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It's time again for another Android Wear watch face round up, and this time we've collected five fantastic and simple watch faces for you to check out. It's easy to get caught up in all of our technology, and feel overloaded from the amount of information constantly being thrown at us. These watch faces aim to keep things simple, and make it easy to get the information you need at a glance.
If you've been pining for some simplicity, come check these out!
Animated
Since Spring seems to be taking it's time getting to us, having a breath of fresh air on your watch isn't a bad idea. If that's the case, then Animated Watch Faces ought to be on your list. It's a simple watch face, but one that still gives you plenty of information at a glance. This includes the date, time, battery power, and even a snapshot of what the weather is currently like.
Animated watch faces give you access to a few faces for free, and you can buy more from within the app if you see one that catches your eye. Each background has it's own animation that will play every time you wake your watch up. There are also a number of options you can access by opening up the app on your phone. These include things like choosing between 12 and 24-hour formats, the mode of the date readout, and whether the weather and battery are shown on the watch face.
Download the Animated Watch Faces (free with in-app purchases)
Relaxing Thoughts
The Relaxing Thoughts Watch Face manages to blend comics and watch faces in a really neat way. You'll be able to see the time, date, and your battery percentage, all written out in the thought bubbles of various characters. It stays simple while still giving you access to some fun features. and making sure that you have at least the basics of info you need while on the go.
You can choose the color of your background, pick from 5 different display languages, and decide which character will be living on your watch face. All of the options are available in a single menu on your smart watch. There is a list starts with your language preference, then turns into your background color, before finally giving you the options of which character to display. The one thing to remember is that the time is always written out in words, so instead of 4:30 you'll see half past four.
Download the Relaxing Thoughts Watch Face ($0.99)
Fuji Watch Face
If you enjoy cute but minimal watch faces, then the Fuji Watch Face should be right up your alley. The only information that you'll find displayed are the date, and the current weather. What you will get is a beautiful Mt. Fuji that comes with multiple different backgrounds, as well as several different animations. While there aren't many options, you do get access to a few right from your smart watch.
Mt. Fuji dominates the screen of your watch, but you'll find a digital readout of the time on the upper right side of your screen. Just underneath the time is an icon showing you the weather. The background of this watch face changes dependent on that weather going between a sunny, rainy, cloudy, or night time theme. There are also timed animations of Mt.Fuji erupting, Sakura falling, and a Shinkansen passing. The only options you'll find are to manually switch between themes, or to adjust how often animations occur.
Download the Fuji Watch Face ($0.99)
Elegant Binary
The Elegant Binary Watch Face lives up to it's name. It doesn't display much information, concerning itself only with giving you the time, date and your current battery percentage. It does this in a way that's quite pleasing to the eye, and offers you access to plenty of settings from your smartwatch. These include being able to toggle features on and off, change the color, and adjust the size of the information that is being displayed.
While the time is displayed digitally in gigantic numbers, there is a second way to tell the time. Colored dots fill in two rows, with accompanying numbers. By adding the numbers of the filled in dots, you'll get the time.The top row displays the hour, with the minute displayed underneath. The date is at the top of the screen, but it's quit small which can make it hard to read. Your battery percentage is just below the time, at the bottom of the screen.
Download the Elegant Binary Watch Face(free)
Meter Watch face
The Meter Watch Face is super simple, and really only concerned with giving you one piece of information. You won't find any settings or features for this watch face, and the only information that is displayed is the date and time. That time layout takes up the whole of your smartwatch screen to give you the most up to date timestamp with three animated meters that run nonstop.
The top meter gives you the day of the week, and the day of the month and is the slowest moving meter. Dominating the middle of your screen is the hour and minute displayed in a 12-hour format. The third meter takers up the bottom of the screen and runs the fastest, showing the passage of seconds. Altogether you get a very simple, but interesting watch face to tell you the time.
Download the Meter Watch Face(Free)
So there you have the best simple watch faces we have to offer this go around. Did you see a watch face you liked, or is there a watch face you think we should be talking about? Be sure to sound off about in the comments below and let us know all about it!
