Questions and answers
Everything about Echelon watch faces for Garmin and Wear OS: who makes them, what they cost, how to install them, and what they do with your data.
About Echelon
Who makes Echelon watch faces?
Echelon is an independent maker of watch faces for Garmin and Wear OS watches, run by Zoltán Tüskés in Sandnes, Norway. On Google Play the faces are published under the developer name SHD Service.
Where can I buy Echelon watch faces?
Garmin faces are in the Garmin Connect IQ Store and Wear OS faces on Google Play. Every face with its store link is listed on echelon.im/garmin/ and echelon.im/wearos/.
How much does an Echelon watch face cost?
Garmin faces cost US$1.99 to 4.99 each in the Connect IQ Store and Wear OS faces €1.99 each on Google Play, plus tax where it applies.
Can I get Echelon watch faces for free?
Yes: write a review for any of our PRO watch faces in the Garmin Connect IQ Store, then register your review at echelon.im/watchfaces/comment-register and you get a bundle of 10 watch faces with full install instructions.
How do refunds work?
Purchases and refunds are handled by the store: Garmin for the Connect IQ Store and Google for Google Play, under their own refund rules.
Garmin watch faces
Which Garmin watches are supported?
Garmin watches with Connect IQ, such as Fenix, Epix, Forerunner, Venu, Vivoactive, Instinct, MARQ and Approach models. Each face page lists every supported watch.
How do I install an Echelon watch face on my Garmin?
Open the face's Connect IQ Store page from echelon.im, tap Install and choose your watch. You can also search for the face's name in the Connect IQ app on your phone. The watch gets the face at its next sync.
Do the Garmin faces need a phone connection?
Faces with live data or a daily image (Earth Extremes, Live Sun, Daily Motivation, Daily Challenge and On This Day) load new content through the Garmin Connect app on your phone. Step goal and fitness faces draw everything from the data on your watch.
How do I change the data fields and colors?
In the Connect IQ app on your phone, open the face under your installed watch faces and tap Settings. On touchscreen watches, touch and hold the face to open a screen with 10 data fields.
What is the FITT Score?
The FITT Score is Echelon's daily fitness score from 0 to 100, shown on our Garmin watch faces. It combines steps (30%), intensity minutes (30%), stress (20%) and recovery (20%, from Body Battery and recovery time), using your own goals from Garmin Connect. More: wfb.app/fitt-score
Wear OS watch faces
Which Wear OS watches are supported?
Round watches with Wear OS 5 or newer, for example the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and newer and the Google Pixel Watch.
How do I install an Echelon face on Wear OS?
Open the face on Google Play, choose your watch and install it. Then touch and hold the watch face on your watch and pick the new face.
Do the Wear OS faces need the internet?
No. All images and texts are built into the watch face. It has no internet access and no account.
Privacy and battery
Do Echelon watch faces collect my data?
Wear OS faces collect no data at all. Garmin faces show your watch data only on the watch; faces with live data or a daily image download their content from echelon.im without any account or personal details. No Echelon face sends your location.
Do the watch faces drain the battery?
They are built to be battery-friendly: the always-on mode shows a dimmed, reduced version of the face. Daily image faces download one new image a day, and Earth Extremes refreshes its data every 30 minutes.
How can I contact Echelon?
Send a message on Instagram (@garminerwf) or write to awooche@gmail.com.