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TL;DR Renn, my current favorite watch face on my Pixel Watch 3, is down from $1.99 to $0.49.
There’s also a 50% discount on four other faces: Pacer, Acontria, Patrol, and Revana. All down to $0.99.
All faces are optimized for Wear OS 5 and 6 watches like the Pixel Watch 3, Galaxy Watch 7 or 8, and OnePlus Watch 3.
If you scroll through all the watch faces I’ve installed on my Pixel Watch 3, you’ll find that 90% of them are made by one developer: Time Flies Watch Faces. I ran into their work more than a year ago when I was looking for the best watch faces for the Pixel and Galaxy Watch, and I haven’t looked back since. Mahogany, Complicationist, Drivora, Torvex; I’ve worn them all, but my latest addiction is Renn. And today, this simple watch face is down 75% from $1.99 to $0.49. Four other excellent faces are also half-price — scroll down to see them all.
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What I love about Renn is that, like all of Time Flies’ faces, it’s built on Google’s Watch Face Format. That means it uses Google’s sanctioned XML template and is fully compatible with Wear OS 5.0 and 6.0 on the latest Pixel, Galaxy, and OnePlus Watches. It is lightweight, doesn’t drain the battery when running, displays all the health sensor and complication data accurately without requiring extra permissions, and behaves exactly like the native faces installed on Google’s and Samsung’s watches. I can see all of its options in the Pixel Watch app on my phone and customize it there instead of on the tiny display of my watch.
Renn is also as simple as an analog face can be, while also packing small, gorgeous design touches here and there. I love the progress circle around the battery gauge and step count. I also appreciate that it has the day and date built-in, so I don’t have to waste a precious complication space to display that. The reason why I keep gravitating back to it, despite having a large choice of faces, is that it looks really at home on my Pixel Watch, even though Google didn’t design it. It melds into the watch’s domed glass and creates an illusion of no bezels. The font is just perfect, too. As a side anecdote, I met a product manager from the Google Pixel team last week, and even he complimented me on my choice of watch face and asked about its name.
Renn has 30 color schemes to choose from (my favorite is number 28, the green-teal and grey one), 10 hand styles, eight second-hand styles, nine pointer colors (the downward triangle at the top), five always-on display options, and eight custom complication slots. I usually like to fill all complications, but in the case of Renn, I decided to stick to the four main ones and leave the outer ring clean. If you want to see more data points, though, you can add the other four. There’s also an option to hide or show the index and/or numbers, for a cleaner look.
Besides Renn, there are currently four other excellent watch faces on discount from Time Flies. These are all down 50% from $1.99 to $0.99, and they’re definitely worth checking out.
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