Fossil Smartwatches

Fossil Group, Inc.

About this app

Introducing the new Fossil Smartwatches smartphone app designed to enhance your smartwatch experience. From unique watch faces to notifications with a twist, customize your experience at your fingertips.

Fossil Smartwatches is a companion app which offers a wide range of features related to fitness and connected to your smartphone.
Supported Fossil smartwatches: Gen 6 wearOS and Hybrid smartwatches.
Following are the core features which are essential parts to form up this app:
Pair/ activate all Fossil smartwatches with your smartphone.
Show notifications of incoming calls and messages of your phone on your watches.
Show notification from other applications of your phone on your watches.
Find your smartwatches based on the last location of your device.
Get real-time weather information based on your current location.
Track steps, distance, calories burned and sleep quality.
Connect to voice assistant services.

Ratings and reviews

Watch is great. App is horrendous. When syncing, the step count and other data is sometimes only fraction of what was actually covered. It may later catch up on the next sync, or the next day, or not at all! I can see Google Fit is getting its data so it's not my phone or watch. The menu layout is poor as well; I have a social media link (don't care), an offer to buy stuff (don't need), and THEN I have the various settings I do care about, which one has to swipe to see.

I have used this app for a year now. When I first used it, there were no problems and everything was laid out well. Now it's very messy to look at, too many adverts and it doesn't sync. It'll say it synced bit when you tap to see your sleep or step record for the week it comes up "no record". You then have to manually sync again and it takes 10 minutes to do so. No idea what has happened to the app but change it back.

It doesn't fill me with confidence that they made it look very nice but it isn't stable. That said, it does the job of setting up the watch, eventually... When I open the app and select either Notifications or Stats, it always crashes. If I immediately open it again, it works as expected. That said, the part of the app that shows in the phone's notifications area seems to work separately and appears to work fine. I'm also still running my old Fitbit One side by side with my new Fossil watch and the watch does seem to under-record steps by a wide margin compared to the Fitbit. I've had the Fitbit One for six years and it's been pretty accurate (you can view it recording as you walk).

What’s new

Bug fixes and Performance enhancement