The best watch faces for Garmin Forerunner 165
The best watch face for the Garmin Forerunner 165 this week is Stride I by VAW.BE ($3.49, score 8.4/10). A face that motivates you to move every hour, not just once a day: see at a glance how many hours you have been active and set your own hourly step goals.
Every watch face here supports the Forerunner 165 (all sizes and editions), picked from our weekly ranking of the whole Connect IQ Store. Entries made for the Forerunner 165, or for what it is built for, come first; after that the weekly score decides.
Stride I
A face that motivates you to move every hour, not just once a day: see at a glance how many hours you have been active and set your own hourly step goals. Colors and stats are customizable.
Stride II
A face that helps you move regularly throughout the day: see how many hours you have been active and set your own hourly step goals. Colors and stats are customizable.
Spectrum
A stats face with limitless colour gradients: change the colours, choose from a wide range of stats, add or remove the AM/PM marker and seconds hand, and use the AOD modes on OLED screens. Gradients need a watch with a GPU.
Firmament
The night sky on your wrist: planets in real time, meteor showers, an aurora early warning, sun and moon, the brightest stars and ISS transits, plus weather, tides and over 100 data options.
Zenith
A small real-time planetarium: the planets, sun and moon rise across the face as they do in the sky. It adds a weather forecast, tide forecast, over 90 data options per view and touch functions. Mostly free; a few functions need a key after a 5-day trial.
Pokémon Sleep: Snorlax & Friends
Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu and Snorlax from Pokémon Sleep: by day they change poses with your Body Battery, at night their sleep style depends on your last Sleep Score. Free official face.
Pokémon Sleep: I Choose You
A customizable Pokémon Sleep face with 48 Pokémon to choose from: they change poses with your Body Battery by day, and at night their sleep style depends on your last Sleep Score.
AstroMaster / Astro Master
A stylish analog face with 3D lighting and hands that cast shadows, plus sun and moon information for deep-sky observers and night photographers who plan around astronomical darkness and moonless nights.
Rondo
A refined digital face with 8 customizable data fields, 4 time and 2 data typefaces, three time sizes and 31 colour themes including light backgrounds, plus full colour control. Paid, with a free demo version to try first.
Octo
A decorative digital face with Flower, Star or Shield backgrounds, 3 fonts, 15 themes or full colour control by picker or HEX code, and 4 fields from 35 options with long-press shortcuts. Paid, with a free demo.
Garmin All Stars
Garmin's premium remaster of the Forerunner 965 face: a fast italic clock with vibrant colour and glanceable performance data, now with four layouts and complete control over every element of the design.
Minimal Lines
Massive digital time with separately colored hours and minutes and the date between them. Four data slots take dozens of metrics, and on touch watches a long press opens a stats panel with eight more fields. Many color combinations to choose from.
SteelMaster / Steel Master
A stylish analog face with 3D lighting and hands that cast shadows on each other, built on a fast, energy-efficient engine with a visual settings editor. Long-press a complication on touch watches to open the related widget.
Quipu
A data-dense instrument panel inspired by the Inca quipu, the knotted cords that stored data: a big, crisp clock with a calendar strip, two goal arcs and seven stat positions you choose yourself.
RASTER PRO
A Swiss grid watch face with large hours and minutes in a Helvetica-inspired type and everything else in fixed positions. The Pro version adds a configurable big data slot, three slots below, progress rings, more colors and layout options.
Vega
A simple face whose hour and minute digits double as progress bars you can fill with any value. Switch to more complex views by wrist turn or touch; supports weather, tides, wheelchair mode and touch complications.
MoonMaster / Moon Master
An analog watch face inspired by the watches Apollo astronauts wore on the moon, with 3D lighting and hands that cast shadows. Touch and hold a complication to open its widget; a visual editor makes choosing the content easy.
Garmin All Stars
Garmin's own Deep Currents face from the quatix 8, now for many watches: engraved wave patterns, a midnight-blue gradient and a classic marine layout, with two digital and one analog layout, all customizable.
Garmin All Stars
You can pick or switch between the Forerunner 570's and Forerunner 970's watch faces. The digits can be stylized either way, with 6 fonts to choose from. Not only that, but you can replace the digital clock with analog watch hands, and track more data during your runs.
Minimal Lines 2
Bold, massive stacked time digits with a vertical rule and a compact column for the date and four data rows. Choose from many accent and two-tone themes and from a long list of data such as Body Battery, stress, weather, VO2 max or weekly distances.
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