Solo Hour - Cleanest Analog Watch Face
· v1.2.2
About
Presenting the cleanest watch face possible.
A simple and minimal analog watch face: one hand, one number, that's it.
Solo Hour is a clean and elegant analog face for AMOLED Garmin watches. It replaces the hour hand with the hour itself: a single numeral floating at the edge of a completely blank dial, exactly where the hour hand's tip would point, moving around the dial as the day passes. One slender minute hand. Nothing else to read, because nothing else is there.
Designed with love considering only 3 values - Neat, Clean and Minimal.
If you love one-hand watches, this face speaks your language. Solo Hour reads like a single-hand watch on your wrist: the floating hour numeral sits exactly where the tip of a lone hour hand would be, in the spirit of slow watch design, where one glance tells you the hour and how far into it you are. The slender minute hand adds precision without adding noise.
No clutter, no data fields, no widgets, no logo. Every pixel that isn't the time was deliberately left out. What's left is built with care: the hour numeral is pre-rendered at every angle so it stays razor-sharp as it turns, never upside down; the minute hand carries a hairline drop shadow that makes it feel machined rather than drawn; the hand steps once a minute like a railway clock instead of drifting; and the always-on display is tuned to true black so it costs your battery almost nothing.
MINIMALIST DESIGN
• A pure, uncluttered, minimal dial: no ticks, no numbers ring, no branding
• The floating hour numeral, radially aligned and always legible (never upside down)
• A slender minute hand with a subtle shadow, like a real mechanical hand
• Simple date in a small circle, positioned where you like it (auto, top, bottom, left, right), or hidden
• Optional smooth-sweeping seconds dot while your wrist is raised
• White or black dial, strictly monochrome, deliberately
• Clean, modern, understated. A quiet face for people who dislike busy watch faces
BATTERY-FRIENDLY BY DESIGN
• True-black AMOLED always-on display (AOD) with just the dim hand and hour numeral
• No sensors, no network, no background work, no permissions. This face only tells the time
• Instant loading: no data to fetch, nothing to compute
WORKS ON
Venu / Venu 2 / 2S / 2 Plus / 3 / 3S, Venu 4 / 4S, Venu Sq 2 / Sq 2 Music, Venu X1, Vivoactive 5 / 6, Forerunner 165 / 265 / 265S / 570 / 965 / 970, Epix (Gen 2) / Epix Pro, Fenix 8 AMOLED / Fenix E, Instinct 3 AMOLED, Approach S50 / S70, MARQ Gen 2, D2 Air / Air X10 / Mach 1, Descent G2 / Mk3. 44 AMOLED models in all, round and rectangular. (AMOLED only. See Compatible Devices for the full list.)
FREE, FULL-FEATURED, FOREVER
Solo Hour is completely free. No trial, no code and no purchase of any kind. Just install it and enjoy.
SETTINGS (Garmin Connect app)
• Dial: White / Black
• Date: on/off + position
• Seconds dot: on/off
12h and 24h supported (follows your watch's system setting).
Email me before a bad review and I will fix it
Check out my other watch faces and apps:
* 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
* Streak - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/fa5dafce-f0ed-4224-ab9e-ecbb0566a373
* Moment Breakdown App - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/37729b5d-97b2-4933-adfc-511af32a52ff
* Digital Coach - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/9476faf6-f2d6-49e4-bb64-a5f6d5434d82
Cheers and ENJOY!
What's new
1.2.1
Introducing the first color in this watch. You can now show HR instead of date with a red heart
1.1.0
Solo Hour now runs on rectangular AMOLED watches: Venu Sq 2, Venu Sq 2 Music and Venu X1. On those screens the floating hour numeral follows the shape of the display instead of sitting inside a small circle, so the face fills the watch properly. Round watches look exactly as they did before. This update also brings Solo Hour to the Venu (first generation) and the D2 Air.
1.0.3
Solo Hour is free for everyone, with no trial, no code and no purchase. If you were on the old version, this update simply removes the paywall.
If you are running into problems or bugs, please contact me via "Contact Developer" or "Report a Problem" option before writing a bad review. I'm a hard-worker and a pro-active guy and I can guarantee to resolve your issues immediately :)
Thanks and I hope you enjoy this one :)
If Solo Hour has earned a spot on your wrist, a short review here goes a long way for a small independent watch face. Found a bug? Email me at [email protected] and I will fix it quickly.