The best watch faces for Garmin Instinct 3
The best watch face for the Garmin Instinct 3 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 Instinct 3 (all sizes and editions), picked from our weekly ranking of the whole Connect IQ Store. Entries made for the Instinct 3, 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.
Garmin All Stars
The Instinct 3 AMOLED Console watch face transforms your watch into a retro-futuristic portable console, featuring layered control panels and digital displays. If green isn t your style, the Console offers a variety of other futuristic color 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.
Quatro
A richly configurable face with a radial 8-field layout around a large, bold two-line clock. 89 data points, day and night color themes that switch at sunrise and sunset, and weather from 4 providers.
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.
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.
Magmatic Ember EX
An upgrade from our popular watch face Magmatic Ember, Magmatic Ember EX shifts the spectrum with new vibrant colors and expanded customization options. The layered structures seem to extend inward from the bezel, folding over the glowing digits at the center.
Horizon
There is a wide range of data that can be spread across the various data fields, bars and graphs, some with a percentage bar for goals made. The Hero image was sponsored by cino_photo. More information, instructions, etc.
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.
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.
Instinct Pro
An Instinct-style data face with a clean layout and extensive, well-organised options for both look and data. All functions work without payment; premium options marked with a star show a padlock until you add an unlock key.
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.
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.
⭐️WEATHER FACE by ERSHOVLAD
A clean, functional weather-focused face that shows the data you need at a glance while saving battery. 3-day fully functional trial, then a one-time license or a subscription to all of the developer's faces.
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