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DIALFORGE
Man Runner

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€6.49

One-time payment. No subscription. The code works on the watch whose ID you enter.

  1. Install the face from Connect IQ (7 days free).
  2. On the watch: face settings > Buy / Unlock, scan the QR code.
  3. Pay and paste the code in the face settings.

A running watch face for AMOLED watches, built around an illustration of a male runner at sunrise, with heart rate zones, steps, distance and weather, pressure and elevation panels.

A running watch face built around an illustration of a runner at sunrise. Time and date on the left, heart rate with its zones, steps and distance under them, and three glass panels on the right: weather, pressure and elevation. The runner is an AI generated illustration, not a photo of a real person.

7-day free trial, then a one-time unlock code at dialforge.dev (no subscription).

  • Heart rate with a five colour zone bar and a marker at the current rate. The zones come from your Garmin profile.
  • Steps and distance, each with a progress bar. Garmin has no daily distance goal, so the face has its own setting, Distance goal, from 1 to 100 (km or miles, as your watch is set). The default is 25.
  • Weather panel with the temperature and arrows for max and min. Pressure panel with hPa and 16 bars from the last 24 hours. Elevation panel with the gain, a 24 hour altitude profile and the descent.
  • A top capsule with altitude and a bottom capsule with the watch battery.
  • 8 fields, each one picked from 21 options (altitude, elevation gain, vertical speed, heart rate, calories, steps, battery, temperature, pressure, feels like, max and min, distance, floors, descent, Body Battery, stress, active minutes, sunrise, sunset, weekly cycling distance). A new field brings its own icon, colour, unit and small chart.
  • One scene with the runner, 3 mountain scenes without him (switch Figure off) or plain black. The background never changes by itself.
  • 10 accent colours (cream by default), separate colours for icons and numbers, three text sizes (normal, large, extra large) that enlarge the values and the panels, battery as percent or days, 12 or 24 hour time, date in 13 languages. Seconds are off by default.
  • Always-on mode: black with only the dimmed time, shifted every minute. About 3 percent of the pixels are lit.
  • Made for AMOLED watches (48 models).

Honest limits: the pressure chart and the altitude profile use the last 24 hours of sensor history. On a new watch or after a short time on the wrist the panel shows no chart. Without heart rate zones in your profile the bar has no marker. Weather needs a phone connection. Where Garmin has no data for a field, the face shows "--", never a made-up value. The face does not connect to the internet.

After 7 days without a code the face still shows the time and your data, the settings go back to defaults and a short note about the code appears at the bottom. You get the code for your watch UID: in the settings, the last item (Unlock code) shows the UID and the days left and lets you type the code. The same code works in the Garmin Connect app.

Settings: hold MENU on the watch, then Watch face, then Customize, or use the Garmin Connect app. The watch menu has no live preview: press SELECT on a list item for the next value, and the change shows on the face when you leave the menu.

Something looks wrong on your watch? Write to me at https://dialforge.dev/faces/manrun/ and I will fix it. Dialforge is a small project and I could not test every watch model myself.

Works on fenix 9, fenix 8, Forerunner 970, Forerunner 570, Venu 4, Forerunner 965, Forerunner 265, Venu 3 and more.

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Permissions and privacy

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

  • Sensor history: Reads recent values stored by the watch (for example Body Battery, stress, heart rate, steps trend).
  • Your profile: Reads your Garmin profile on the watch (for example age, weight, heart rate zones) to calculate values for you.
  • Watch data (complications): Shows data from other watch features, such as battery or steps, on the face.
  • Location (GPS): Uses the watch location for distance, speed or sun and moon times. The location is not sent anywhere.

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

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