the watch (long press UP → Customize)
• Settings from phone (Garmin Connect Mobile)
• All colors optimized for MIP displays (no dithering)
20 LANGUAGES
Czech · Slovak · German · Polish · English · French · Spanish · Italian · Portuguese · Dutch · Danish · Swedish · Finnish · Norwegian · Hungarian · Croatian · Slovenian · Russian · Korean · Chinese
OPTIMIZATION
• Settings loaded only on change, not every frame
• Icons via custom font – recolorable, memory-efficient
• Custom fonts for each display resolution
• Sensor, weather, GPS and license caching
━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORTED DEVICES ━━━━━━━━━
87 devices across 7 resolutions (240–454 px):
• fenix 5 Plus / 6 / 6S / 6X Pro / 7 / 7S / 7X / 8 / 8 Pro / E
• epix (Gen 2) / Pro 42mm / 47mm / 51mm
• Forerunner 245 / 255 / 265 / 570 / 745 / 945 / 955 / 965 / 970
• Venu / 2 / 2S / 2 Plus / 3 / 3S / 4
• vivoactive 3 Music / 4 / 5 / 6
• Enduro / Enduro 3 · Descent Mk2 / Mk3 · D2 Air / Mach 1 / Mach 2
• MARQ Gen 1 + Gen 2 · Instinct 3 AMOLED · Approach S50 / S70
• and more...
━━━━━━━━━ TRIAL VERSION ━━━━━━━━━
After installation, a free trial runs for 72 hours.
After the trial, data fields 3–5 values are hidden in the free version.
━━━━━━━━━ PRO CODE AND DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT ━━━━━━━━━
Support development and unlock the PRO version for 3.49 USD:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EVMDPZMJS3R6Y
After your support, you will receive a PRO code to permanently unlock all features.
Codes are sent manually and delivery may be delayed due to time zone differences.
━━━━━━━━━ COMPATIBILITY AND NOTES ━━━━━━━━━
• Solar intensity and SpO2 are displayed only on models with the respective sensors.
• Weather requires a connected phone with location/data sharing enabled.
• MGRS coordinates come from the last GPS fix of the watch (watch face cannot activate GPS).
• Health metrics (heart rate, SpO2, Body Battery, etc.) are for reference only and are not intended for diagnostics.
What's new
2.0.0 — Major update
• Support expanded from 35 to 87 devices (MIP + AMOLED)
• Custom fonts and pixel-perfect positions for 7 resolutions (240–454 px)
• Two clock digit styles (bold + thin)
• Progress bar: dynamic colors (4 zones) or fixed color
• New icon font (35 icons, recolorable)
• MGRS: more reliable GPS, 30s cache, signal quality indicator
• Colors optimized for MIP displays
• Memory and performance optimization
1.5.0 - On-device settings — change colors, data fields, date format and battery display directly on the watch (long-press UP → Customize)
- Memory optimizations for better stability on all devices
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.4.0 - Added seconds display
1.3.7 - Progress bar source added