Feel The Wear 2 Notifications

LavaRay

About this app

Reimplementation of Feel The Wear for modern Wear OS 3.0 watches and Android phones, with full Material You support.

Weak vibrations on your Wear watch? Do you miss notifications? Feel The Wear 2 allows you to set custom vibrations and sounds for your apps' notifications.

If the app does not vibrate for incoming notifications then disable all battery/background optimizations for our app please.

Watch vibrating a 1-2 seconds before the notification shows-up on the watch is normal, the app is fast :)

* we support only modern Android phone versions and Wear OS 3 (experimental support down to Wear OS 2.2)
* pre-defined & custom vibration patterns and sounds
* upload your own sounds
* Hourly Chime
* repeated vibrations
* quiet hours for people who do not charge every day
* configurable behaviour when watch is charging or in a dock
* configurable behaviour when phone's screen is on
* full Material You support with dynamic colors
* no vibration for ongoing/permanent/progress notifications
* optional vibrations history for investigating phantom vibrations and ignored notifications
* not all the feature from the original Feel The Wear are there yet, but we will add them

App needs a permission to read the phone's notifications and will ask for this on the app's first start. The watch can vibrate even a second before the notification arrives into your watch. This is because the watch will vibrate at the time a notification arrives into your phone and it could take some time for a notification to show-up on the watch.

You also need to install the watch part of the app. Once you can successfully test vibration patterns from the phone app, the watch will vibrate as expected. If not, then disable battery optimizations in the phone's settings for our app and enable vibrations history to check if and why a vibration was ignored.

*App does not make physically stronger vibrations. It is not possible to make the vibrating motor stronger via an app, it depends on the watch's hardware and firmware.*

*NOTICE*:
If you experience double vibrations then set no sound and no vibration in the 3rd party app's settings for its notifications.

This Wear OS app was made for us and released to the public. Enjoy!

Ratings and reviews

I used the original version on an older watch, and considered it ESSENTIAL. Sadly now that I've upgraded to a Pixel Watch 2, I've found that this just doesn't work. Everything is recognized, and the "test pattern" works, but when the actual notification is triggered...it's still just the default sound.

Works great with my pixel watch 1. Unbelievable that even Google don't offer changes to the vibration intensity and amount of vibration on the stock setting is so poor. I found I had to remove the delay in settings to get working. Also the option to silence watch notifications whilst screen is on doesn't seem to take into account always on display and so disables vibration all the time.

After upgrading from the galaxy watch 5 to the pixel watch 2 I really missed the hourly chime function, this app does exactly what it says on the tin. You have full control of your notifications on your watch and you can set different tones or vibration settings for each app. It's very easy to set up and the app developer is very helpful too. My Google pixel watch 2 feels complete now. If I could give 10 stars I would.

What's new

* fix app crash on some watches after reboot
* extend report with data about connected watch
* improvements for the vibrations history database size
* debugging hourly chime not being exact on some Wear OS 4 devices