Bangle.js Gadgetbridge

Espruino

About this app

Install this app to receive notifications, messages and call notifications from your Android phone on your Bangle.js smart watch.

* Receive notifications, text messages, and call notifications on Bangle.js
* Choose to accept/decline calls, or even answer received text messages
* Bangle.js apps can access the internet via your phone (disabled by default)
* Bangle.js apps can send Android Intents and can be controlled by Intents sent by apps like Tasker (disabled by default)
* Install and remove Bangle.js apps direct from Gadgetbridge
* 'Find My Phone' and 'Find My Watch' capability
* Receive, store and graph fitness (heart rate, steps) data (never leaves your phone)

This app is based on the Open Source Gadgetbridge app (with permission), but provides other internet-dependent features such as the Bangle.js app store as well as internet access for installed apps.

In order to provide the features listed above (like displaying notifications) this app requires access to Notifications and 'Do Not Disturb' state, and will prompt you for access when it is first run. For more information about our handling of personal data, please see https://www.espruino.com/Privacy

Ratings and reviews

I cannot be like some people who don't understand anything about the app and rate it low, but instead I have done it very properly, connected it and loved many parts of it, but it has a single problem that makes it lose 2 stars for me: my device (mi band 4, if that is important) does not stay connected all the time, but it only connects whenever I force it to, and then disconnects a bit later. This is not okay in the slightest because I need it to send me my notifications and media control.

Handy for seeing Bangle info on your phone or messages from phone when it's easier to glance at your watch. Connection between the two can be fritzy: news of a text, say, can be useful, but not altogether reliable; never tells me about phone calls. Odd that the activity information only counts (steps) you take while connected to the watch. The watch has a daily tally but the app ignores it. Choice of more watch info on the phone would be good. I'd like internal temp as well as battery level.

Very difficult to navigate and doesn't appear to work at all. I am using an Android phone and it cannot pair with any smartwatch even though I am using the latest version. I can't even get the watch to display the correct time and date, let alone explore any of its features. Extremely poorly designed app with almost no functionality.

What’s new

BLE: Improved connection and reconnection
Fixed RemoteServiceException errors that occurred in 0.86.1a