A Garmin-only wearable companion with a brand-new look.
by zoop · cc.zachy.pulse
Neon-blue, near-black, fully on-device. No accounts, no vendor cloud, no telemetry.
Pulse is a focused fork of Gadgetbridge that pairs with Garmin watches and reskins the whole experience around a single idea: your health data should look good and stay on your phone.
Everything Gadgetbridge does to talk to your Garmin over Bluetooth is still here — Pulse just rebuilds the entire surface on top of it: a new home, new tabs, custom typography, light/dark theming, accent colours, and a pile of features that aren't in upstream.
- Today — a big animated steps ring with a rounded nub, tinted hero 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 chunky 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 in-depth, neon-styled charts.
- Week in Review — an animated weekly recap with an adaptive challenge and a Sunday-evening summary.
- 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.
See app/src/main/res/xml/changelog_master.xml for the full, version-by-version history.
Near-black UI, neon-blue accents, Unbounded + Satoshi type. Built to feel like zachy.cc.
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.