
For a different kind of runner
TERMINAL
A familiar interface. A fresh start.
Download via Garmin Connect IQ. Secure purchase via Lemon Squeezy.
Part of Data Pack – 3 faces for $11.99 · Part of Complete First Collection – 11 faces for $24.99
Check your watch’s compatibility ↓Meet TERMINAL.
TERMINAL turns your watch into a retro command line. A black screen, white monospace readouts, green prompt lines and a big pixel-block clock: the look of a 1980s terminal, drawn for a modern AMOLED display.
Everything you need for the day sits on one screen. Under the date and phone link status, the clock shows the time in chunky 5x7 pixel digits with running seconds while the watch is awake. Below it a stats row prints heart rate, steps and battery, and a second block lists sunrise, altitude, today's distance and active minutes. The face closes with a prompt and a blinking-style block cursor: > keep.going().
The always-on mode keeps only the date and the pixel clock, dimmed, so the display stays easy on the battery. Every value falls back to -- when the watch has no data yet, and units follow your device settings (km/mi, m/ft, 12/24 h).
Make the terminal yours from the Connect IQ app: write your own two prompt lines and the closing command, pick the accent colour of the prompts and cursor, choose which three stats the row prints (heart rate, steps, battery, Body Battery, stress, calories, floors, distance or active minutes), swap altitude for sunset time, floors, distance, calories, Body Battery, stress or active minutes, force 12/24 h, add a leading zero or hide the seconds.
Free 7-day trial. After that a license key (USD 4.99) is required, available at allezfaces.lemonsqueezy.com.
Features
- Retro terminal look: black background, monospace text, green prompt lines - Big 5x7 pixel-block time, seconds shown while awake, 12/24 h honoured - Date with weekday, phone connection status ("BT OK") - Heart rate, steps and battery with small icons - Sunrise time (via Garmin weather) and current altitude (m or ft) - Today's distance (km or mi) and active minutes - Dimmed always-on mode with date and time only - Customisable from the Connect IQ phone app: prompt texts, accent colour, stats row, second detail line, time format, leading zero, seconds - No permissions beyond sensor history and the user profile
Settings
All settings are edited in the Garmin Connect IQ phone app; the face updates immediately (defaults reproduce the stock look). Long texts are cut so they always stay inside the round screen.
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Time format | Same as watch / 12 hour / 24 hour | Same as watch |
| Leading zero on hour (12 h) | on / off | off |
| Show seconds | small pixel seconds next to the time (awake only) | on |
| Accent color | Terminal green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, Orange, Red, Purple, Pink, White — prompt lines, "OK" and the cursor | Terminal green |
| Prompt line 1 / 2 | free text, max 22 characters, shown after > | Another day. / Further than yesterday_ |
| Bottom prompt | free text, max 20 characters, shown after > with the block cursor | keep.going() |
| Stats row — left / middle / right | Heart rate / Steps / Battery / Body Battery / Stress / Calories / Floors climbed / Distance today / Active minutes today | HR / STP / BAT |
| Second detail line | Altitude / Sunset time / Floors climbed / Distance / Calories / Body Battery / Stress / Active minutes (pick another if your watch has no barometer) | Altitude |
What's new
1.1.0 — Easier to read: larger labels, units and secondary data, same design. Wide times and long values always fit. Accepts pack and Complete Collection license keys. 1.0.0 — Initial release.
Permissions
Background, Communications, SensorHistory, UserProfile.
Compatible watches
These models support TERMINAL. Check your exact model and size before buying.
- Approach S70 42mm
- Approach S70 47mm
- D2 Mach 1
- D2 Mach 2
- D2 Mach 2 Pro
- Descent Mk3 43mm / Mk3i 43mm
- Descent Mk3i 51mm
- Enduro 3
- epix (Gen 2) / quatix 7 Sapphire
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 42mm
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 47mm / quatix 7 Pro
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 51mm / D2 Mach 1 Pro / tactix 7 – AMOLED Edition
- fēnix 7 / quatix 7
- fēnix 7 Pro
- fēnix 7 Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi)
- fēnix 7S
- fēnix 7S Pro
- fēnix 7X / tactix 7 / quatix 7X Solar / Enduro 2
- fēnix 7X Pro
- fēnix 7X Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi)
- fēnix 8 43mm
- fēnix 8 47mm / 51mm / tactix 8 47mm / 51mm / quatix 8 47mm / 51mm
- fēnix 8 Pro 47mm / 51mm / MicroLED / quatix 8 Pro 47mm / 51mm
- fēnix 8 Solar 47mm
- fēnix 8 Solar 51mm / tactix 8 Solar 51mm
- fēnix 9 43mm
- fēnix 9 47mm / 51mm
- fēnix 9 Pro 43mm
- fēnix 9 Pro 47mm
- fēnix 9 Pro 51mm
- fēnix 9 Pro Solar 47mm
- fēnix 9 Pro Solar 51mm
- fēnix E
- Forerunner 165
- Forerunner 165 Music
- Forerunner 170
- Forerunner 170 Music
- Forerunner 265
- Forerunner 265s
- Forerunner 570 42mm
- Forerunner 570 47mm
- Forerunner 70
- Forerunner 955 / Solar
- Forerunner 965
- Forerunner 970
- MARQ (Gen 2) Athlete / Adventurer / Captain / Golfer / Carbon Edition / Commander - Carbon Edition
- MARQ (Gen 2) Aviator
- Venu 4 41mm
- Venu 4 45mm / D2 Air X15
- vívoactive 6
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