Alpha Three
· v1.4.0
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