--- title: "Dotpace: Minimalist Garmin Watch Face" description: "Dotpace is a free, minimal Garmin watch face with 36 metrics and on-device Trends for VO₂max, Stress, Body Battery and Resting Heart Rate." canonical_url: "https://runima.fit/blog/dotpace-garmin-watchface" --- > Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://runima.fit/llms.txt) **Dotpace** is a minimal dot-matrix watch face for Garmin Connect IQ devices, built by the same team behind Runima. It pairs a calm, readable clock with an on-device Trends page: history charts for your watch's own key health metrics, drawn the way we'd chart them on a dashboard — right on your wrist, no phone required. Dotpace is a standalone watch face, not a companion app. It runs entirely on your watch, works independently of the Runima web app, and doesn't sync, connect, or share data with Runima — or with anything else. ## The dot-matrix look Dotpace centres the time in **Doto**, a rounded dot-matrix typeface, with your chosen stats arranged in calm, even rows of dots around it. No gradients, no clutter — just clean type that reads at a glance, in direct sunlight or at 2am. Seconds are optional and only show while the screen is awake. The date follows your watch's language, so French, German, Spanish and other Latin-alphabet languages see their own day and month names. It ships two layouts in one app. **Rows** puts two stats above the time and two below, with the date shifting to frame whichever side is emptier — leave a slot empty and a lone stat recentres against the screen edge. **Cross** pins one stat to each of the four screen edges with time dead-centre. ## Thirty-six metrics, four slots Four metric slots fill clockwise, or leave any of them blank. The choices are grouped into six categories on the watch, so picking one is a couple of taps rather than a long scroll: - **Activity** — Steps, Distance, Calories, Active Calories, Floors Climbed, Floors Descended, Intensity Minutes, Move Bar - **Body** — Heart Rate, Stress, Body Battery, Breathing Rate, Recovery Time, Pulse Ox, VO₂max, Skin Temperature - **Device** — Notifications, Phone Connection, Watch Battery - **Weather** — current conditions, Feels Like, Today's High and Low, Humidity, UV Index, Wind Speed, Elevation, Barometric Pressure, Sunrise/Sunset - **Weekly Totals** — Distance, Steps, Floors Climbed, Calories, Active Minutes - **Wheelchair** — Pushes, Push Distance Metric or imperial units and 12- or 24-hour time follow your watch's own settings. If your watch can't supply a metric, Dotpace shows a calm "--" instead of a wrong number. ## Track your trends, right on your wrist Open Dotpace's on-device settings and tap **Trends** for the history of **VO₂max**, **Stress**, **Body Battery** (daily low and high) and **Resting Heart Rate** — the signals that quietly drive a lot of your training readiness. Three overview pages come first — 90, 30 and 14 days — each lining up how every metric has moved over that window. Changes are colored by direction: green when a metric moves the healthy way, red when it doesn't. Lower is better for Stress and Resting Heart Rate, higher for the rest. Then each metric gets its own 90-day dot-and-line chart, with separate 90-day and 30-day trend badges, so you can tell a long-term shift from a recent dip. A single VO₂max reading tells you almost nothing on its own — the same number can be climbing or falling depending on where it started. The chart is what turns it into something you can act on. On a fresh install, Trends shows "Collecting data..." until it has at least two days to compare. All Trends history is computed and stored on the watch itself — nothing is uploaded anywhere to draw these charts. ## Make it yours Colour the hour and minute digits independently, and pick separate colours for your metric values and their labels. The palette runs thirty-two tones deep — sixteen bright shades for a punchy, high-contrast look, sixteen deeper shades for something quieter, plus white, black and grey. Pair that with Dark or Light theme, and Dotpace scales pixel-perfectly across 100+ round Garmin watches, from 218px dials up to 454px AMOLED flagships. ## How Dotpace has grown - **First release** — the Doto clock, Rows and Cross layouts, four metric slots with seventeen everyday stats, and Dark and Light themes. - **July 2026** — Trends arrived: a 90-day chart for VO₂max, Stress, Body Battery and Resting Heart Rate, plus one overview page. The palette grew to thirty-two tones. - **Later updates** — the metric list more than doubled, to thirty-six, sorted into six categories so the longer list stays quick to browse. Dates started following the watch's language, and lower-memory watches got faster, steadier settings. - **Latest release** — Trends got deeper: Body Battery split into daily low and high, overviews for 90, 30 and 14 days, separate 90- and 30-day badges on every chart, and green/red coloring for the direction of each change. ## Shaped by feedback Dotpace's roadmap runs on user requests, not a fixed plan. The Trends page exists because people asked for a way to see VO₂max and Stress history without opening an app; the metric list, the two layouts, the palette depth all trace back to the same kind of ask. Whatever Connect IQ's SDK allows for a requested feature, we build it — this release includes everything the platform currently permits for the requests we'd had. ## Your data stays on your watch Dotpace only reads what it needs to draw the face and its Trends charts: the time and date, the stats you choose to show, current weather, your watch's last known location for sunrise and sunset, and your profile only when Active Calories or VO₂max is shown. No accounts, no analytics, no network requests — nothing is collected, stored off-device, or sent anywhere, including to Runima. There's no account to link and no sync between the two. ## Get it Dotpace is available now, free, on the Connect IQ Store — search "Dotpace" from the Connect IQ app on your phone or at [apps.garmin.com](https://apps.garmin.com/apps/fe425d96-8e54-4e6d-8fbd-e5985870ed90). --- *Garmin®, Connect IQ™, and the Garmin logo are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries, registered in the USA and other countries, and are used here only to describe compatibility. Dotpace is a third-party application built with the Connect IQ SDK; Runima and Dotpace are not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Garmin.* ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](https://runima.fit/sitemap.md) for all pages.