14 Best Free Apple Watch Faces

Like iOS devices, you can change the Apple Watch home screen in a variety of ways. Here are some of the most impressive watch faces on Apple Watch

On Apple Watch, the watch face is the thing you interact with the most on the device. In addition to its primary function of telling the time, the watch face also lets you see other data and even open an app directly.

Like iOS devices, you can change the home screen of your Apple Watch in a variety of ways. Here are some of the most impressive watch faces on your Apple Watch.

How to change the watch face on Apple Watch

There are two ways to add or change the wallpaper on your Apple Watch. You can do it directly on the device or using the Watch app on your iPhone. In the Watch app, go to Face Gallery. If you're using your Apple Watch, press firmly on the screen, turn the Digital Crown to New, and a plus sign (+) will appear.

For detailed instructions, see: How to change Apple Watch wallpaper

14 Best Free Apple Watch Faces

1. Mickey Mouse

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The Mickey Mouse watch face is perfect for Disney fans, with a choice of Mickey or Minnie replacing the analog hands. It doesn't have a lot of customization, but there are a few color options and you can set up to three complications. The characters are animated, so they'll tap their feet and do other fun little things to pass the time. You can tap the screen with two fingers to hear the current time, and it even has Mickey or Minnie's voice delivered for added fun.

2. Snoopy

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If you prefer Peanuts to Disney, this watch face brings some lighthearted fun to your wrist. It includes a few customization options for style, including a clean, blank face, a pill face, and a few different arrangements of Roman numerals, but the real stars of the show are Snoopy and his friend Woodstock.

Every time you look at this fun watch face, you'll see Snoopy and Woodstock doing different antics, often interacting with the watch hands. Snoopy's animations change based on external data, like the current weather or if you're exercising, but the animations often change even when you're not doing anything. One problem with this watch face is that it's a bit too simple, with no option to add any complications.

 

3. GMT

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The GMT dial is great for travelers because it displays the time in two different time zones in an innovative way. The inner numbers represent the local time zone, with traditional analog hands indicating the hour. The outer ring shows the time in a 24-hour format, and you can set it to another time zone. However, the complication only displays the date in your local time zone, so you still have to do some mental math to determine if the date changes in another time zone. In addition to the complication, this watch face allows you to set up to four additional complications that are fully customizable.

4. Nike Digital

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You can use any Apple Watch face for working out, but the Nike Digital watch face is a minimalist option that puts the most important information front and center. It includes three complications, enough for your fitness-related needs without being too complicated.

This watch face is particularly good for Nike Run Club app users, as tapping the Nike logo automatically launches the app. However, it's still a good option for general fitness, with an easy-to-read digital watch and easy access to a number of exercise-related complications.

 

In addition to this watch face, you can also choose from a number of other great Nike watch faces, including Nike Analog, Nike Bounce, Nike Compact, and Nike Hybrid. The sleek, clean design of the Nike Digital option is a favorite for most people, but check out Nike Hybrid if you want to easily switch between a digital and analog watch face.

5. Chronograph Pro

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The Chronograph Pro offers all the benefits of a classic analog stopwatch with the convenience of up to four custom complications. The stopwatch feature is easy to spot just by looking at this watch face, but it's a little tricky to use at first. Since the Apple Watch doesn't have a dedicated stopwatch button, you have to tap the watch face to access the timer. When the timer is active, you can record in 60, 30, 6, and 3-second intervals, but you have to select the interval in the watch face settings.

6. Metropolitan

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This classic watch face design has clean lines and a streamlined layout. The design is very minimalistic but offers four customizable functions in the corners. The watch face and the dial are color-customizable, so you can easily match this watch face to your outfit no matter the day. It straddles the line between utility and aesthetics with just the right amount of information without being too complicated, making it suitable for everyday use in settings that call for formal elegance. You may want to look to a slightly more minimalist option, like the California watch face, for more formal settings, but this option will work in a pinch.

7. X-Large

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The X-Large watch face is great if you're looking for something with big, bold numbers that are easy to see at a glance. It's a very simple watch face with not much else, but you can choose to display just the time and a single complication.

If you choose to display the complication as Activity, it's also large and easy to see, which fits the theme of this watch face. It would be nice to have more customization options for people who prefer a few small complications instead of one big one, but there are other watch faces if that's what you're looking for.

8. California

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The California watch face offers the classic appeal of a traditional watch face that pairs well with formal wear, with some great customization options if you want. It includes two watch face options, each offering a different set of complications. The round watch face allows you to place four complications in the corners and a fifth in the middle, which is great for utility but makes the face look a bit busy. The full-screen watch face offers a cleaner, more classic look but only allows you to use two complications.

Another great feature of this watch face is that you can switch up the symbols, with seven options available. The pill option gives a clean, classic look, but you can also choose from Roman numerals, a California look that combines Roman numerals with Arabic numbers and symbols, all Arabic numerals, Indian Arabic, Devanagari, and Chinese.

9. Solar Dial

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The Solar Dial has a complex layout that may seem confusing at first, but the design is attractive even if you're not sure what you're looking at. The dial consists of two dials: a 24-hour outer dial and an inner dial with the option of a digital or analog 12-hour display. Additionally, the hour hand on the outer ring represents the sun, glowing brightly during the day and darkening at night.

When you tap the watch face, you'll see the length of day in your location, and whether it's daytime, nighttime, or twilight, with distinctions for civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight. The color of the watch face also changes throughout the day, with shades of color indicating the transition between daytime, twilight, and nighttime on the outer 24-hour dial. The watch also includes four complications for customization.

10. Astronomy

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The Astronomy watch face shows a 3D image of the Earth, the moon, or the entire solar system. It's a beautiful watch face that's great for amateur astronomers because it shows the relative positions of the planets and the current phase of the moon. If you select the Earth option, it updates in real time to show which parts of the planet are in daylight and which are currently in darkness.

This watch face also includes a cool time travel feature where you can tap the watch face and turn the digital crown to fast forward or backward through time to show the planets orbiting the sun, the day-night cycle on Earth, or the phases of the moon. The only downside to this watch face is that it only displays two functions and is limited to text only.

11. Lunar

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The Lunar watch face displays your choice of lunar calendars, including the Chinese calendar, the Hebrew calendar, and the Islamic calendar. Apple Watch used to offer the option to use these calendars, but updating the Apple Watch to watchOS 9 removed that feature. That makes this watch face the best choice if you need quick access to one of these lunar calendars.

This is a gorgeous watch face with four custom complications. However, it can be a bit complicated and hard to tell exactly what you're looking at if you're not familiar with any of the three lunar calendars. This is a must-have watch face if you want to track moon phases or need access to a Chinese lunar, Hebrew, or Islamic calendar, but others will find less utility here.

12. Infograph

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If you need to track information from multiple sources, run multiple timers, or like a lot of customization options, the Infograph watch face is for you. It allows you to customize 8 complications, 5 of which can display text and graphics and 3 circular complications that can only display graphics. It even has the ability to display multiple timers at once. It's a little complicated for some people, and it can't display a digital watch face, but the classic sports watch design looks great.

13. Siri

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Apple's Siri-powered watch faces leverage AI to give you the information you're most likely to need at any given moment in the form of information cards that act like Smart Stacks that are always front and center. Siri can choose from cards based on Apple's first-party apps and some compatible third-party watchOS apps.

You can't choose what Siri shows you in the cards, which is a bummer for some users, but Siri does a pretty good job of guessing what you need based on the time of day, your location, your habits, and other data. Two cards will appear on screen at any given time, and you can scroll through more with the digital crown. It also includes two small complications that you can control.

14. Modular

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Modular is one of the most customizable watch faces for the Apple Watch. It has six complications, five of which are fully customizable, in a compact and well-organized format. The sixth complication is a simple date toggle that doesn't offer any additional customization options. It's a great watch face if you want a bunch of information at a glance, but some people may find it a bit distracting.

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