Digital Coach Dot Matrix Watch Face

A clean dot-matrix watch face for round AMOLED Garmin watches, with a coach that actually reads you. White dot-matrix time on true black, a date and weather row, and one short coaching line underneath. Most faces hand you numbers and leave the reading to you. This one does the reading: it watches your Body Battery, stress, heart rate and movement, learns what normal looks like FOR YOU, and says one calm thing about it. Three or four words. It will not nag. All of it runs on the watch. No account, no network, no subscription, and nothing ever leaves your wrist. Free, and it stays free. THE FACE * Dot-matrix digital time, built for black AMOLED screens * Date, weather and current temperature in one row * A coaching line that learns your baselines and holds steady between glances * A real always-on display, not a dimmed copy of the awake one * 12 accent colours: Ember, Tangerine, Coral, Rose, Fuchsia, Violet, Indigo, Sky, Ice, Teal, Mint and Lime. Only the accent changes, the face stays black and white. SETTINGS (in Garmin Connect: open Digital Coach, then Settings) * ACCENT COLOUR: pick one of the 12. * SHOW COACHING SUGGESTION: hide the line for a clean, time-only face. * BLINK COLON: blinks the ":" once a second while the watch is awake, solid when off. No effect on the always-on screen, which cannot update every second. * ALWAYS-ON STYLE: Minimal is time only and lightest on battery. Coach is time plus your current coaching keyword, so the coach stays on your wrist. * COACH FOCUS: Recovery, Activity, Calm, Sleep. Turn on any combination to steer the coaching toward what matters to you. All off is a balanced mix. Genuinely urgent cues, like high stress, still come through whatever you choose. * DAILY RECAP: once each morning the line reads back yesterday's activity and your recent trend, then returns to live coaching. SETUP, ABOUT A MINUTE Digital Coach uses your watch's own weather. If the temperature shows "--", open Garmin Connect, turn Weather on, and check that your watch has synced and has a location. The coaching sharpens after a day or two, once it has learned your normal ranges. There is no account to create. LANGUAGES: English, Deutsch, Français and Русский. The coaching, the date and every setting follow your watch's system language. WORKS ON round AMOLED Garmin watches: Venu 2/2S/2 Plus/3/3S/4, Forerunner 165/265/265S/570/965/970, fenix 8/8 Pro/E, epix Gen 2 and epix Pro, vivoactive 5/6, Instinct 3 AMOLED, Instinct Crossover AMOLED, MARQ Gen 2, Descent G2/Mk3, Approach S50/S70, and the D2 series. See Compatible Devices for the full list. PRIVATE BY DESIGN: no ads, no login, no subscription, and your health signals never leave the watch. WANT THE COACHING TO GO FURTHER? Digital Coach Pro is the paid sibling of this face. It adds the Moment ring, a 0 to 100 score of how well right now suits you with a phase verdict (PRIME, MOVE, EASE or REST), three configurable gauges drawn from 23 metrics, detailed weather, any accent colour you can type as hex, and the Moment Breakdown app that shows the working behind the score. 24 hour trial, then one payment, no subscription: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/910b3635-e3ca-42fa-93eb-557aed246508 THE TIP JAR Digital Coach is free and stays free. If it earned a place on your wrist and you would like to say thanks, pay what you want: https://pd7.gumroad.com/l/tipjar Email me before a bad review and I will fix it Check out my other watch faces: * Digital Coach Pro - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/910b3635-e3ca-42fa-93eb-557aed246508 * The Chronicle - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/85555df1-881b-4fcc-9cf9-a600843597a8 * Solo Hour - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/a7420a73-7865-4d77-bdea-771080f7f490 * Streak - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/fa5dafce-f0ed-4224-ab9e-ecbb0566a373

[1.0.25] - 2026-07-16 - Quicker and a little easier on the battery. The face redraws faster and does less work each time you glance at it, and it looks exactly the same as before. [1.0.24] - 2026-07-10 - Faster loading and waking, so less time looking at a black screen when you raise your wrist. [1.0.23] - 2026-07-09 - Fixed the face dimming to its always-on look while the screen was still lit, after dismissing a notification. [1.0.22] - 2026-07-08 - Fixed the always-on display going blank a moment after the face appeared (reported on Venu 3S). [1.0.21] - 2026-07-07 - Fixed the face staying black when you woke the watch with a tap or a wrist gesture (reported on vivoactive 6).