Best Google Play Store options
Samsung Galaxy Watch smartwatches have the ability to tap into tons of superb watch faces and help you personalize the look on your wrist.
Whether you own a Galaxy Watch 7, the more rugged Galaxy Watch Ultra or the more budget-friendly Galaxy Watch FE you can access watch faces via Google’s Play Store.
Read on to find out how to find and download great watch faces, and a pick of our top choices for your wrist.
How to download Galaxy Watch faces from your phone
There are thousands of watch faces available to download for the Galaxy Watch. There are no restrictions, so anything goes.
While the Galaxy Watch comes pre-loaded with tons of watch faces via the Galaxy Wear companion app, there are even more to choose from the Google Play Store.
In true Wear OS style, the process is a little fiddly, and actually differs from depending on the watch face you choose. Read on for how to download faces.
1. Fire up Google Play
Head to the Google Play Store on your Android phone.
2. Find watch faces
The interface of Google Play is quite chaotic. On the apps tab choose Categories and then watch faces to find the full selection.
3. Find a watch face you like
Browse through the watch faces and tap anything that catches your eye.
4. Press Install
The watch face will then be installed. Wait a few seconds, and then press Open. You’ll then get a preview of the watch face app on your smartphone, and there will be some permissions to agree to. After this, you’ll see a message that the watch face has been installed on your smartwatch. Usually, you’ll see this happen on the Galaxy Watch as well.
5. Find it on your Galaxy Watch
Now head to the Galaxy Watch. Press and hold the watch face and slide across to Add. Now scroll all the way down until you get to Downloads, which is usually last on the list. You will see your watch face there.
How to download Galaxy Watch Faces from your Watch
1. Go to the app tray
Swipe up from the watch face to get to the screen where all of your apps live. Look for the Google Play Store icon (a big play button sign) and tap to launch.
2. Search for a watch face
From the main Google Play Store screen you’ll find some recommended watch faces to pick from. You can also tap the magnifying glass icon to search by using the virtual QWERTY keyboard to find something.
3. Install the watch face
Once you’ve found a good one, tap the install button. It might take a few seconds or a minute to complete that download process so don’t be surprised if it isn’t instantly done.
4. Choose the new watch face
Once downloaded, you can tap on the watch face and you will be prompted to Set the watch face. Tap that and then you can go back to the main watch face screen and you’ll find your new watch face in place.
Best Galaxy Watch faces to download
Blaine 021 Hybrid Watch Face
If you like your smartwatch to have more of that analogue watch feeling, this face also makes room for your smrts including heart rate, you step count and how much ground you’ve covered for the day. You do also have scope to change the background and shade of the analogue face too.
Free | Google Play
Minimal & Simple Watch
The name says it here really. This face keep things clean with a pared back look that does a more elegant job of displaying data like step counts, the date, heart rate and even making room to show off the time in a digital fashion if you like the best of both worlds.
Free | Google Play
NR03: Watch Face
This is another really clean-looking option that ditches the extra stats to simply be a place and face that tells the time and nothing else. Unsurprisingly, there’s no customisation support here so it’s really about keeping things minimal and really sleek way.
Free | Google Play
Vanishing Hour – Watch Face
Another one for minimalist and analogue fans, this face is nicely customisable with the ability to tinker with the colour, the dial style, display in a 24 hour format and will even let you pick from different minute hand looks.
Free | Google Play
Sci-Fi Digital Watch Face
Giving your Galaxy Watch face a more futuristic makeover, you can switch up the neon shades and makes room for plenty of your stats including the temperature, daily step count progress and can even squeeze in space for sunrise and sunset reminders.
Free | Google Play
Digital OLED
This is a great digital watch face that puts time, date and battery stats front and centre while also neatly displaying the day at the top of the face with support to switch the background and colour in a neatly organised option for your Galaxy Watch.
Free | Google Play
Moon Steps Watch Face
This is a digital watch face that fills the screen with the time, date and day and in the corner tucks away the moon that shows displays the daily phases of the moon to make sure you don’t miss out on a full one.
Free | Google Play
SG Sport 2
This data-packed face does a really good job of presenting stats like you’re combining one of Google’s Tiles with a watch face to give you the best of both worlds. It also gives you pretty impressive array of colour options to get it it in the tone you really want.
Free | Google Play
Outdoor – Mountain & Sea
A good match for any Galaxy Watch Ultra fans, this one of the most visually appealing faces in the Play Store with themes aplenty to choose from and room for multiple complications to make the stats that matter most of you just a glance away.
Free | Google Play
MNM
An analogue watch face that will give you Galaxy Watch a big splash of colour, it keeps the complications support vast with the ability to show off sleep, stress, heart rate and blood oxygen stats, which might be hard to focus on when you’re looking at all of those pretty colours.
Free | Google Play
