FossIsTheWay: free apps for the UNA Watch

Which kind of app?

The UNA Watch runs four kinds of app, and two that look alike on the glass can be quite different things.

Watch faces

What the watch shows when you are not doing anything else. You choose one under Settings, Watch Face, and it is there every time you look. A face takes no button presses; it is set up from the phone.

Utilities

Apps you open from the watch's launcher when you want them. They have pages and use the buttons, and can keep working after you leave, as an alarm waiting to ring or a GPS track recording.

Glances

A strip in the watch's glances, for a look rather than a visit: nothing to open and nothing to press.

Activities

Workouts: they record as you go and can be exported, to Strava among others. FossIsTheWay makes none yet.

Some apps come both ways, each page naming its pair: WorldClock is the utility, its cities stepped through with the buttons; Zone Clock is the same display as your watch face, set from the phone. Have whichever suits you, or both.

Utilities

Apps you open from the watch's launcher.

BreatheA breathing pacer that taps your wrist to breathe in, hold and breathe out, so you can do a whole session with your eyes closed. Four patterns ready to go, or write your own.

Also a glance: Breathe Glance+ glance

LodestoneA compass for your wrist: a steady heading that allows for how you hold your arm, true or magnetic north, and a course to follow if you set one.

Also a glance: Direction+ glance

GPSYour position on a globe, what the watch's GPS is telling you, and a track recorder that saves where you go as a GPX file.

WorldClockYour time and one other city's at a glance, with the hours between them and the day when it differs. Step through your own list of cities, in a modern or a retro style.

Also a watch face: Zone Clock+ watch face

EbbA tide watch: the next high and low water, the tide drawn either side of now, sunrise, sunset and the moon. Enter one high water and it works out the rest.

Also a watch face: Tide Clock+ watch face

StargazerWhen tonight is good for stargazing: true darkness, moonrise and moonset, and the dark, moonless window, worked out for where you are.

Also a watch face: Astro Clock+ watch face

ClockStudioThree of my apps in one: Ebb's tides, Stargazer's night sky and WorldClock's time zones, on one launcher entry, with DOWN to move between the faces.

Ebb, Stargazer and WorldClock in one3 apps in one

OverheadWhen the ISS and other satellites pass over you: the next pass drawn across a dome of sky with a countdown, for up to ten objects you choose.

AhoyAn anchor alarm and a nap timer for a small boat. Drop the anchor and it buzzes if you drag out of your circle or lose GPS; start a nap and it buzzes when it is up.

Alarm ItAn alarm clock you set from the phone, one line per alarm. It rings with the app closed and the screen dark, builds to a full alert as gently or as suddenly as you choose, and a restart or a computer cable never quietly swallows an alarm.

SensorViewFor the curious and for developers: what each of the watch's 38 sensors really does, whether it is there, what it reports, how often, and how far it swings.

Watch faces

Chosen under Settings, Watch Face, and set up from the phone. They need firmware 1.5.0.

DialDeckFive of UNA's own watch faces in one, switched from the phone app in a moment, each with a light version for daylight.

Zone ClockWorldClock as a watch face: your time large, another city's below it with the hours between, and steps, activity and battery round the edge. Modern or retro.

WorldClock as a watch faceWorldClock as a face

Tide ClockEbb as a watch face: the next high and low water and the tide's curve around the time, with sunrise, sunset and the moon. Enter one high water and it does the rest.

Ebb as a watch faceEbb as a face

Astro ClockTonight's stargazing window as a watch face: when true darkness begins and ends, when the moon is up, and the dark, moonless stretch in between.

Stargazer as a watch faceStargazer as a face

Glances

In your glances, with nothing to open.

DirectionA compass in your glances: your heading in big digits over a sliding tape, with north in red. True or magnetic north, and no app to open.

Lodestone in your glancesLodestone as a glance

Breathe GlanceA breathing pacer in your glances: a bar that grows and shrinks with each breath, and a tap on your wrist at every change. Nothing to press.

Breathe in your glancesBreathe as a glance

For developers

Tools for anyone building apps for the UNA Watch.

DevTestAppFor developers: an app that holds as much memory as you tell it to, so you can test whether an app that size will start beside a given watch face.

Also a watch face: DevTestClock+ watch face

DevTestClockFor developers: a watch face that holds as much memory as you tell it to, so you can see how your app behaves when the face leaves it less room.

DevTestApp as a watch faceDevTestApp as a face

SensorViewFor the curious and for developers: what each of the watch's 38 sensors really does, whether it is there, what it reports, how often, and how far it swings.

What the apps share

Invert and light

The faces can be turned over for daylight: dark markings on a light ground, laid out exactly as at night. In the utilities the screen can light when you raise your wrist: never, at night, or always.

The info page

Hold UP for four seconds in most of the utilities for a page of what the app is working from: its version, the battery, counts and timings. Useful when something looks wrong.

Settings, live

Every setting is in the phone app's Configure form. Change one there and the app on the watch picks it up while it runs, without restarting anything.

The Config Curator

A free web page that walks through every app's settings in plain words and shows exactly what to enter.
Pick the app, change only what you want: everything else already has a sensible default.
Already set up? Start from the app's own settings file and change it from there.
Entirely optional: every app works as it comes, and the curator is there to make things easier.

Open the Config Curator

Buttons, in most utilities

UP	hold	half a second: invert the face
UP	hold	two seconds: the screen light, off, night or always
UP	hold	four seconds: the info page
DOWN	tap	the next page or screen
BACK		leave

A few apps use UP their own way, and watch faces and glances have no buttons: each app's description says how it works.

The family sheet (PDF)