Introducing Almost Five, a New-ish Pebble Watchface

harlan.harris@gmail.com (Harlan Harris) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You might remember the old Pebble smartwatch -- a minimalist e-ink watch that was popular among a certain set ten or so years ago. Well, it's back -- the original creator is manufacturing new hardware, and the software has been open-sourced. I wasn't on the bandwagon when they were originally popular, but I picked up the old/new Pebble 2 Duo recently and have been enjoying it.

Recently I decided to start building apps for it. I have a handy app for putting my grocery list on my wrist, but it's based on a reverse engineered API, which the grocery list company doesn't support, so I can't publish it. What I can publish though is an open-source watch face that I've been hacking on. Based on a couple of iterations of previous work by others (PebbleTextWatch and Fuzzy-Text-Watch-Plus), both last touched in 2016, and with the assistence of an AI agent, I've now released Almost Five!

Watchface on Harlan D. Harris

Introducing Almost Five, a New-ish Pebble Watchface