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Instinct Tactical

· v2.0.3
★★★★★ (40) ↓ 1,000 downloads 1 Free

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INSTINCT TACTICAL 2.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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

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Details

Compatible with 154 devices
Updated Jun 9, 2026
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