I've been using my old Pebble time with the new pebble app for a while now, and can't seem to find a way to switch from metric to imperial when looking at my step count. it's been awhile since I used the original Pebble app, but the new one seems to be missing features. Any help would be appreciated

Eric, if you're reading this, I love you and I love this watch. I've been rocking a pebble since ~2014 and I have no plans of ever leaving it. The pebble is a feat of engineering and an icon of hacker culture, and I am proud to rock it every day!

With that out of the way, here is just a brief list of minor, minor software things I've noticed in my first week with Pebble Time 2:

• menu lag when scrolling -- this was also on my pebble time, but FPS drops when scrolling down the app menu
• backlight flicker on white screen -- when there is a lot of white on the screen and the backlight is engaged, there is a subtle flicker. Obelisk is a good example of this
• app menu icon scale -- app menu icons look a little blurry on close look compared to the text

hardware has been great and feels good, lightweight, and the heart rate tracking is super neat.

so that's pretty much it. nitpicks.

I just set up my Time 2. When I tap the display, it fails to turn the backlight on. Is there a setting I'm missing?

For anyone who recently got their PT2, is it as good as the old ones and worth the money? On the fence about whether to keep my order or refund it.

I first became a part of the community in 2018 with the Pebble Time. This was right after the official app store and other services were shut down. But Rebble stepped in and demonstrated that our beloved watches could live on with community-driven services. I was amazed by how our community stuck together in those hard times.

I remained an active Pebble user from 2018 until 2022 when my Pebble Time battery died. Then I switched to Garmin (which is about as close as you can get to the classic Pebble screen and experience), but it still wasn’t the same. So, I made a Pebble Time + Pebble Time Steel "Frankenstein" out of a Pebble Time Steel I bought with dead Bluetooth but a good battery. Later on, I found a P2HR on a local marketplace.

At the time, I couldn't even dream about a Pebble Time 2 (which I preordered right away) or even a Pebble Round 2. But, still, it happened, and it made so many people come back and try their old Pebbles on, just to find that they're just as good as they were 3, 5, or 10 years ago!

I created my first app for my local bus transport timetables. Then, I had the idea to create a music playback control app that would show the album art on my Pebble's screen without a companion app. Unfortunately, the SDK doesn't support media control yet, so I took a different approach and created an app that uses the Spotify API. After some pain and a few weeks of testing, I was almost able to get it ready for the first week of the contest, and I rushed to finish it in time for the second week and I actually did it! And that’s how Playback for Spotify was created!

I’m glad so many of you liked my app and supported me in this contest. It’s amazing how the community can come together and try to build creative and useful apps for each other. I’ve personally tried and hearted dozens myself, and they're fantastic. Thank you for your attention. Long live Pebble!

Hey everyone! Just pushed a pretty big update to Poke Evolution and wanted to share what's new.

For those who haven't tried it — Poke Evolution is a Pebble watchface where your Pokémon evolves based on your daily step count. Walk enough steps and watch it evolve throughout the day. At 10 PM it falls asleep and resets at midnight.

There's also a berry system where you can shake your watch to feed your Pokémon bonus steps.

What's new in this update:

- Added 4 new Pokémon lines — Dratini, Turtwig, Beldum, and Gible (yes, Garchomp is in there 👀)

- Eevee evolution can now be set to Random — picks a different evolution every day

- New font options for time, date, and step counter

- New background themes

- Battery indicator and XP bar got a full redesign

- Weather now supports Celsius — toggle it in settings

Still more Pokémon lines and features in the works. Let me know what you think or if you run into any issues! Also yes im adding Pebble Round 2 Support! If you have your Time 2 please post a screenshot of it (i still dont have my PT2) so would love to see what it actually looks like on the watch.

Can't remember how this was in the good old Pebble (before-Rebble) days, but I noticed e.g. my active Watchface just updates automatically. Apps would most likely do the same.

Using Terminal face by u/anthonyfilmsstuff and shared some feedback and I see it auto updates because the feedback was implemented.

Nice work Pebble!

Got a Pebble Classic "for parts". Doesn't turn on unless you have the charger attached, which then it gives the "Battery Full" logo instantly. So I was able to scroll through the menus at this point, but if you remove the charger it dies. Cool, no biggie it's the battery.

Well...I decided I wanted to factory reset it so I could try to pair it with my phone to test before tearing it apart. But now it just stays on the Pebble logo.

Did I brick it, or is it one of those things where I just got ahead of myself now I'll have to do the battery to get any farther?

How is the black coating? Durable? Are scratches showing through?

I ordered a black one but this has always been a slight concern. It is the one reason I have considered switching to the standard stainless steel. How is it?

Totally my fault for misreading the rules, but I only realized today that hearts have been stacking up since day one. Submitted my face on April 19th, which leaves me ~1 day to compete against apps that had a full week.

Is that really how it works, or am I missing something? Not salty, had a blast building mine either way. Just curious - anyone else in the same boat? How are you feeling about the format?

Pebble leaderboard. Two apps are conspicuously at the top.

Hey y'all. I want to talk to you real quick about leaderboard manipulation. Over the past 24 hours, 2 watchfaces and apps have had a sudden and meteoric rise towards the top of the leaderboard with seemingly no reason: Natural Time by Sylvain Biquette and Circula by Dheeraj Uppalapati. I have been tracking the rise of these products along with alex_pavlov, the creator of Playback for Spotify, and we have reason to believe that these two products' meteoric rise is achieved through the use of fake (or botted) likes.

First off, who am I and why should you trust anything I say? I am Evie Finch, the creator of the Royale watchface, which is possibly the actual most viral watchface or app on the leaderboard. Despite uploading my face very late into the competition, I have managed to get into the top 10, and I believe this is partially due to my marketing strategy. I was able to cause this rise through creating some moderately successful posts on both Reddit and Mastodon, so I think I know something about about social media strategy. In fact, what I find incredibly interesting and suspicious about these products is their social media strategy, or lack thereof. So, let's talk about it.

What's the deal with the top 2 apps and faces?

Natural Time is a fun, quirky watchface made by a French Youtuber, Biquette, who has about 8,000 subscribers. He has marketed the watch face in a Youtube Short, whose translated title reads "Can you help me win a contest? #pebble #naturaltime", which features him asking his viewers to create an account and vote for him in the contest while he's walking through the forest. He has also marketed it on his blog with one blog post with 0 comments, and a Telegram post sharing his short, with 6 comments and 10 emoji reactions. This is a pretty fair response, but the click-through rate (how many people click on a link in the description) of a Youtube short is not great, ranging from less than 1% to around 10%, and the conversion rate (how many people actually do the thing you want after clicking through) is also pretty bad. You can see this in his comments, which has about 19 people saying they have hearted his watchface, and one complaining about how they couldn't figure out how to make an account and like the face. Before his video, his watchface was moderately successful on the leaderboard. It was at 8th place on Wednesday, with 66 likes, around Tamagotchi Emulator and Pixel Pastures. After the video, it moved up to first at a rapid pace. This would not be unexpected from a viral video, but there's one notable quality that made me write this post: The increase in votes is strictly linear.

Likes over time for Natural Time. It seems relatively slow until a big jump, and then resumes being relatively slow.

Here is Natural Time's likes over time, which is based on screenshots of the leaderboards that I have collected. When the short is uploaded on Friday 1:06pm UTC, the like count has a sharp, linear increase until it gets to around 9pm UTC, after which it resumes gaining likes at around the rate it did before the video. This is an increase of about 80 likes over 8 hours. From my own experience, when something goes viral naturally, it has a brief period of a higher than average gain in attention (gaining traction), before having a rapid surge in attention (doing numbers), until that rate of increase slowly degrades, and then levels off. This does not look like organic growth. In fact, I would consider an organically viral watchface to be closer to something like Comic Drop by Khaki Lee, which was directly linked by Eric on Twitter and Bluesky, or Royale by me, which had an incredibly successful reddit post.

All of this is trying to make one thing very clear, Natural Time, which has extenuating circumstances that could be argued to justify its virality, likely does not have organic growth.

Anyways, Circula doesn't even have that. Circula has had one reddit post with 6 upvotes and 2 comments and that's all, and yet it has literally the exact same number of likes as Natural Time. It climbed the leaderboard both closer to the end and faster than Natural Time. At least make it look realistic, dude.

Why am I writing this?

There's two reasons for this:

First, the contest has a monetary prize. If people win this, they get actual real money, or something they can convert into actual real money. When real money is involved, cheating is much more likely to happen, which needs to be punished swiftly and harshly, otherwise other people will believe they can do the same thing and get away with it.

Second, I think the community matters. The real top 5 apps are actual members of the community. I have talked to most of them, and have seen them all interact with other developers in the Rebble Discord server. I have even asked some of these people for help when developing my watchface. For example, FouzR (developer of seiko-data) was very active in the Discord thread I posted development logs in, and alex_pavlov (developer of Playback for Spotify) developed telegram bots to track the leaderboards because of this situation, and helped provide data for the graph. On the other hand, Sylvain Biquette and Dheeraj Uppalapati are not community members at all. They're denying the actual developers who actually give back the chance to be respected for their work. Biquette has even said that he doesn't even wear a watch and hasn't heard about Pebble before the competition!

What should be done about this?

I think Core Devices needs to do a couple things: they need to review all of the leaderboards for suspicious activity, and they need to put processes in place to ensure this never happens again. This will guarantee that all the actual winners are things that people actually voted for in both Week 1 and Week 2, and prevent this from happening in any future contests. (Don't forget, this is the Spring 2026 contest. That implies there might be contests in other seasons and in other years.)

I also think the community should get involved and show their support for apps and watchfaces made by real people who are actually involved. I am providing below a short list of some that I know are made by people on the Rebble Discord, and I encourage people who to share their own faces and apps in the comments if they've given back to the community in their own way:

• Playback for Spotify by alex_pavlov
• Pebbal - Miniature Pinball by Stubenhocker
• Skyarc by Chris Lewis
• Bearing by astosia
• seiko-data by FouzR
• Royale by Me
• 3D Coins & Dice by Buildy.Industries
• Kirby's Return to Pebble Land by BoxofDanger
• Pixel Pastures by James Downs
• Pebble Pillage by grump
• Treble by Logan Head
• ...And many more

Thanks for reading. You can find my data on Natural Time on Google Sheets if you wish to review it. I don't have data on Circula because I wasn't tracking it before it was already too late.

Ok so I’m in the middle of moving right now and I cannot for the life of me find my pebble charger. Am I basically SOL until I can find it or get a new one, or is there some other way I can charge it?