Android Wear 5.0 is finally out on all devices, and that means developers are playing a little catch-up. Not only are there new system features to take advantage of, we finally have full support for custom watch faces. Many of the previously released ones have been updated for Android 5.0, but we're focusing here mostly on newly added apps and watch faces.

A lot of the new Android Wear watch faces are cool, and a surprising number of them are free. The settings also tie into the Android Wear app, so make sure to head there as you try all the stuff on this list. Speaking of, the bulk of this post will be watch faces — there were a ton ready to go when Google announced Lollipop for Wear, and the number has only grown since then.

Wear Apps

Coffee - SMS on Android Wear

Android Wear is built mostly around voice interaction for messaging, but Coffee is an SMS app that lets you shoot off messages without talking to your wrist, which isn't always possible. It comes with some built-in messages, but you can add your own custom ones too.

Note, this is SMS, not Hangouts. There is still no way to send a new Hangouts message from Android Wear. You can only reply and canned responses are limited. At least with Coffee, you can say what you want without using your voice.

Coffee is a polished SMS app for Android wear that lets you both send SMS and reply to SMS without talking to your Android Wear watch in awkward situations.

Coffee plays nicely with the SMS app on your phone and only replaces the Android Wear experience.

★ Navigate 100’s of messages with a few swipes in our unique UI

★ Fast and easy -- just flick your wrist to launch Coffee and send an SMS.

★ Customize your own messages that can be sent with two taps

★ Customize vibrations patterns for your favorite contacts so you instantly know who’s trying to reach you

★ Lots of settings

Coffee is the first messenger app built ground up for Android Wear.

Wizz - Vibrations messenger

The unfortunately named Wizz is basically a take on Apple's Taptic feedback messaging then. It's like a virtual tap on the shoulder with different patterns for different people and statements. It's free if you wanna give it a shot.

Share your feelings through the vibrations.

Want to say hello ? Hello Wizz .

Want to go for a beer ? Beer Wizz .

No particular reason ? Just wizz .

So many possibilities...

Make your friends phones vibrate with a simple touch on your screen.

One word, one wizz, one emotion.

Apps With Wear Support

Netflix

Netflix on your wrist? That doesn't sound very useful. Well, it's not what you think. You will see recommendations from Netflix on your watch. Okay, cool. Now could someone please fix the media controls on Lollipop? Thanks.

Netflix is the world’s leading subscription service for watching TV episodes and movies on your phone. This Netflix mobile application delivers the best experience anywhere, anytime.

Get the free app as a part of your Netflix membership and you can instantly watch thousands of TV episodes & movies on your phone.

If you are not a Netflix member sign up for Netflix and start enjoying immediately on your phone with our one-month free trial.

Netflix Developer: Netflix, Inc.
Price: Free
4.2
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Drop Beta (Invite only)

Drop allows you to place files, notes, reminders, and whatnot in physical locations using a sort of augmented reality overlay. When someone is near a valid drop, they can interact with the data in it. The Android Wear angle is that you'll see notifications of nearby drops on your wrist. If it's a message, you can respond from the watch.

Drop is a new location-based social network, allowing you to discover, explore and interact with the world around you in a new way. You can leave messages, experiences, stories and impressions for your friends or the whole world at a specific location. Drop connects you to other people based on local places and lets you experience locations from different perspectives and times. Request your invitation today to be one of the first to join our community and experience the world around you in a new way.

• Socialize with people nearby: See what is happening around you and share your own thoughts with people nearby in two clicks.

• Perfect travel companion: Discover useful tips left by other travelers to find exciting new places and leave your footsteps by sharing memories at special places you have visited.

• Personal timeline: Populate and revisit your personal timeline containing stories and impressions you experienced at your favorite places all over the world.

• Location bookmarking: Mark your favorite spots, attach notes and share them with friends.

• Location-based reminders: Leave location-based reminders for your friends or yourself. Drop will notify you when you are nearby.

• Virtual geocaching: Leave messages at secret locations to be discovered by other people.

• And more: treasure hunts, location-based notes, file sharing, guestbooks

... the possibilities are limitless. Let your imagination run wild.

• Share messages, pictures or files at your current location for everyone, your friends or only yourself.

• Bookmark, comment or share nearby drops.

• Integration of location-tagged content from Instagram, Twitter and Wikipedia.

• Clean and beautiful user interface inspired by Material Design (Lollipop-ready)

• Android Wear integration: See nearby drops on your Wear device and respond directly from your wrist.

• And much more...

Vonage Mobile® Call Video Text

Vondage is one of the many VoIP options out there, but maybe you'll use it more now that there's Android Wear support. You'll see incoming calls and messages on the watch, with the option to respond by voice.

Text one, text all.

Download Vonage Mobile® v2.8 and start a FREE group message with as many as 50 other users.

Use Vonage Mobile from up to five of your devices and get free texting and group messaging, free calls and free video chat on Android phones and tablets, along with iPhones, iPads and iPods. Choose your device, and get free text and group messaging, free calls, and free video chat with other Vonage Mobile users worldwide. The app works over Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G networks.* You can also make low-cost international calls to all mobile numbers and landlines.

International Calls and Roaming

Vonage Mobile, gives you ultra low-cost international calling rates from the U.S. to landlines and mobile phones in more than 200 countries that are 90% cheaper on average than major U.S. mobile carriers***. Add calling credits at any time directly from your Google Play account.

Now you can get inbound calls to your existing cell phone number for free with ReachMe Roaming™**. To activate the feature simply launch the app, go to the ‘more’ and select ‘ReachMe Roaming’. The feature eliminates roaming charges when traveling abroad making it easy and affordable to stay in touch with friends and family. Combined with Vonage Mobile’s free calling to all U.S. phone numbers, U.S. users can have free 2-way communication over Wi-Fi with others back home whenever they travel.

Free Video Calling and Video Messaging

Choose your device, and get great video call quality for face-to-face time with friends and loved ones with free video calling to other Vonage Mobile users worldwide – Android and iPhone users alike.

It’s also easy to leave a Video Message. Record a video in app to leave as a message or select a pre-recorded video from your phone.

With Vonage Mobile, you can use the device of your choice to make international calls to phone numbers worldwide at ultra-low calling rates that are 90% cheaper on average than major U.S. mobile carriers.***

Remember to use Vonage Mobile over Wi-Fi when traveling internationally to stay in touch for less. And, if you need to add calling credit at any time, it’s easy. Just buy in the app, directly from your iTunes account.

Free HD Voice Calling

All voice calls between Vonage Mobile users are HD-quality, making it sound like the person on the other side is in the room with you. Once you hear HD-voice you will never want to make a regular voice call again.

Send and receive free text messages, pictures, video clips, audio clips and more with other Vonage Mobile users.

Never pay for international messaging again.

Todoist: To-Do List, Task List

Android Police coverage: Todoist Update Adds Android Wear Support With Voice Commands, Better Rich Notifications, And Task List Management

You are probably familiar with Todoist as a to-do manager for phones and tablets, but now it has Android Wear support. You can add new notes, view existing ones, and share from the watch.

The perfect to-do list app is there wherever you need it: on your phone, tablet, desktop, browser, Gmail, and more.

Join over 2 million people who are doing amazing things with Todoist – the world’s leading to-do list and personal task manager. Praised by TechCrunch, New York Times, Lifehacker, The Wall Street Journal, Android Authority, Phandroid, Android Police, and many others, Todoist works wonderfully across all your devices and platforms (mobile, desktop, web browser and e-mail) so you can boost your productivity and achieve more each day.

The FREE app lets you:

• Automatically sync your tasks on all your devices

• Never lose track of your to-do list: your data is automatically synced to the cloud

• Get organized by using due dates, recurring dates, sub-tasks, task priorities, sub-projects and colored projects

• Manage your tasks even while being offline

• Plan your days ahead with visual scheduling

• Share projects, assign tasks, and collaborate with anyone

• Get instant notifications for updates and new comments

• Integrate with Dropbox and Google Drive for adding documents to your tasks

• Preview media links and file attachments through inline thumbnails and file icons

• See images, watch videos and play audio directly within the app

• Leverage amazing widgets, actionable notifications, Google Now and DashClock integration, and advanced settings

• Add tasks from any app by sharing with the Todoist app

With a PREMIUM account you get all of the above, plus:

▸ Set up and receive push notifications, email or SMS reminders based on your physical location or the time and date

▸ Get even more organized using task notes, colored labels, and powerful filters

▸ Add files, sound recordings and photos to your tasks

▸ Add tasks by email and access tasks on your calendar

▸ Track and improve your productivity with Todoist Karma

▸ And much, much more.

Watch Faces

ustwo Smart Watch Faces

You may know ustwo as the developer of Monument Valley. They were also ready to go with an official Android Wear 5.0 watch face pack to coincide with the announcement. It's free and a few of them are neat.

Our smart watch faces integrate calendar and weather information so you can see at a glance when your next appointment is, how busy/free you are today, or just what the weather will be later.

An abstract calendar face showing a constant 12 hour overview of your day. Large blobs indicate when you're busy. Fun fact: Albumen is the white of an egg.

If you have a busy calendar and check the time just to work out when you're busy next then this watch face is for you.

Doesn't get more glanceable than this. See what the weather is now. See what the weather will be next.

Rainy? Sunny? Foggy? Don't worry. We got you. This face gives you a constant 12 hour weather forecast.

ustwo Smart Watch Faces Developer: ustwo Studios
Price: Free
4.2
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PAC-MAN Watch Face

If you have a dollar to blow, why not have PAC-Man eating ghosts on your wrist? Perhaps this will help take care of Artem's haunted wrists. It makes more sense on a square watch than a round one, if you want to be canonical, but it works on both.

Bring retro cool & hi-tech to your wrist with the iconic new PAC-MAN Watch Face. Bend time as PAC-MAN races around the dial, devouring power-pellets, ghosts and fruit. Clock watching was never this much fun.

Download the new Android Wear now, the fashionable way to crunch time.

It’s time to download the PAC-MAN Watch Face now.

Rebecca Minkoff Watch Face

If you need a big, shiny gold watch face, here you go. Apparently this is "utterly chic and of the moment." Whatever. Fashion, psh.

The modern, minimalist design of Rebecca Minkoff’s Android Wear watch face is utterly chic and of the moment. The metallic gold screen features the brand's signature pyramid studding and logo.

The Hundreds Watch Face

This is a digital watch face that takes advantage of the accelerometer to animate the patterns so they look like they're floating around the clock. There are a ton of different patterns that shuffle each time you wake up the watch. It's a neat one, and free.

Bring The Hundreds' lifestyle to your new Android wearable, customizable with dozens of graphic themes from the brand portfolio.

The Hundreds is a global apparel and media brand, recognized for its prolific design and unique graphic patterns. Now your new Android wearable can reflect The Hundreds lifestyle, customizable with dozens of graphic themes from the brand portfolio. The time is told in Bobby Hundreds' handwriting while dynamic effects bring the watch face to life as you tilt your wrist.

The Hundreds is Huge.

If you don't see the watch face appearing on your watch, hang tight. The watch face requires the latest version of Android Wear, which should be automatically updated on your watch over the next week.

Un Petit Monde Watch Face

The Un Petit Monde Watch Face is an animated watch face with miniatures in real world environments. It's fun, but the font is a little too messy for my tastes.

The Un Petit Monde (A Small World) watch face transforms Moses’ unique visual style into a series of daily timelapses. Combining miniature toy figures with real-world environments, Moses creates striking scenarios that tell open-ended tales. Layered with travel-inspired interfaces sketched by MediaMonks, each of Moses’ shots are composed and captured specifically for Android Wear.

Raw Vegan Blonde Watch Face

Do you want, like, vegetables and stuff on your wrist? Well, here you go.

Stylize your watch face with Amber Locke’s carefully crafted ‘veg art’ themed designs – inspired by the beauty of natural foods. With an elegant pattern for every day of the week and a fruitful feature that switches the face into an ambient state, this watch face is ripe and ready for your Android Wear.

Despicable Watch Face

This is another paid watch face that launched with the 5.0 update, but this one has Minions from the Despicable Me films. Different ones show up throughout the day, doing different Minion things. Is it worth a buck? Maybe.

NOTE: Please make sure your watch is running Android Wear 5.0. The update is rolling out now but may take a few days. Thank you for your patience.

From Illumination and Universal Pictures, the team that brought you the DESPICABLE ME franchise and the upcoming film MINIONS, comes a Despicable new way to wear a watch. Now, you can experience the subversive Minions on your wrist and get an exclusive glimpse into their world:

• Check the time & find out your Minion's mood. Some are confused, others happy but they're always mischievous

• Brand new style & unique Minion animations from the acclaimed Illumination team

HOW DOES IT WORK?

You’ll see different Minions throughout the day as you check the time, some angry, some sad, some happy but all mischievous. Every once in a while, you’ll actually catch the Minions moving around causing trouble on your watch.

Xogram Watch Face

The Xogram Watch Face is basically kaleidoscope flowers with a clock. It actually looks quite nice, though, and adapts to round or square devices. There are 24 different images to choose from and the animations are smooth. Pretty cool for free.

This watch face brings Hugh Turvey's unique X-ray imagery to your Wear watch in the form of beautiful, abstract kaleidoscopes.

Hugh Turvey creates X-ray art, or Xograms, of the unusual and every day. His work touches on science, graphic design and art while always delivering a striking aesthetic.

The Xogram Watch Face displays a unique visual for every moment of the day, based on 24 of Hugh Turvey's X-ray images. Looking at these sources through a kaleidoscopic lens gives new variations and movement to the pieces that spring to life whenever you activate the screen.

Choose between analog and digital displays, 12 or 24 hour, pick your favorite image or cycle them all throughout the day.

If you don't see the watch face appearing on your watch, hang tight. The watch face requires the latest version of Android Wear, which should be automatically updated on your watch over the next week.

Xogram Watch Face Developer: XOGRAM
Price: Free
4.3
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Nails By Mei Watch Face

I honestly have no idea what I'm looking at. Just read the description.

Animated creations adapted from hand-drawn illustrations created by Japanese celebrity nail artist Mei Kawajiri (also known as "CiaoManhattan2012"). A series of 12 unique vignettes adds unexpected, playful style to your ordinary Android Wear watch.

BE@RBRICK WATCH FACE

This is a different take on the watch face. The colored bars indicate the position of the hands, but there's a digital face in the center too. The entire shape moves around in response to the accelerometer, and you can check the date by shaking your wrist. That causes BE@RBRICK to pop up with the date. It's weird.

This watch face lights up with the familiar "at sign", making for a playful and bright design.

BE@RBRICK has collaborated with various artists, brands, companies, characters, etc...

and has gained many fans in the "Art Toy" world.

・3D/ Parallax effect

・Select time display from 12 hours/ 24 hours

・BE@RBRICK pops up to tell you the date with the shake-you-wrist date notification gimmick

If you don't see the watch face appearing on your watch, hang tight. The watch face requires the latest version of Android Wear, which should be automatically updated on your watch over the next week.

ustwo Watch Faces

This is ustwo's second pack of watch faces, which are also free. I actually like these ones a lot more than the "smart" faces. They have some killer design like the Invert face or Rift. Parallel is neat too, but kind of hard to read. Still, great stuff.

Download a huge collection of beautiful watch faces for free. While some faces might look familiar, others make you feel differently about time. Some even let you personalize to your style. There's sure to be something for everyone in this stunning watch face collection for Android Wear.

A simple, understated design inspired by vintage aircraft instruments.

Time is bound by a grid of horizontal blinds. So minimal.

Who doesn’t like dominos? Now you get to watch them topple over. Forever.

2 customizable colors locked in a never-ending battle.

3 graphic dials rotate with markers to denote the current time.

2 circles pivot around the watch face as time passes.

60 pyramids flip around with each second whilst the background color slowly changes throughout the day.

Spikey hour and minute hands move around the center as seconds roll by.

Watch as shades of grey slide around. You can choose different background colors using the Android Wear app or on your watch.

A bold hour hand is offset by an elegant minute hand creating a strong, yet understated look.

A beautiful geometric watch face that is in a constant state of motion. The colorway changes each hour too.

A dual time zone face where connected hours, minutes and seconds orbit the center.

Note: All faces work on round and square devices.

ustwo Watch Faces Developer: ustwo Studios
Price: Free
4
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Plants vs. Zombies™ Watch Face

I think this might be the only app EA has released that doesn't include in-app purchases or an up-front price. It's the proper kind of free. It's a simple Plants vs. Zombies analog watch like those Mickey Mouse ones from Disney, but with a zombie.

Whether you're time traveling through zombie-infested worlds in Plants vs. Zombies™, or just tending your garden of battle-ready plants, you'll know when it's “go” time with the Plants vs. Zombies Watch Face companion on your Android Wear device. There are no settings, though.

Porsche Watch Face

You might drive a 2001 Ford Escort with a mismatched bumper and duct tape on the muffler, but at least you can class it up with this Porsche watch face. I hear it makes your car go faster.

Inspired by the definitive Porsche aesthetic of tradition and innovation, its sleek and minimal design transforms with the race season’s racing days, synchronizing Porsche fans around the world. Designed exclusively for Android Wear.

Behance Watch Faces

Behance is an Adobe platform for showcasing the work of designers and artists. The Behance watch pack takes some of that work and slaps it on your wrist. There are a few different watch faces, each with an assortment of backgrounds from different artists. It pops up notifications on the watch that lead to the artist's portfolio, but you can block those.

- Select artwork from the Behance community to be used as watch face backgrounds

- 5 unique watch faces: AG, Classic, Phrase, Pulse, and Window

- Browse the full portfolio of featured artists on your Android device

- Each watch face includes an alternate Ambient Mode

- Backgrounds featuring work from the Behance Portfolios of: Alberto Seveso, Jason Battersby, Jonathan Calugi, Laszlo Varga, Lucas Furla, Marius Roosendaal, Mark Brooks, Martín Azambuja, MIMI.C, Roby Dwi Antono, Serge Aleynikov, Serial Cut, Yosman Botero.

Red Bull Wallpapers

The Red Bull Wallpapers app has all manner of extreme sports images for use on your phone or tablet, but it now has an Android Wear watch face too. It's pretty straightforward—digital clock plus neat picture.

Red Bull Wallpapers brings the World of Red Bull directly to your Android smartphone, tablet, and Android Wear smart watch. Customize your lock and home screen with breathtaking free sports wallpapers and exciting action sports backgrounds in Full HD, or set your watch face to showcase selected epic pictures of the best sports action that change based on the time of day.

All live wallpapers, HD backgrounds, and watch faces are available for free. Give your smartphone or tablet more character with thrilling action sports backgrounds or HD sport wallpaper of your favorite athletes and legends such as Sebastian Vettel (F1), Felix Baumgartner (Red Bull Stratos), Travis Rice (Snowboarding), Ryan Sheckler (Skate), and many more. Enjoy amazing free HD backgrounds while your device is charging with full Daydream support*.

• 10 free & animated live wallpaper

• More than 100 free backgrounds of athletes & HD sports photos

• Customize athlete live wallpapers to your taste

• Favorite backgrounds and HD wallpapers you like

• Let the app choose a new wallpaper everyday

• Interactive sports wallpaper react to user input

• Daydream support* for animated HD backgrounds and free Red Bull sports wallpapers while charging your phone

• Includes Red Bull watch faces that react to the time of day (compatible with devices running Android 5.0+)

All the sports backgrounds you will need:

• Motorsport (Rally, Enduro, FMX, MotoGP, Racing)

• Formula 1 (F1)

• Motocross (MX)

• Skateboarding (Skate)

• Surfing (Surf)

• Mountainbiking (MTB)

• Kitesurfing (Kiteboarding)

• Trial Biking

• And many more

Specialized Bikes Watch Face

Cyclists take note, the Specialized Bikes Watch Face helps you know when it's a good time to hit the road with handy weather graphic, wind conditions, and sunrise/sunset data. It's free too.

Whether you’re planning to tear up some trails or sprint down some tarmac, the Specialized Watch Face is the perfect way to customize Android Wear to your style.

With this watch face you’ll be able to:

• Read time on the move-we’ve optimized the text for display across a wide mode of functions

• Know if now is a good time to ride by seeing what the weather conditions are around you now

• Plan out your rides for the day by seeing precipitation and its intensity throughout the day and times for sunrise and sunset

Note: You can change between Imperial or Metric units by launching the Android Wear app on your connected phone/tablet, tapping the settings icon shown over the top of the Specialized Bikes Watch Face preview image, and changing the Units setting.

Scuba Diver Watch Face

Even though The Scuba Diver Watch Face doesn't include a battery gauge, weather, compass, secondary time zones, or any of the other junk you might find elsewhere, it's still pretty cool. It looks like a real watch without aping someone else's design, and it's easy to read. It's free too.

This watch face is designed for ultimate readability in low light situations. Scuba diver watch face turns your Android Wear smartwatch into a sporty dive watch. It works perfectly on the LG G Watch R and other Android Wear devices.

This dive watch face features:

★ Bold and exclusive sportwatch design

★ No frills, just focus on time

★ Powerful diver watch appearance

Scuba Diver Watch Face Developer: Zuhanden
Price: Free
3.8
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Angles Watch Face

This is another premium watch face that will cost you a buck. It hits most of the high points with battery, date, and a nice spin on the clock. It makes more sense for round watches, but it recently got an update with a better all-black ambient mode for AMOLED screens.

Angles watch face is an elegantly themed design with a smooth rotation of seconds, minutes and hours in a very unique approach to displaying time. Perfect for round or square Android smart watch devices.

• Animated seconds, minutes and hours

• Color change settings for watch

• Day indicator

• Battery indicator

• Unique time rotation display

Designed and Developed by Jose Azua & Marcin Stepien

Odyssey Premium Watch Face

Odyssey is probably my favorite of the premium watch faces that came out with the 5.0 update. It has a subtle phone/watch battery meter, weather, date, and the design looks nice on round and square watches. It's definitely worth a buck.

Travel through space and time with this modern piece of smart watch making. This analog watch face for Android Wear takes elements of classic pilot watches and combines them with futuristic smartwatch functionality and design.

Watch face features:

★ Watch battery indicator

★ Phone battery indicator

★ Date, day and month

Muzei Live Wallpaper

Android Police coverage: Muzei Updated To Version 2.0 With Android Wear Watch Face, Design Tweaks, And More

Muzei is a really cool live wallpaper, and now it has its own Android Wear watch face. It's a simple digital display with no extras, but it always shows the current wallpaper image as the background.

Muzei is a live wallpaper that gently refreshes your home screen each day with famous works of art. It also recedes into the background, blurring and dimming artwork to keep your icons and widgets in the spotlight. Simply double touch the wallpaper or open the Muzei app to enjoy and explore the artwork in its full glory.

Alternatively, you can choose your favorite photos from your own gallery or other apps to use on your home screen. To keep your wallpaper fresh, Muzei will rotate through your favorite photos every few hours.

Finally, Muzei is developer-friendly. All the code is available at http://code.muzei.co and Muzei even offers a simple API that allows you to build your own wallpaper source. For API details, visit http://api.muzei.co.

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Muzei now includes a watch face for Android Wear, so you can see your latest wallpaper right on your wrist.

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Made in New York by Roman Nurik. Muzei is a transliteration of the Russian word музей, which means “museum.”

Featured artwork in Muzei is curated daily by our small staff and made possible thanks to WikiArt.org and its contributors.

Many thanks to Ian Lake for the watch face, and the many other contributors that help make Muzei possible.

Speeds Pro Watch Face

This watch face comes from the same developer of Scuba and Odyssey, so you know you're in for some quality design. Indeed, Speeds looks nice and has plenty of customization options. The big differentiator is its speedometer dial that can show you your speed in real time, or so it claims. This one costs $0.99.

Speeds Pro watch face turns your Android Wear watch into a sporty time machine.

This analog watch face unites classic sportive design with modern smartwatch functionality. This Pro Version of Speeds offers a variety of customization options, so you can adapt the watch face to your personal style and preference.

It is an iconic custom watchface and a speedometer app at the same time.

★ Sports watch with superb readability

★ Easy to use companion speedometer app

★ Adventurous spirit and exclusive design

★ Customizable Android Wear watch face

★ Works for round and squared watches

Watch face customization options:

- Battery level indicator

- Date and day of week

Speedometer wear app (how to):

- Tap on the watch face

- Select start menu

- Choose Speeds App

- Speedometer will be opened

- GPS and speed tracking will be activated

- Works on all Android Wear devices

- Supports round (Moto 360) and rectangular smartwatches (Samsung Gear Live and LG G Watch).

- Does NOT work on Samsung Gear and smartwatches using other operating systems

More watch faces

- Visit our exclusive wearface collection for Android Wear on the Play Store http://goo.gl/QOsOu4

- Also please let us know if you like to have any other watch faces to be added to our selection of watch faces.

- Weather information is provided by http://openweathermap.org

Engineered with love in Germany

Shadow Clock Watch Face

I like this watch face in theory, but in practice it's really dim. The shadows don't provide enough definition to be easily read. Just my opinion, though.

Typographer and designer Craig Ward's unique Wear watch face uses shadows, light and tone along with custom designed numerals to reveal the time.

Taking inspiration from sundials, the face transitions from day into night with light and shadows shifting over the course of 24 hours.

Craig Ward, Creative Director of Fatale, is globally known for his pioneering typographic work under the Words Are Pictures moniker. This watch face is an experiment in taking his process-driven style into a brand new digital medium.

If you don't see the watch face appearing on your watch, hang tight. The watch face requires the latest version of Android Wear, which should be automatically updated on your watch over the next week.

BCBGMAXAZRIA Watch Face

This is another instance of "I don't get it." Developer ustwo made this one as well, so maybe it's worth a look.

BCBGMAXAZRIA, named for the Parisian slang term “bon chic, bon genre,” meaning “good style, good attitude,” unveils a collection of custom watch faces for Android Wear devices, created in collaboration with the CFDA and Google Play. The square and round faces evoke BCBGMAXAZRIA’S signature aesthetic—a timeless blend of European sophistication with an American spirit.

• The BCBGMAXAZRIA watch face styles are available in a curated selection of nine customizable colors: silver, rose gold, gun metal, white, nude, denim, burgundy, black and white, and gold.

• The BCBGMAXAZRIA styles feature a digital face with a date display.

Note: All faces work on round and square devices. Please update to Android 5.0 before installing.

Google Santa Tracker

Android Police coverage: Google's Santa Tracker 2.0 Slides Down The Play Store Chimney

It may be a little late, but you can still have Santa on your wrist in the form of an Android Wear watch face. We had this app on the round up recently for some other Wear integration, but Google rolled out a watch face as part of its 5.0 update, so here we are again.

Santa and the elves' are back for 2014 with new games, a redesigned tracker, updates for Chromecast and Android Wear integration.

Play games with elves in jetpacks, rolling gumballs, and sleighs powered by rockets. Once the 24th arrives, follow Santa in his journey around the world. To learn more, visit http://g.co/santatracker. Happy Holidays.

Battery Watch Face

From the famed developer of Wear Mini Launcher comes a watch face all about your battery level. It shows the time remaining and a gauge around the perimeter. Maybe you don't want to be that obsessed with your battery life, but it's a slick, understated design.

Battery Watch Face is the perfect app if you want to keep an eye on your Android Wear watch battery level.

This fully customizable Watch Face will display the remaining time before you have to charge your watch.

Make it looks like you. With many customization options, it looks exactly as you want it to.

Even if not mandatory, it is recommended that you install Wear Battery Stats to get the full potential of this app. By buying this app you will get the full version of Wear Battery Stats for free.

This app is compatible with all Android Wear devices running Lollipop. You won't be able to use it before you get this version.

Surfline - Watch Face

Surfline is a watch face for surfers that tells you when it's a good time to hit the waves, hang ten, shoot the curl, or whatever the kids are saying these days. It displays the surf height and wind speed along with a general estimation of conditions.

Using live data from Surfline’s team of expert surf forecasters and models, Surfline's watch face displays tide times, surf height, wind speed and direction straight to your Android Wear.

V03 WatchFace for Moto 360

This is a watch face for those information density enthusiasts out there. It shows all sorts of data on the main screen, optimized for the Moto 360.

Custom watch face V03 for Moto 360 (Android Wear)

- show wear's battery level (0%-100%)

- show phone's battery level (0%-100%)

- show temperature (°F or °C)

- show wind speed

- show wind direction

It will be installed on your watch automatically from your phone paired with your watch after a short time and please wait.

After installation,you can choose the watch face from the setting menu.

Or just long tap on the current watch face screen,so watch face selector screen will open.

Option to set your location

- Automatically set your location by using location provider.(Low battery consumption)

- You can set your location manually.(No battery consumption)

Keep your phone's connection to wear to display weather.

It needs following permissions.

- INTERNET (Download weather information)

- FINE_LOCATION (Specify your location automatically)

* V03 WATCHFACE MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY OF WEATHER.

* Please note that technical specifications are subject to change without notice.

Settings:Temperature Unit

- °F (Fahrenheit)

- °C (Celsius)

Settings:Wind Speed Unit

- mph (miles per hour)

- m/s (meters per sec)

- km/h (kilometer per hour)

Settings:Time format

Settings:Date format

Settings:Normal Mode Brightness

You can change watchface brightness on Non-Ambient mode

Settings:Ambient Mode Brightness

You can change watchface brightness on Ambient mode

V02 WatchFace for Moto 360

Custom watch face 'PILOT CHRONO' for Moto 360 (Android Wear)

- show wear's battery level (0%-100%)

- show phone's battery level (0%-100%)

- show temperature (°F or °C)

It will be installed on your watch automatically from your phone paired with your watch after a short time and please wait.

After installation,you can choose the watch face from the setting menu.

Or just long tap on the current watch face screen,so watch face selector screen will open.

Option to set your location

- Automatically set your location by using location provider.(Low battery consumption)

- You can set your location manually.(No battery consumption)

Keep your phone's connection to wear to display weather.

It needs following permissions.

- INTERNET (Download weather information)

- FINE_LOCATION (Specify your location automatically)

More watch faces

- Visit our exclusive watchface collection for Android Wear on the Play Store

http://goo.gl/RITByg

* V02 WATCHFACE MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY OF WEATHER.

* Please note that technical specifications are subject to change without notice.

Settings:Temperature Unit

- °F (Fahrenheit)

- °C (Celsius)

Settings:Normal Mode Brightness

You can change watchface brightness on Non-Ambient mode

Settings:Ambient Mode Brightness

You can change watchface brightness on Ambient mode

Celestial 3D Watch Face

Android Police coverage: DualBoot Games Awakens To Create This Celestial 3D Watch Face For Wear

The Celestial 3D Watch Face takes a more skeuomorphic approach to an Android Wear watch face. It looks like a glowing old-timey pocket watch, You can even place a photo in the UI. It's not really my taste, but it has pretty good reviews.

Elegant design and meticulous engineering combine to bring you a stylish, animated, and customizable 3D watch face – exclusively for Android Wear.

Track the celestial motion of the sun and moon in true 3D, from dawn to dusk and dusk to dawn. The watch face smoothly animates throughout the day, perfectly matching your local sunrise and sunset times.

Personalize your watch with your own photographs and engraved messages. Choose how often to automatically reveal the alternate watch face with your customized image and engraving, show the personalized watch face all the time, or turn it off completely.

Show off the softly glowing ambient mode inspired by mechanical drawings and classic design schematics.

Intricately designed to remain in constant motion while preserving the battery life of your Android Wear device.

Time and Space Watch Face

It's a watch face The Doctor would approve of.

Just in time for the Christmas Special.!. Add some Time and Space to your Android Wear Watch. Choose from three watch face designs, all containing subtle, delightful animations.

There are two different screwdrivers that light up, and a blinking police box.

Keep an eye out for the Easter Egg - I would tell you where (or WHEN) to find it, but after I look away, I seem to forget.

Ranger Military Watch Face

This is another neat premium face from Zuhanden. It costs $0.99 and comes with options for weather, compass display, a step tracker, date, and a few different themes.

Ranger is a military style watch face for your Android Wear device. Discover the urban ranger in you.

This watch face features a special night mode design for ultimate readability in low light situations. Military engineering combined with unparalleled precision and reliability creates an iconic watch face ready to meet your most demanding challenges

This analog watchface will make your Android Wear device even more iconic:

★ Military watch with special night mode

★ Multiple customization features

★ Adventurous spirit and exclusive design

★ Multiple functions in small dials

★ Works for round and squared watches

Watch face customization options:

- 24h military time

- Battery level indicators

- Date and day of week

Ranger Military Watch Face Developer: Zuhanden
Price: 0.99
3.5
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Alien 3D Watch Face

Maxelus is known for making some really awesome live wallpapers, but this is its first attempt at a watch face. It looks nice enough with some cool 3D effects, but the little rotating second icon seems unnecessary. It does have a lot of options, though.

Alien 3D Watch Face is a animated 3D watch face for Android Wear devices.

Works great on both rounded and squared watches. Customizable themes, colors, date format and more.

+ 6 themes background with 3D animation

+ random seconds sign

+ custom digits color

+ custom second sign color

+ rounded and squared watches

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