See your whole day
The day ring puts the last 24 hours of stress, Body Battery or heart rate around the bezel, with your normal day traced over it and the forecast for the rest of today.
Garmin Connect IQ watch face · 67 watches
Baseline
Your day vs your normal.
Numbers without context are just numbers. Baseline learns your typical day and shows, on every metric, how today compares: a 24-hour day ring of your body, three six-hour sparklines and goal bars that know where your normal day would be by now.
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What it is
A data face that knows what’s normal for you
Most data faces pile on numbers. Baseline adds the one thing they leave out: your own normal. It learns your typical day as it runs, then colours every metric by how today compares.
Spot the change
Three six-hour charts with the value now and how far it is from your normal for this time of day.
Stay on pace
Goal bars with a tick where your normal day would be by now. Behind the tick at 3 pm? Take the stairs.
- Neon
- Synthwave
- Aurora
- Ember
- Glacier
- Acid
Why it matters
A number only means something next to your normal
A resting heart rate of 54 is great for one person and a warning for another. Stress of 40 at 10 am may be your normal Monday. Baseline answers the question every data nerd asks: is this normal for me?
vs you
Body Battery and stress are compared with your own typical value for this time of day, learned from the days the face has seen.
3 charts
Most data faces show one chart at most. Baseline shows three six-hour sparklines and a 24-hour ring at once.
by now
Goals are daily, your day isn’t over. The tick on each bar shows where your normal day would be at this hour.
5%
A real always-on view for AMOLED: the whole day ring as dots, within Garmin’s burn-in rules, instead of just the time.
Features
Everything on the face
Big digits, one colour code across the face, and every metric a touch away from its Garmin widget.
The day ring
- 24 hours around the bezel: midnight at the bottom, noon at the top.
- Every 15 minutes you’ve lived is a bar of stress, Body Battery or heart rate, coloured from calm to strain.
- A light contour traces your normal day, so a tense morning stands out.
- The rest of today shows the hourly forecast: temperature line and rain-chance bars.
Spark tiles
- Three six-hour charts: heart rate, Body Battery, stress, pressure, Pulse Ox or altitude.
- The value now, big, over its own chart.
- Top right: today against your normal for this time of day, in green or red.
Goal bars
- Steps, intensity minutes, sleep score, recovery, floors, calories, distance, battery, resting HR, VO2 max.
- The white tick shows where your normal day would be by now.
- Ahead of the tick means you’re ahead of yourself.
Made for AMOLED
- A designed always-on view: the day ring as dots, the time and three numbers.
- About 5% of pixels lit, shifted every minute, rows alternating: kind to the screen.
- Crisp Roboto Condensed type, sized for each watch.
Yours to set up
- Six themes that recolour everything.
- Four presets: All-rounder, Runner, Recovery, Outdoor.
- Settings on the watch or in the Connect IQ app; seconds when you want them.
- Touch and hold any metric to open its Garmin widget.
Private by design
- No internet permission, no phone app, no account.
- Your normal is learned and kept on your watch.
How to read it
One glance, four layers
From the outside in
- Coloured bars the day so far, one per 15 minutes, calm (cool) to strain (hot)
- Light contour your normal day; bars above it mean more than usual
- Gold arc sunrise to sunset; the white needle is now
- Dots and line after now: the hourly temperature and rain chance
Below the time: three tiles (label and “vs normal” on top, value over a six-hour chart, dotted line for your normal) and four bars (fill to goal, white tick for your normal by now).
Screenshots
Six themes, four presets
Neon, the stress ring: calm night, a busy morning. 
Synthwave with the Body Battery ring and the Runner preset. 
Aurora with the heart-rate ring and the Recovery preset. 
Ember with the Outdoor preset: pressure, altitude, floors. 
Glacier. 
Acid. 
Always-on: the day ring as dots, about 5% of pixels lit. 
The same face on a 260 px MIP fenix 7.
Setup
Set up in four steps
Install
Get Baseline (or Baseline Lite) from the Connect IQ Store app on your phone and send it to your watch.
Make it your face
On the watch, hold the button or screen on the watch face, choose Watch Face, scroll to Baseline and select it. Menu names vary a little by watch.
Pick a preset
Baseline: in the watch face’s Customize menu, or in Connect IQ on your phone (Baseline › Settings), apply All-rounder, Runner, Recovery or Outdoor, then a theme.
Let it learn
Wear it. After a day the contour and the “vs normal” numbers appear; after a week they settle. Bars use Garmin’s own history from the start.
Tip. Keep Baseline as your face while you get used to it: it learns only while it’s the active face, and fills gaps from Garmin’s sensor history when you come back.
Every setting, the presets and how each number is worked out are in the guide.
Baseline or Lite
Try it free, upgrade for the colours
| Baseline Lite | Baseline | |
|---|---|---|
| Day ring with your normal and the forecast | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spark tiles and goal bars with the normal tick | ✓ | ✓ |
| AMOLED always-on view | ✓ | ✓ |
| Colour themes | Neon | 6 |
| Ring metric | Stress | Stress, Body Battery or heart rate |
| Tiles and bars | Default layout | Any of 6 tiles and 10 bars |
| Presets | – | All-rounder, Runner, Recovery, Outdoor |
| Settings on the watch and in the app | – | ✓ |
| Seconds when awake | – | ✓ |
| Price | Free | $1.99 once |
Devices
67 Garmin watches
Connect IQ 4.2 or later. The Connect IQ Store page lists every supported model.
Forerunner
165, 165 Music, 170, 170 Music, 255, 255 Music, 255S, 255S Music, 265, 265S, 570 (42 and 47 mm), 70, 955, 965, 970.
fenix, epix, Enduro
fenix 7, 7S, 7X and their Pro and Solar editions, fenix 8 (all sizes, AMOLED and Solar, Pro), fenix 9 and 9 Pro, fenix E, epix (Gen 2), epix Pro (42, 47, 51 mm), Enduro 3 and 4.
Venu, vivoactive, Instinct
Venu 3, 3S, Venu 4 (41 and 45 mm), Venu X1, vivoactive 5 and 6, Instinct 3 AMOLED (45 and 50 mm), Instinct Crossover AMOLED.
MARQ, D2, Descent, Approach
MARQ (Gen 2), MARQ Aviator, MARQ (Gen 3), D2 Mach 1 and 2 (and Pro), Descent G2 and Mk3, Approach S50, S70 and S72.
Privacy
Your normal stays on your wrist
No internet
Baseline has no internet permission, no account and no server. It can’t send anything anywhere.
On the watch
Today’s 15-minute values, your learned normal and the last seven sleep scores are kept on the watch, nowhere else.
Garmin’s data
It reads what Garmin offers watch faces: sensor history, activity totals, your profile, complications and weather. Privacy policy.
FAQ
Questions
What's the difference between Baseline and Baseline Lite?
Lite is free and shows the same face in the Neon theme with the default layout: the stress ring; HR, Body Battery and pressure tiles; steps, intensity, sleep and recovery bars; and the always-on mode. Baseline ($1.99) adds the six themes, the choice of ring metric, every tile and bar option, the four presets, seconds and settings on the watch itself.
Why is there no contour on the ring yet?
Baseline learns your normal as it runs. The light contour (your typical day) and the “vs normal” numbers fill in after the face has seen a day, and get steadier over the first week. Until then the tiles show the trend per hour instead.
Can it show HRV status or Training Readiness?
No. Garmin doesn't let watch faces read them. Baseline shows every relevant metric Garmin does make available, including the sleep score on watches with Connect IQ 6.0.2 or later.
Will it drain my battery?
Baseline does its heavy work once every few minutes and draws simple shapes, with no network and no background process. The always-on mode lights about 5% of the screen.
Why are some bars empty?
A bar needs Garmin data and, for its tick, a few days of history. Sleep score needs Connect IQ 6.0.2+; floors need a barometric altimeter; VO2 max needs a recorded run or ride.
Can I open the Garmin widget for a metric?
Yes, on touch watches: touch and hold a tile, a bar, the weather or the ring to open the matching Garmin widget.
Does it send my data anywhere?
No. Baseline has no internet permission, no account and no server. Everything it learns stays on your watch.
What does it cost?
Baseline is $1.99 once; Baseline Lite is free. Garmin's Connect IQ Store handles payment and refunds.