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Alpha Three

· v1.4.0
★★★★★ (6) ↓ 10 downloads 1 Free

About

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alpha Three is a premium futuristic watch face built for users who want bold design, clean hierarchy, and serious data at a glance. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ultra-low battery drain Its signature matrix aesthetic combines a modern digital look with sharp readability across supported resolutions. The result is a watch face that feels technical, refined, and distinctive without becoming noisy. Alpha Three is highly customizable: - Large central time with optional ghost effect - Full AOD support with the same visual identity as the active screen - Two configurable data rows - Four configurable widgets - Two configurable top and bottom bars - Five bar styles, from classic to more expressive premium layouts - Flexible color controls for a personalized look It is also built for people who actually use their watch data: - Activity, health, weather, battery, and recovery metrics - Weekly Run Distance and Weekly Cycling Distance - Race prediction and race pace metrics - Visibility, cloud cover, and stress score - Battery and Battery Days widgets for a cleaner minimalist setup Alpha Three is designed to look premium, feel modern, and stay readable all day, whether you want a clean luxury-tech watch face or a more performance-driven dashboard. If you want a watch face that feels futuristic, customizable, and purpose-built instead of generic, Alpha Three delivers exactly that.

What's new

v.1.4.0 - cleanup v.1.3.9 - Fixed weather disappearing after night. (Thank you, Denis Flores, for bringing this to my attention.) - Fixed sunrise/sunset displaying --:--. (Thank you, Martijn van Maaren, for bringing this to my attention.) - Improved metric accuracy and missing-data display. v.1.3.8 MEGA UPDATE - Added full support for Forerunner 165 and Forerunner 165 Music, with dedicated device profiles and optimized visual resources. - Added Next Tide to all six Data Row slots, displaying the next HI/LO event and local tide time. - Added Tide Cycle to the upper and lower progress bars, Circle Graph and Rail Mini, showing progress toward the next high or low tide. - Added automatic or manual tide location, background refresh, offline caching and clear stale-data handling. - Added an elegant five-dot Circle Graph for the top-center Data Row slot. - Added a compact seven-segment Rail Mini alternative. - Made Circle Graph the default top-center visualization for new installations. - Expanded the shared gradient collection across time, both large progress bars, Circle Graph and Rail Mini. - Added Coral Frost, Military Desert, Military Urban and Military Navy gradient palettes. - Professionally recalibrated the military palettes with coyote and desert-sand tones, gunmetal and gray-olive tones, plus naval and steel-blue tones. - Made Sunset Coral the default gradient for time and all three graph areas. - Added custom color presets, Electric Yellow and dedicated HEX overrides for the large bars, Circle Graph and Rail Mini. - Corrected gradient direction and restored full-intensity colors across every graph. - Improved segment filling according to each metric’s meaning: goal completion, remaining resources or increasing risk. - Reorganized Settings into eight focused sections: Time, Progress Bars & Mini Graph, Top Data Row, Bottom Data Row, Widgets, Display & Colors, Units & Time Zone, and Tide. - Grouped each component’s metric, gradient, color preset and HEX controls together for faster, clearer customization. - Added clearer setting dependencies and validated manual tide coordinates. - Removed the obsolete Precision Dial and Circular Progress modes. - Updated the default Data Rows to Temp + Rain / MoveBar Pro / Distance and Heart Rate / Steps / Battery. - Made Capsule Rail the default style for both large progress bars and improved cell spacing for a cleaner appearance. - Rebalanced the 454×454 layout by centering time and widgets and harmonizing vertical spacing. - Improved metric freshness and clearly separated valid, stale, missing and unavailable data. - Improved wheelchair support with pushes, push goal and push distance. - Corrected sensor timestamps, wind units and complication-unit validation. - Removed unreliable estimated metrics that could not provide trustworthy data. - Refactored rendering and metric processing for improved stability and less repeated runtime work. - Preserved valid graph, gradient and color preferences already saved by existing users. v.1.2.2 - Added matrix font support consistency for Battery Days and Altitude. - Improved compact metric labels and polish for a cleaner display. v.1.2.1 - New AOD option: Full + Graphs - Upper and lower graphs can now be shown in AOD - This is now the default AOD mode for new installs v.1.1.9 - Updated Temp+Rain to show rain probability in the label. - Raised the top data row for a cleaner layout across all supported resolutions. v.1.1.8 - Added UV Index as a selectable metric in Data Row and Data Row 2 - Refined the Baro Trend widget with a cleaner downward chevron

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Compatible with 30 devices
Updated Jul 18, 2026
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