Try it here: https://czmanix.github.io/pebble-color-optimizer/

If you are developing for Pebble, you can use this app to create more lifelike image of what you wanted in the first place.

Upload your image in 200×228 (larger will crop) with photo or UI elements to test.

This will create an image for the export, that will look the closest to your input on the real watch. Maybe ugly on a normal monitor, but nice on the watch. You can tune brightness and contrast to get most colors from your input.

It supports Atkinson dithering suited for photos, or 50:50 multicolor dithering, which is better for UI elements.

You can use your own sun/room/backlight palettes by replacing the PNGs with your own.

Everything is here: https://github.com/czmanix/pebble-color-optimizer

This is a follow up to this browser extension: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/1unfeel/pebble_real_colors_view_watchfaces_and_apps_in/

This is Pip. He lives on my Pebble Time and mostly just does his own thing.

He started as an evening project that got a little out of hand. He blinks, looks up when you raise your wrist, gets sleepy at night, blushes now and then, and every so often he'll yawn or chase a butterfly across the screen. Catch him at midnight and he throws a tiny confetti party.

The whole face is just two eyes, but somehow that's enough to make me smile every time I check the time. Figured he might make a few of you smile too.

He's up on Rebble if you'd like him on your wrist: https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/6a4a430b9e200900098b8f5c

(still fiddling with him — let me know what you think!)

Got my watch on 6/9/26 and charged it fully again yesterday, 7/4/26 clocking in at about 24 days. That was only down to 4% though so I probably could have gone a bit longer coming close to the predicted 26 days. Battery monitoring page predicts, with the current update, 71 day battery life based on the latest firmware 4.19.2 I received while charging yesterday. Posting this as a bookmark to see if I even come close to that time frame of 71 days. If it does, it will be the undisputed smartwatch battery champion of my watches.

Watch: Pebble Time 2 Silver Gray

Firmware: 4.19.2

Watchface: VITA

Health Tracking: On (10 min heart rate and sleep tracking)

Notifications: On (Limited Apps)

Touchscreen: Off

Motion Backlight: Off

Weather: On

Phone: Pixel 10 Pro XL

OS: Android 17

Last time I've got several feedback on design and usage, so I worked on a new big update.

Colorful
Now you can set a different color for each block. You can still pick one for all then override for each. Text color will still automatically adapt from the color.

New Blocks
A lot of new blocks (some just extended the old one) for you to use for Banner, Small and Large: humidity, battery, calendar, date, HR, distance, max/min, weather.
This will give you more flexibility to make it the way you want it.

New Font
Switched to a new monospace font Lekton (slightly edited) to keep proportions right on large blocks.

Presets
Some preset ideas that you can quickly select then modify to your use.

Fixed
Fixes for font scaling, color automation and icon design. I still had to use different icons for small block, the large one scaling was terrible.

https://apps.repebble.com/6a3d4248cd52370009862b05

Thought I’d share my latest attempt at a watch face. This is actually my 2nd go - the previous one was a bit of a disaster and I learnt a lot from messing up over and over.

This also has a settings page in the phone app to edit all the colours.

Got another weirder one coming…

If these were made would you buy?

Rainbow one is full colour MJF nylon, as is the blue one. Blue is not a perfect match for the silver blue watch but it’s close

Transparent one is resin. Hot pink, orange and black are SLS nylon

All (except the resin one) will be available soon to buy on Thangs. I couldn’t resist sharing them now though

Any ideas/requests for other full colour patterns/styles?

Received mid-May on the tail end of the first batch (I think). I haven’t been “babying” this for the past month and a half, but I also haven’t been treating it poorly. I work in healthcare, and nothing that should be putting any major stress on the screen. I was getting off of my overnight shift in the ER tonight, winding down for bed and realized as I was setting my alarms the clear crack. Super visible and very palpable if you run your finger across the screen. I feel kinda stupid for believing this would hold up like my prior pebbles… Now I’m just left with a broken pebble. Not sure how this will hold up in moist environments now so I fear I may be switching back to an apple watch unfortunately.

I know it’s a small startup but I really don’t think it’s asking too much to have a watch that holds up more than a month and a half without the screen breaking. Over a year of anticipation for a month and a half of pure bliss, followed shortly by massive disappointment.

Anyone else’s PT2 screens not holding up?

While choosing my next watchface I don't know, how those fancy colors in the App Store will look on the passive display of my Pebble Time 2. So I took photos outside inside and in the dark with backlight on of all the available colors, created custom palettes and vibecoded a browser extension for simulating these conditions in the App Store.

Everything is at https://github.com/czmanix/pebble-color-extension/ This is the readme.md with instructions:

Pebble Screenshot Color Corrector

A browser extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge that adjusts the colors of Pebble smartwatch screenshots on the Repebble App Store to match their real-world appearance.

Pebble smartwatches use a color e-paper display that looks different depending on the ambient lighting. Developers usually upload screenshots using the "ideal" pure RGB color palette, which can look overly saturated on a computer monitor. This extension maps those ideal colors to real-world palettes derived from actual macro photos of the watch.

Features

• Multiple Lighting Modes – Switch between Original, Sunlight, Room (Indoor), and Night (Backlight) color profiles.
• Seamless Integration – Automatically processes and recolors screenshots directly on apps.repebble.com.
• Instant Reload – Changing the mode in the extension popup automatically reloads the current tab to apply the new color palette.

How to Install

Since this extension is not published on the Chrome Web Store, you can easily load it as an "unpacked" extension:

1. Download the code: Clone this repository or download it as a .zip file and extract it to a folder on your computer.
2. Open Extensions page: In Google Chrome, go to chrome://extensions/ (or edge://extensions/ in Microsoft Edge).
3. Enable Developer Mode: Turn on the "Developer mode" toggle switch, usually located in the top right corner.
4. Load the extension: Click the "Load unpacked" button in the top left corner.
5. Select the folder: Choose the folder you extracted in step 1 (the folder that contains the manifest.json file).

How to Use

1. Visit the Repebble App Store.
2. Click on the extensions icon (the puzzle piece) in your browser toolbar and pin the Pebble Color Corrector.
3. Click the extension icon to open the popup.
4. Select your preferred lighting condition from the dropdown menu.
5. The page will reload automatically, and all app and watchface screenshots (not animated) will be displayed using realistic colors.

How It Works (Technical Details)

The extension utilizes a background Service Worker to fetch the screenshot image data, successfully bypassing the strict CORS policies on the Rebble servers. The content.js script then draws the image on a hidden HTML <canvas>, compares every pixel against a predefined color mapping table (generated from real photos), applies the corresponding real-world color, and replaces the image source directly in the DOM.

How It Was Created

A simple app for Pebble displays all available colors.
Photos of this app on my Pebble Time 2 were taken by me. Then in Photoshop by sampling average area of a displayed color I've created real world palettes by hand. The rest was vibecoded with Gemini.

Licence: Do what you want with this, have fun, and please give me a credit :)

I just noticed that the charger sometimes makes some sparks when connecting or disconnecting it from the watch, and sometimes while charging it also makes a weird electrical buzzing noise, which you can hear in the video if you raise the volume enough.

I doubt this is intended behaviour, so I wonder if it's a design or manufacturing issue.

Either way I ruled out the issue being my chargers or cables, since I tried various combinations including high quality PD setups and normal low power charging and they all present the same behaviour.

I'm so happy to be back in the game. The bigger screen is a game changer.

Eric mentioned that the index01 functions will be available for the pebble.

I'm missing a ai assistant on the watch, that understand the German language.

hi, i need a new charger for my pebble steel but the ones on ebay & aliexpress + shipping cost significantly more than these generic temu ones, that seem to be aimed towards cheap chinese smartwatches and let you choose the distance between the pins to fit ur specific watch. has anyone tried using one of these with their pebble watch and has it worked fine? my biggest worry is the magnetic orientation, i’m not sure if these would stick onto pebble watches properly

after like 10 or 11 years with a time steel, it died, so i got the new time 2, but pushing that aside it works very good rn, i can play pebblemon, and use a lot of more apps, even be able to use a calculator more easily on the watch

A friend 3D printed it (the file was downloaded via a link on this sub). I haven't filed it or anything, just testing it out really.

How are we finding real-life durability? I've seen a few broken and chipped screens and I am a bit worried for regular daily usage. I think I prefer the idea of a bezel cover rather than a full case though.