Crypto USD Chart
· v1.5.1
About
CryptoUSD shows the latest USD price for popular cryptocurrencies directly on your Garmin watch.
Controls:
- Menu button: choose coin pair from your favorites
- Select/Start button: choose chart timeframe
- Touch upper half of the screen: choose coin pair from your favorites
- Touch lower half of the screen: choose chart timeframe
- Swipe left: next favorite chart timeframe
- Swipe right: previous favorite chart timeframe
Phone settings:
- Choose favorite coins shown on the watch
- Choose favorite chart timeframes shown on the watch
- Add up to five custom Coinbase USD crypto pairs
- Change appearance with light, dark, auto, and monochrome inverse themes
Custom pair examples:
DOGE, DOGE/USD, DOGEUSD, DOGE-USD
Custom pairs are USD-only and use Coinbase market data. If a custom pair is not available on Coinbase, the app will show the normal API error state.
Built-in pairs:
BTC/USD, ETH/USD, BNB/USD, XRP/USD, SOL/USD, DOGE/USD, HYPE/USD, ADA/USD, ZEC/USD, XLM/USD, LINK/USD, BCH/USD, TON/USD, HBAR/USD, LTC/USD, AVAX/USD, SUI/USD, SHIB/USD, NEAR/USD, CRO/USD, TAO/USD, PAXG/USD, DOT/USD, UNI/USD, WLFI/USD, ASTER/USD, ONDO/USD, SKY/USD, ICP/USD, PEPE/USD, ATOM/USD
Features:
- Lightweight glance with selected pair, latest price, percentage change, and a small chart where supported
- Full app view with current price and simple price history chart
- Selectable chart timeframes: 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, 1 day, and 1 week
- Cached data display when offline
- Background refresh support where available on the device
- Public Coinbase market data
- Color themes for supported color watches
- Monochrome inverse option for supported monochrome watches
This app is for informational purposes only and is not financial advice. Price availability and update timing depend on network connectivity, phone connection, Garmin Connect IQ background scheduling, and the public data provider.
What's new
# Release Notes
## v1.5.1 - 2026-07-13
- Fixed timeframe swipe navigation after the Garmin system timer rolls over.
- Fixed Back handling so the app can exit normally on touchscreen watches, including Venu 3.
- Limited Back suppression to the immediate event that can follow a confirmed right-swipe gesture.
## v1.5.0 - 2026-06-30
- Added swipe left/right navigation for chart timeframes.
- Swipe left moves to the next favorite timeframe.
- Swipe right moves to the previous favorite timeframe.
- Timeframe swipe navigation stops at the first and last favorite timeframe.
- Kept existing menu, button, and touch controls unchanged.
## v1.4.0 - 2026-06-28
- Added custom Coinbase USD crypto pair support from Garmin phone settings.
- Added five custom pair slots with accepted input formats such as `DOGE`, `DOGE/USD`, `DOGEUSD`, and `DOGE-USD`.
- Normalized custom pair inputs to Coinbase `{BASE}-USD` requests.
- Added custom pairs to the watch coin menu after built-in favorite coins.
- Kept built-in favorites visually marked in the watch menu while custom pairs show as plain symbols.
- Refined light theme palettes for stronger chart contrast.
- Added the `Slate Citrus` light theme.
- Renamed light themes to better match their colors: `Rose Teal`, `Lime Blue`, `Slate Citrus`.
- Set `Arctic Blue` as the default light theme.
- Sorted light themes alphabetically in phone settings.
## v1.3.5 - 2026-06-21
- Added configurable color themes and theme mode presets.
- Added light, dark, auto, and monochrome inverse appearance behavior.
- Added shared theme handling for the main app, glance, chart, footer, and status colors.
- Added shared device/display helpers for monochrome and Instinct-specific behavior.
- Fixed glance rendering crash and restored missing glance fields.
- Adjusted glance price and percentage placement.
- Improved monochrome chart grid readability.
- Added monochrome launcher icon resources for Instinct-family devices.
- Added device-specific drawable overrides so monochrome Instinct devices use the mono icon.
## v1.3.3 - 2026-06-07
- Added phone settings for favorite coins.
- Expanded the supported built-in coin list beyond the original default set.
- Updated the watch coin menu to show only selected favorite coins.
- Added phone settings for favorite chart timeframes.
- Added timeframe selection menu instead of direct timeframe rotation.
- Expanded timeframes to `15m`, `1h`, `4h`, `1d`, and `1w`.
- Updated bottom timeframe indicators to match selected favorite timeframes.
- Added grouped phone settings sections for favorites.
- Added menu hint text telling users to edit favorites on the phone.
- Fixed coin menu selection behavior.
- Added beta app id documentation.
## v1.2.2 - 2026-05-25
- Refined the glance chart styling.
- Removed the frame around the glance chart.
- Changed the glance chart color to light blue.
## v1.2.1 - 2026-05-25
- Added bottom timeframe indicators to the main app screen.
- Added one indicator dot per available timeframe.
- Highlighted the active timeframe while leaving inactive indicators muted.
- Preserved the existing rule that hides indicators on tight Instinct ring layouts.
## v1.2.0 - 2026-05-25
- Added a compact daily chart to the glance view.
- Adjusted glance layout so price, percent change, and chart fit together.
- Formatted glance prices with improved decimal behavior.
- Hid decimal places for BTC and ETH in the glance price.
- Swapped chart and percentage positions on the right side of the glance.
- Refined Instinct-specific timeframe placement for non-AMOLED Instinct devices.
## v1.1.1 - 2026-05-20
Initial tagged release.
- Renamed the default template app to `CryptoUSD`.
- Added BTC/USD price fetching and cached data display.
- Split live price and history requests to reduce rate-limit pressure.
- Added selectable built-in crypto pairs.
- Added Coinbase chart history support.
- Added reusable line chart rendering.
- Added current price, chart, timeframe, percent change,