Ahead

If you have ADHD or time blindness, you have probably tried setting your watch fast. Ahead deliberately shows the wrong time. It runs a few minutes fast and never tells you how many. If your watch reads a few minutes ahead of your phone, that is the watch face working, not a bug. Ahead picks a random offset inside a range you choose, 2 to 20 minutes by default, and changes it several times a day at times you cannot predict. The amount is never shown on the watch or in the settings. There is nothing to subtract. So when the watch reads 8:52, you do not know whether it is really 8:50 or 8:34. The safe move is to leave now. That small uncertainty is what gets you out the door. HOW IT STAYS HONEST A plus sign sits next to the time whenever the face is running fast. Switch the offset off and the plus goes dark and you see true time. The face never shows a shifted time without saying that it is shifted. The clock never runs backwards while you are looking at it. If a new offset is smaller than the last one, the change waits until you look away, so you are never handed back time you do not have. Nothing else on your watch changes. Alarms, timers, activities and system time all stay real. The offset lives only on this watch face. Seconds, when you switch them on, are true seconds. A SCHEDULE, IF YOU WANT ONE You can have the offset run all the time, or only when it helps. Pick the days and a window, or write several windows out for a week. Outside the window the plus goes dark and the watch shows true time. Every window opens on a fresh offset, so watching the boundary does not teach you the number. For different hours on different days, the advanced field takes one line like this: MO,TH 05:00-07:00; TU,FR 05:00-08:30; WE 05:00-10:05 That is Monday and Thursday from five to seven, Tuesday and Friday from five to half past eight, Wednesday from five to five past ten, and nothing at the weekend. Semicolons between windows, days before the hours, up to six windows. DAILY, WEEKDAYS and WEEKENDS also work. DESIGN Retro LCD styling with seven segment digits, visible unlit segments, a weekday strip and a date dial. Five themes: LCD, green on black, amber on black, white on black, and one that takes any colour you type in as a hex code and draws the whole face in it. On an always on display you can keep the whole face rather than a stripped down clock, unlit segments and all, at a brightness and a stroke weight you choose. Or keep the sparse layout if you would rather save the battery. Always on is the most expensive thing this face does, and the battery saver style is the only one that is genuinely cheap. Six complication slots. Choose from steps, heart rate, battery, notifications, Body Battery, calories, alarms, Bluetooth, sunrise and sunset, distance, floors climbed, date, week number, temperature, stress, respiration, active minutes, step goal, altitude, barometer, recovery time and solar intensity. The sixth slot is a row under the bottom bar, off by default, and it draws on every supported watch. SETTINGS The settings screen is a switch and seven sections, so nothing is more than one tap deep. Run the clock fast, on or off How far ahead: smallest, largest, how often it changes When it runs fast: always, a daily window, or a written schedule Look of the face: theme, your own colour, unlit segments, seconds Always on display: style, thickness, brightness, colour, unlit segments What the face shows: six slots Free. No ads, no accounts, no data collection. Appreciate tips to help keep these free. https://ko-fi.com/mtovarg

Version 1.2 All of this came from things people asked for after 1.1. THE BOTTOM LINE NOW WORKS ON EVERY WATCH The extra complication row under the bottom bar was hidden on smaller screens. That was my mistake rather than a limit of the hardware: I worked out that the row would not fit and never rendered it to check. It fits. It now draws on every supported watch, including the smallest ones, and 41 round models that could never show it before can show it now. TWO NEW THEMES White on black, which several of you asked for by name. And one that takes any colour you like. Type a hex code into the settings, for example 1E90FF for blue, FF3B7F for pink or FFD400 for yellow, pick the last theme, and the whole face is drawn in it on black: digits, labels, weekday strip, unlit segments, all of it. If what you type is not a colour code the face reads white rather than disappearing. A SETTINGS SCREEN YOU CAN READ There were thirty settings in one flat list and it was a mess. It is now a single switch and seven sections, so nothing is more than one tap deep, and every label has been rewritten. Rows that only apply in one mode say so in their own name. The advanced schedule field now carries a worked example of different hours on different days, which is what most people were trying to write: MO,TH 05:00-07:00; TU,FR 05:00-08:30; WE 05:00-10:05 BATTERY If you noticed the battery getting worse after 1.1, some of that was mine. The face was waking in the background every five minutes to check whether the offset was due to change, which it needs to do about six times a day, and it redrew the whole screen on every one of those wakes even when nothing had changed. Both are fixed. The larger part is the always on display, and that part is simply what always on costs on any watch face. If battery matters more to you than the look, set the always on style to battery saver. It is the only one of the three that is genuinely cheap, and the settings now say so. IN 1.1, IF YOU MISSED IT The full face on always on displays instead of a stripped down clock, with a colour, thickness and brightness you pick. A schedule, so the offset only runs when you want it to. Two more complication slots and eleven more things to put in them. And a background service that had never actually run, so the offset now changes while you are asleep or not looking, which is the case this face exists for. Still built and tested on a Forerunner 965. It compiles for 119 devices, so layout reports from other models are especially useful. The plus sign next to the time still means the same thing. Lit, the face is running fast. Dark, you are looking at the real time.