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Shell Time

Your watch as a terminal session.

Coming to Connect IQ Unlock €2.99

Shell Time
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Your wrist is now a terminal session.

Shell Time turns the watch face into a login shell: a blinking prompt, a big monospace

clock, and your stats printed out like command output. Built for developers, sysadmins

and anyone who feels more at home in a terminal than a dashboard.

user@garmin:~$ time

14:12:08

Tue 29 sep 2026

user@garmin:~$ status

hr 68 bpm

steps 8412 [#####--]

batt 82% (11d)

user@garmin:~$ _

Features:

  • Monospace VT323 font, real blinking block cursor (only ticks while the screen is awake)
  • Three configurable status lines with ASCII progress bars
  • Prompt style: user@garmin, root@fenix, or a bare ~
  • Four terminal color themes: Green, Amber, White, Cyan
  • Clean always-on display: dim clock and prompt, no burn-in
  • Runs on round AMOLED, color MIP and 1-bit Instinct (with a live seconds readout

in the subscreen)

Data fields (pick any 3 for the status lines):

heart rate, steps, battery, distance, calories, floors, active minutes, body battery,

stress, altitude, notifications, solar intensity, battery days, temperature, sunrise,

sunset, next sun event, respiration, SpO2, recovery time, pressure, resting HR, VO2max,

sleep score, training status, 5K predictor, calendar, weekly run distance, moon phase,

week number, day of year.

Settings: on the watch (hold MENU, then Watch face, then Customize) or in the Connect IQ app.

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

Code not working? Write to kontakt@dialforge.dev and we fix it or refund you.

Compatible watches

50mm, 51mm, D2 Air X15, D2 Mach 1 Pro, Dual Power, dēzl Edition, Enduro 2, Enduro 3, epix (Gen 2), epix Pro (Gen 2) 42mm, epix Pro (Gen 2) 47mm, epix Pro (Gen 2) 51mm, Forerunner 165, Forerunner 165 Music, Forerunner 245, Forerunner 245 Music, Forerunner 255, Forerunner 255 Music, Forerunner 255s, Forerunner 255s Music, Forerunner 265, Forerunner 265s, Forerunner 55, Forerunner 570 42mm, Forerunner 570 47mm, Forerunner 965, Forerunner 970, fēnix 7, fēnix 7 Pro, fēnix 7 Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi), fēnix 7S, fēnix 7S Pro, fēnix 7X, fēnix 7X Pro, fēnix 7X Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi), fēnix 8 43mm, fēnix 8 47mm, fēnix 8 Pro 47mm, fēnix 8 Solar 47mm, fēnix 8 Solar 51mm, fēnix E, Instinct 2, Instinct 2S, Instinct 2X Solar, Instinct 3 AMOLED 45mm, Instinct 3 AMOLED 50mm, Instinct 3 Solar 45mm, Instinct Crossover, Instinct Crossover AMOLED, Instinct E 40mm, Instinct E 45mm, MicroLED, quatix 7, quatix 7 Pro, quatix 7 Sapphire, quatix 7X Solar, quatix 8 47mm, quatix 8 Pro 47mm, Solar, tactix 7, tactix 7 – AMOLED Edition, tactix 8 47mm, tactix 8 Solar 51mm, 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 4, vívoactive 4S, vívoactive 5, vívoactive 6

Unlock

€2.99

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

  1. Install the face from the Connect IQ store. It is free for 7 days.
  2. Find your 10-digit UID: Connect IQ app on the phone > My Device > Watch faces > Shell Time > Settings (first field).
  3. Enter UID and e-mail, pay with PayPal (cards work without a PayPal account). The code appears here at once.
  4. Type the code into the same settings page, field "Unlock code". The watch checks it offline.

Tell us how to make it better

Missing a data field, a colour, a layout? Found a bug on your watch model? Write it here. We read every message and ship improvements in updates.