The best watch faces for Garmin vívoactive 5
The best watch face for the Garmin vívoactive 5 this week is The Laziest Watchface Ever Created by VAW.BE (Free, score 8.5/10). A fun face that motivates you to be lazy: the bar fills up while you are not moving, with the goal to sit still for at least 2 hours.
Every watch face here supports the vívoactive 5 (all sizes and editions), picked from our weekly ranking of the whole Connect IQ Store. Entries made for the vívoactive 5, or for what it is built for, come first; after that the weekly score decides.
The Laziest Watchface Ever Created
A fun face that motivates you to be lazy: the bar fills up while you are not moving, with the goal to sit still for at least 2 hours. You can also set other goals and choose your stats and colors.
Daily Flower
A new AI-generated flower every day to color your day, with all the stats you need at a glance. Save up to 5 favourite flowers and choose your stats, seconds and AM/PM options.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
⭐️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.
Modello GMT
An homage to Italian utilitarian watches with a GMT layout: calm, intentional design that puts legibility first in all lighting conditions, engineered to feel native on Garmin watches of every screen size.
SUMMIT
A minimalist, terminal-style face in monochrome dot-matrix look with today's running distance, heart rate, recovery time, calories and a sunrise/sunset curve. Basic features are free; PRO, after a 12-hour trial, is a one-time upgrade that unlocks 20 choices per row.
Relief
Turns an AMOLED Garmin into an instrument panel: nine pockets machined into a dark graphite plate, warm off-white type and one accent colour, with six configurable fields drawing on 39 readings from weather to VO2 max.
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