Name: Telex
Rating: 4.7 (13 reviews)
Author: MiguelT

Telex is a free digital watch face with a big seven-segment clock. You can draw the digits four ways: solid segments, halftone dots, separate LCD windows, or square lamps. Faint unlit segments sit behind the lit ones, the way a real display looks.

There are 12 colour themes, from white on blue and amber on teal to a classic grey-green LCD, plus one that uses any colour code you type in.

Above the clock is a strip with the days of the week, today lit, and a small circle beside it with the date, the seconds, your heart rate or another number. Above the strip is a line of text, and above that a small graph of your heart rate, Body Battery, stress, elevation, barometer or steps. Under the clock is the weather in words, then four labelled lines like a teleprinter printout, a bar on each side of the clock, and the battery with the days it has left.

There are seven pre-made layouts: Default, Training, Outdoors, Minimal, Text above the clock, Phone and time, and Hiking. Pick one and every slot is set for you, or change any slot yourself. Each slot can show one of about 30 values:
- steps, distance, floors, calories
- heart rate, Body Battery, stress, respiration, recovery time
- weather in words, temperature, chance of rain, today's high and low
- sunrise, sunset, altitude, barometer, solar intensity
- notifications, alarms, phone connection, battery percent or days left

Any of them can be switched off. On a touchscreen watch, touch and hold a value to open its own screen.

The clock can also run fast. When you turn that on, the face shows a time a few minutes ahead, somewhere between two limits you choose, and picks a new random amount several times a day without telling you what it is. You can't subtract it in your head, so you leave a little early. A small + beside the clock is lit while it runs fast, and you can limit it to certain hours or days. The seconds stay real. It is off until you turn it on.

On AMOLED watches the always-on face keeps the clock, the weekday strip and the lines around it, with the time in full white. It stays under Garmin's brightness limit for always-on screens, so the watch never blanks it. There are four always-on layouts and four brightness levels in the settings.

You can change the settings in the Connect IQ app on your phone or on the watch itself.

Telex is free, with no trial and nothing to unlock. It has no internet permission, so nothing it reads leaves your watch.