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A Garmin-only wearable companion with a modern ui.
by zach · cc.zachy.pulse
A fork of gadgetbridge redesigned to look more modern, with a primarily blue and black color scheme
Pulse is a focused fork of Gadgetbridge that pairs with Garmin watches and reskins the whole app to have a simpler, more accented UI.
The base gadgetbridge is still here, its just been fully redesigned, I haven't added any new compatibility, and I don't plan on it, as that's not my expertise
- Today — an animated stats ring, customizable tiles that fill with your progress, and a personalised greeting.
- Goal celebration & streaks — confetti and a notification when you hit a goal; tap the flame for a full streak calendar. Optional "any goal counts" streak mode.
- Health tab — a customizable grid of metric cards (heart rate, body energy, stress, SpO₂, HRV, respiration…) each with a 7-day mini chart.
- Sleep tab — a sleep score, last-night stage hypnogram, nap detection, and a 7-night trend.
- Fitness — browse recorded workouts and, detailed charts.
- Week in Review — an animated weekly review with a summary of your week
- Achievements — unlockable badges you can share as cards.
- Home-screen widgets — full + compact steps widgets with a refresh button, plus a Quick Settings tile.
- Make it yours — Light / Dark / System, and accent colours (Neon Blue, Violet, Coral, Mint, Pink).
- Weather — fetches local weather (Open-Meteo) and pushes it to your watch for supported models.
(The internet permission currently isn't optional, even though the weather fetching is, this will be fixed in the next update)
See
app/src/main/res/xml/changelog_master.xmlfor the full, version-by-version history.
Near-black UI, neon-blue accents, Unbounded + Satoshi type.
Uses the standard Gadgetbridge Gradle setup. Pulse ships as the mainline flavour:
./gradlew :app:assembleMainlineDebugThe APK lands in app/build/outputs/apk/mainline/debug/.
Like Gadgetbridge, Pulse keeps everything on your device. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no data ever leaves your phone except to talk to your watch (and, optionally, to fetch weather).
Pulse is built on the excellent work of the Gadgetbridge project and the entire Garmin device stack it provides. Huge thanks to all of its contributors.
Pulse is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPLv3), the same as Gadgetbridge. See LICENSE. As a fork, the source stays open — if you distribute a build, you must make the corresponding source available under the same terms.
Pulse is an independent, unofficial fork. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Gadgetbridge, Garmin, or any wearable vendor.