u/Virtual_Sea_5638

Hey! I recently got interested in Japanese walking and ended up making an app for it: Japanese Walking Pro.

It’s an interval training method developed by researchers at Shinshu University in Japan. You walk briskly for 3 minutes, enough to get you breathing harder, then slow down for 3 minutes to recover while still moving. Five rounds make a 30-minute workout that can help improve your fitness without running.

The app keeps track of time and vibrates when it’s time to change pace, so you don’t have to keep checking your watch. You can customize the intervals, check your heart rate, and the whole walk is saved to Garmin Connect.

Has anyone here tried Japanese walking? How’s it been working for you?

The plugin remembers:

• Browser windows and tabs, including the browser and profile you were using. It supports Chrome, Edge, Comet and other Chromium-based browsers.
• File Explorer folders and documents, which reopen in their own apps.
• Window sizes and positions, including across multiple monitors.

You can have separate keys for work, hobbies or an evening of gaming. Each key shows a screenshot of the saved desktop or the app icons, so you can see what it contains at a glance. You can also set up workspace switching so opening one hides the others, or open workspaces on separate virtual desktops.

Desk Loadout waits for windows to appear before positioning them. If an app is already running, it doesn’t launch it again.

This is my paid plugin, available on Elgato Marketplace.

https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/desk-loadout-add99b59-4e3c-4f05-a12c-be39d6b26a5e

Would this fit into your daily routine? Curious how you’d use it.

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on a little game for Garmin called Babel Tower and wanted to share it here.

A crane swings a floor over your tower. You tap the screen or press START to drop it. The goal is 100 floors and a golden spire at the top.

The catch: every floor stays exactly where it lands. Drop one off-center and the whole tower’s balance shifts. Keep doing that and you’re building on an increasingly questionable foundation.

Perfect drops help pull the tower back toward the center, so you can actually recover from earlier mistakes. But the tower gets narrower as you climb.

There’s also a global leaderboard if you want to chase someone else’s score. You can play offline; your best score uploads when you reconnect. It works entirely with buttons too.

To be upfront: I’m the developer, and it’s a paid game. No ads or tracking.

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/01720acb-a94b-495f-9a54-fe31665e6dd5

Would be curious to hear what you think, especially whether you’d play something like this on your watch.

A while ago I showed Kolorofon here, a plugin that turns your whole Stream Deck into a visualizer for your system audio. Update 1.1 is out, so here is a short rundown of what changed.

New Disco mode. A stage appears on the deck with three dancing figures, light beams and a podium. The choreography is procedural: nothing is recorded or looped, the plugin detects the tempo, energy and accents of the track live and builds the dance from that on the fly. Calm music means a calm groove, fast music means dense choreography. This is an experimental version I will keep working on, so feedback is very welcome.

Amoeba has been heavily optimized, with no change to how it looks.

I also implemented an idea from one of the users: the launcher key can now show a live mini equalizer in the colors of your theme instead of a static icon, playing along with the music even in a regular profile. A mini Kolorofon on a single key.

Thanks to everyone for the ideas and suggestions, quite a few of them made it onto the list for the next versions.

https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/kolorofon-c89f668a-d18c-41a6-bc9e-912421b437f1

I just released Regent, an analog watch face in the spirit of a classic dress watch: a deep dial with a silky sheen, embossed guilloche, applied indices with cast shadows, and beveled hands. Date at 3 o'clock.

Choose from 4 dial colors (navy, emerald, onyx, oxblood) and 2 metals (gold, rhodium). Always-On is the same dial, just dimmed.

AMOLED only, with graphics rendered natively for each model's resolution. $2.99, no subscription.

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/0f87a872-69b7-4d2c-a2ef-f670097b64e5

I just released Regent, an analog watch face in the spirit of a classic dress watch: a deep dial with a silky sheen, embossed guilloche, applied indices with cast shadows, and beveled hands. Date at 3 o'clock.

Choose from 4 dial colors (navy, emerald, onyx, oxblood) and 2 metals (gold, rhodium). Always-On is the same dial, just dimmed.

AMOLED only, with graphics rendered natively for each model's resolution. $2.99, no subscription.

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/0f87a872-69b7-4d2c-a2ef-f670097b64e5

I just released Regent, an analog watch face in the spirit of a classic dress watch: a deep dial with a silky sheen, embossed guilloche, applied indices with cast shadows, and beveled hands. Date at 3 o'clock.

Choose from 4 dial colors (navy, emerald, onyx, oxblood) and 2 metals (gold, rhodium). Always-On is the same dial, just dimmed.

AMOLED only, with graphics rendered natively for each model's resolution. $2.99, no subscription.

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/0f87a872-69b7-4d2c-a2ef-f670097b64e5

I made a Garmin watch face that shows pollen levels and air quality without taking out your phone.

At the bottom, you can see pollen levels for trees, grass, and weeds on a 0-4 scale. At the top, there’s the European Air Quality Index plus information showing how many minutes ago the data was updated.

The watch face refreshes the data automatically once an hour through your phone. No setup, just install it and it works.

The data comes from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and covers 65 countries across Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and parts of North Africa.

I also set up a regional restriction in the Connect IQ Store. If you’re outside the supported area, the watch face simply won’t appear in the store or in search results.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/3d395687-fe6b-4f31-acdb-0abe5ed3976b

Price: $2.99.

I’d love to hear what you think is missing.

A week ago I showed you a visualizer that turns the whole deck into one animation reacting to sound. There was a lot of interest and the question I got most was when it would be available, so here it is: it just went live in the store.

It was going to be plainly called Music Visualizer, but I named it Kolorofon instead. It is a retro name that in my country means a device that turns music into light and color, which is exactly what this plugin does with your deck.

What it has right now:

Two styles, a spectrum analyzer spread across every key and an amoeba that bass pushes to the left and treble pulls to the right.

Nine color themes.

Windows only for now.

Supported devices: Stream Deck, Stream Deck MK.2, Stream Deck XL, Stream Deck + XL.

The plugin is paid.

I am posting a direct link because searching for it by name in the store does not work yet, even though it is already there. It looks like an indexing delay. I hope this does not break any rule of this subreddit, but without the link nobody will find it.

https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/kolorofon-c89f668a-d18c-41a6-bc9e-912421b437f1

I plan to keep developing it actively and add more effects over time. If you have ideas, feedback, something does not work or you run into a bug, just write. I fix things quickly.

This is Kolorofon, a side project of mine. It grabs whatever your PC is playing (direct system loopback, no mic) and turns the whole deck into one big animation reacting in real time. Two effects so far (spectrum bars and an "amoeba" pushed around by the music), five color themes, and a small control bar that only appears when you tap the right column.

Would you use something like this? Any effects or features you'd want to see?

Been building this one for a while, and it’s finally in the Garmin store.

The idea was simple: one figure at dusk, with nothing competing for attention.

A lone samurai stands at the edge of a red sun, sword lowered, not fighting anyone. On an AMOLED screen, the black pixels are completely off, so he feels like he’s standing in actual darkness rather than inside a black rectangle.

Red appears in only two places: the sun and the minutes. It stays an accent instead of becoming decoration.

The stacked clock sits on the left, with white hours above red minutes. On the right are three configurable data fields, each selectable from 14 options, including steps, heart rate, battery days, Body Battery, stress, sunrise, sunset, and more.

Hold any field to open the matching Garmin app directly.

Samurai Dusk is made for AMOLED Garmin watches, supports 43 models, and costs $2.99.

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/b6169074-88ff-43bd-9998-a8615c11f285

Happy to answer any questions. And if something looks wrong on your watch model, let me know and I’ll fix it.

Been building this one for a while, and it’s finally in the Garmin store.

The idea was simple: one figure at dusk, with nothing competing for attention.

A lone samurai stands at the edge of a red sun, sword lowered, not fighting anyone. On an AMOLED screen, the black pixels are completely off, so he feels like he’s standing in actual darkness rather than inside a black rectangle.

Red appears in only two places: the sun and the minutes. It stays an accent instead of becoming decoration.

The stacked clock sits on the left, with white hours above red minutes. On the right are three configurable data fields, each selectable from 14 options, including steps, heart rate, battery days, Body Battery, stress, sunrise, sunset, and more.

Hold any field to open the matching Garmin app directly.

Samurai Dusk is made for AMOLED Garmin watches, supports 43 models, and costs $2.99.

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/b6169074-88ff-43bd-9998-a8615c11f285

Happy to answer any questions. And if something looks wrong on your watch model, let me know and I’ll fix it.

Been building this one for a while, and it’s finally in the Garmin store.

The idea was simple: one figure at dusk, with nothing competing for attention.

A lone samurai stands at the edge of a red sun, sword lowered, not fighting anyone. On an AMOLED screen, the black pixels are completely off, so he feels like he’s standing in actual darkness rather than inside a black rectangle.

Red appears in only two places: the sun and the minutes. It stays an accent instead of becoming decoration.

The stacked clock sits on the left, with white hours above red minutes. On the right are three configurable data fields, each selectable from 14 options, including steps, heart rate, battery days, Body Battery, stress, sunrise, sunset, and more.

Hold any field to open the matching Garmin app directly.

Samurai Dusk is made for AMOLED Garmin watches, supports 43 models, and costs $2.99.

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/b6169074-88ff-43bd-9998-a8615c11f285

Happy to answer any questions. And if something looks wrong on your watch model, let me know and I’ll fix it.

Been building this one for a while, and it’s finally in the Garmin store.

The idea was simple: one figure at dusk, with nothing competing for attention.

A lone samurai stands at the edge of a red sun, sword lowered, not fighting anyone. On an AMOLED screen, the black pixels are completely off, so he feels like he’s standing in actual darkness rather than inside a black rectangle.

Red appears in only two places: the sun and the minutes. It stays an accent instead of becoming decoration.

The stacked clock sits on the left, with white hours above red minutes. On the right are three configurable data fields, each selectable from 14 options, including steps, heart rate, battery days, Body Battery, stress, sunrise, sunset, and more.

Hold any field to open the matching Garmin app directly.

Samurai Dusk is made for AMOLED Garmin watches, supports 43 models, and costs $2.99.

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/b6169074-88ff-43bd-9998-a8615c11f285

Happy to answer any questions. And if something looks wrong on your watch model, let me know and I’ll fix it.

I have ADHD and the Pomodoro technique is honestly the only thing that reliably gets me through a workday. Ever since I found it, I use it for all my work. I even used Pomodoro while building this app about Pomodoro, which still makes me laugh.

The problem was that every timer I liked lives on the phone, and for me picking up the phone "just to start a timer" ends in 40 minutes of scrolling. I wanted the whole loop on my wrist so the phone can stay in another room.

I tried the Pomodoro apps that already exist for Garmin, but none of them really clicked with me. So I built my own: work and break blocks with haptic cues, a few presets plus a fully custom one, a daily goal, simple stats and streaks. Nothing fancy, it just stays out of the way.

I recently became interested in solunar theory and how the position of the moon might affect fish activity. After reading more about it, I ended up building a small Garmin watch app based on the idea.

It shows major and minor feeding windows, a daily activity score, moon phase and illumination, sunrise and sunset times, and a forecast for the next seven days.

I know solunar data is only one part of fishing. Weather, tides, water temperature, pressure, location, and experience probably matter much more.

I’m curious how many of you actually check solunar times before going fishing. Do you find them useful, or do you consider them mostly noise?

I wanted to track habits without reaching for my phone, so I built a Garmin app

I've been trying to stick to a few small daily habits this year: drinking more water, reading before bed, and taking my supplements.

Every habit app I tried lived on my phone, and that was exactly the problem. I'd pick up my phone to check off "read", notice a notification, and twenty minutes later I'd still be scrolling while the book remained closed.

So I built a habit tracker that runs entirely on the watch. No account, no sync, no phone. Tap a habit, it turns green, done.

A few details ended up mattering much more than I expected:

• Missing a day resets your streak, but the app also keeps a lifetime completion count. One bad day hurts less when you can still see that you've completed the habit 143 times.
• Changing a habit's schedule doesn't rewrite its history. Switch from every day to Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and your streak continues because each past day is evaluated using the schedule that was active at the time. This took me embarrassingly long to get right.
• Reminders automatically skip themselves when you've already completed the habit that day.
• The monthly calendar starts the week on the same day your watch is configured to use.

Do you currently track habits on your phone, your watch, or not at all?

Quick recap for anyone who missed the first post: ParkPin saves your car’s location with one tap and guides you back using a compass arrow and live distance. In underground garages, where GPS may not work, you can also save the floor and parking spot.

Here is what the update adds, based on your feedback:

Paid parking timer

After parking, you can set how much time you paid for in hours and minutes. The watch shows the remaining time, and the countdown changes from green to amber to red as the deadline gets closer.

Topped up the meter? You can extend the timer in just a few taps.

Background alerts

This was the most requested feature. You get vibration alerts 30 minutes before your time expires, again at 15 minutes, and when the timer reaches zero.

The app does not need to stay open. The reminders continue running in the background.

Glance support

You can check how much paid time is left, or how long the car has been parked, directly from the glance carousel without opening the app.

Smaller improvements

The app now gives clearer feedback while the watch is acquiring GPS, since a cold start can sometimes take a minute. I also cleaned up the menus and fixed layouts across screen sizes, from smaller MIP watches to larger AMOLED models.

Everything runs directly on the watch, with no phone required.

Thanks again for all the feedback on the first post. I am happy to answer questions, and I am still listening if you have more ideas.

This started by accident. I was waiting for something to install, got bored and started clicking around the Stream Deck app. I'm a restless person so my brain went "what if these keys were just a memory game". Flip two keys, find the pair.

Made a quick prototype and ended up playing it way more than I expected between tasks. Might be placebo, but after a while my short-term memory kinda felt sharper.

My girlfriend got into it too and said I should make it a real game instead of a prototype. So I kept going. Now it's a 26 level campaign, a quick mode and 4 themed card packs (veggies, fruit, sea, cosmos). Most of the deck turns into the board, with one column on the side for controls.

Built it for myself really, figured someone here might get a kick out of it too.

This started by accident. I was waiting for something to install, got bored and started clicking around the Stream Deck app. I'm a restless person so my brain went "what if these keys were just a memory game". Flip two keys, find the pair.

Made a quick prototype and ended up playing it way more than I expected between tasks. Might be placebo, but after a while my short-term memory kinda felt sharper.

My girlfriend got into it too and said I should make it a real game instead of a prototype. So I kept going. Now it's a 26 level campaign, a quick mode and 4 themed card packs (veggies, fruit, sea, cosmos). Most of the deck turns into the board, with one column on the side for controls.

Built it for myself really, figured someone here might get a kick out of it too.