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Virtual pet

Critter Park

Raise a small pet that lives on your wrist and grows with your steps.

Coming soon to Connect IQ

Critter Park icon

In preparation

Critter Park is not in the Connect IQ store yet. It will appear there when Garmin approves it. This page will then get the install button.

Get a note by e-mail when it is out

Critter Park is where your pet lives. You feed it, play with it, clean up after it and watch it grow from an egg to a senior. Your steps turn into meals, so your walk is also its dinner. The Critter Dial watch face shows the pet all day, but it is optional.

  • 12 species: cat, dog and bird to start, then rabbit, hamster, fox, panda, frog, penguin, dinosaur, dragon and a blob
  • Care: meals, play, cleaning, a bath, medicine, lights out, learning, stroking by touch, and a streak of days in a row
  • 6 mini games: Hop Run (jump over stones and bushes), Catch, Colour Memory, Left or Right, Rhythm and Trip, a walk counted in your real steps
  • Shop with body colours, patterns, 24 accessories and rooms, paid in coins from steps, games, daily tasks and achievements. Nothing costs real money.
  • 3 daily tasks, 24 achievements, a caretaker level, a gallery of past pets, your own pet name (set in Garmin Connect)
  • Interface in 13 languages. Everything stays on the watch: no account, no cloud.

Limits: a pet left alone for days gets hungry and sad, and after a very long absence it leaves. Steps come from the watch, so a watch taken off feeds nobody.

After 7 days without a code your pet stays with you. Feeding, cleaning, play, the streak, daily tasks and food from your steps keep working, with the cat, dog and bird eggs and the games Hop Run and Left/Right. The code adds the other 9 species, the shop (colours, patterns, accessories, rooms), the other 4 games, the gallery and your own pet name.

One code for the app and the face: buy it for the watch UID shown in Critter Park (Menu, Unlock code) and type it in right there on the watch, or in Garmin Connect. The watch face unlocks by itself the next time it reads your pet. You can also type the same code in the face settings.

How to use it

Open Critter Park from the watch's app menu.

Controls: UP and DOWN or a swipe choose an action, START or a tap uses it, BACK leaves. A long press on UP or MENU (on the screen for watches with two buttons) opens the menu: shop, tasks, achievements, statistics, gallery, settings.

Permissions and privacy

This product asks the watch for the permissions below. Connect IQ shows them when you install it.

  • Your profile: Reads your Garmin profile on the watch (for example age, weight, heart rate zones) to calculate values for you.

This product does not use the internet and sends no data to our servers.

Compatible watches

51mm, D2 Air X15, D2 Mach 1 Pro, epix (Gen 2), epix Pro (Gen 2) 42mm, epix Pro (Gen 2) 47mm, epix Pro (Gen 2) 51mm, Forerunner 165, Forerunner 165 Music, Forerunner 265, Forerunner 265s, Forerunner 570 42mm, Forerunner 570 47mm, Forerunner 965, Forerunner 970, fēnix 8 43mm, fēnix 8 47mm, fēnix 8 Pro 47mm, fēnix 9 43mm, fēnix 9 47mm, fēnix 9 Pro 43mm, fēnix 9 Pro 47mm, fēnix 9 Pro 51mm, fēnix E, MicroLED, quatix 7 Pro, quatix 7 Sapphire, quatix 8 47mm, quatix 8 Pro 47mm, tactix 7 – AMOLED Edition, tactix 8 47mm, Venu 2, Venu 2 Plus, Venu 2S, Venu 3, Venu 3S, Venu 4 41mm, Venu 4 45mm, Venu Sq 2, Venu Sq 2 Music, Venu X1, vívoactive 5, vívoactive 6

FAQ

What happens after the 7-day free trial?

The app shows a screen asking for a one-time unlock code from dialforge.dev instead of opening normally. Buy the code once below, no subscription.

Does the app send my data to Dialforge?

No. The app works fully offline, and the unlock code is checked on the watch itself, without contacting any server.

The app does not work as described on my watch. Can I get a refund?

Yes. Write through the feedback form below, or to the e-mail in the footer. If we cannot fix it, we refund you, as described in the terms.

Changing your watch?

Write to me and I will move your code for free.

Changelog

Tell us how to make it better

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