Watchsmith
David Smith (tweet):
Watchsmith is an application that seeks to give you complete control over the appearance and utility of your Apple Watch.
First, it provides a wide array of complications. Each of these is completely customizable, with controls for things like font, color, hand type and location. The initial set is just over 50 unique complications, with dozens more planned down the road. My goal is to provide a complication for just about every use and let you make it look just how you want. In the absence of 3rd-party watch faces, this is the closest I can get to making my own watch faces.
Second, rather than simply providing a static display of the complication you configure, Watchsmith lets you dynamically schedule the complications to appear on your watch face. This is done using time based triggers (with plans for additional trigger types down the road).
This looks really cool. The app is free with a $20/year subscription to enable additional options and use data sources that have recurring costs.
As Smith has previously explained, while third-party faces may never be possible, several first-party faces already offer significant room for customization. The Infograph face, for example, contains eight different complication slots; if a rich array of third-party complications were available, you could build a highly customized watch face using the existing faces provided by Apple.
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The iPhone version of Watchsmith is all about creating your custom complications.
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Having complications automatically cycle through the same slot was pioneered in HomeRun by Aaron Pearce last year, and I’m thrilled to see another app follow HomeRun’s example. Although Apple itself doesn’t enable scheduling complications through a native feature, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that change in a future version of watchOS.
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It frustrates me that 6 years into WatchOS and we still don't have third party watch faces. We have this amazing technology that is being hampered by a silly policy.
