DayArc
One reading at a time, changing on a fixed schedule through the day. One setting: an accent colour.
On the wrist.
Accent colour
Instinct
Four windows, one glance each.
The same clock every day decides what's on screen. Nothing to open; the only thing to set is an accent colour, and Auto needs nothing.
Morning · 5:00–9:30
Feels-like temperature, the day’s high and low, chance of rain.
Midday · 9:30–17:00
A stress reading, shown as a number and a plain gauge.
Evening · 17:00–23:00
Your Body Battery reading, the same way.
Night · 23:00–5:00
Time and date only.
A number, never a verdict.
Stress and Body Battery are shown as a number and a plain gauge, one colour, never a mood word, an emoji, or a red/amber/green scale. DayArc doesn't say whether a reading is good or bad — Garmin's own guidance doesn't either.
No reading yet? The line says so in words — "Stress unavailable right now", "Body Battery unavailable" — never a blank field, never a guess.
Looking for more fields?
DayArc keeps one reading per window on purpose. DayArc Pro is a separate, paid listing with the same four windows and a denser grid of fields under each one — steps, heart rate, calendar, and more.
- One setting
- An accent colour, chosen in the Garmin Connect app or on the watch (Customize) — Auto by default, where each time of day has its own colour. Everything else is decided at build time; this platform's most common complaint is settings that don't save, so DayArc keeps its one setting small, and if it's ever missing the face just shows its normal colours.
- Nothing leaves the watch
- No location, no network, no account. DayArc reads data your watch already has and keeps it there.
76 Garmin watches.
Round and rectangular screens, AMOLED and memory-in-pixel, and the black-and-white Instinct. Tested on a Forerunner 965 and at every screen size in Garmin’s simulator. The Connect IQ Store shows whether your exact model is listed.
- Forerunner
- 70, 165, 170, 255, 255s, 265, 265s, 570, 955, 965, 970
- fēnix
- 7, 7 Pro, 7S, 7S Pro, 7X, 7X Pro, 8, 8 Pro, 8 Solar, 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro Solar, E
- epix
- Gen 2, Pro (Gen 2)
- Enduro
- 3, 4
- MARQ
- Gen 2, Gen 3
- Venu
- 2, 2 Plus, 2S, 3, 3S, 4, Sq 2, X1
- vívoactive
- 5, 6
- Instinct
- 3 AMOLED, 3 Solar, Crossover AMOLED, E
- Descent
- G2, Mk3, Mk3i
- D2
- Air X10, Mach 1, Mach 2, Mach 2 Pro
- Approach
- S50, S70, S72
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