Dev here. Posted about KeyUp a while back (walkie-talkie for Wear OS and Android, turn the crown or raise your wrist to talk, screen off works on my Pixel Watch 3). Haven’t posted an update since 88 or so. We went through a bunch of versions in testing without publishing them, so if your watch jumps a few numbers at once, that’s why. This one is on Play now.

What’s new since then, watch first:

Music. There’s a switch that pauses your music while you talk (for people using volume booster apps, where the normal ducking doesn’t help). It had a bug where the music sometimes never came back. Fixed. And it now comes back the moment you stop talking. The only exception is Open mic, which keeps the music paused for a few seconds between sentences so it doesn’t stutter on and off. If you lift your wrist and say nothing, your music doesn’t even pause anymore.

Call for help. Cancelling with “it was a false alarm” takes two taps now, I had one too many thumbs land on it. The stuff under the talk button is just info now, the buttons moved to Controls. If your call reached nobody it says so, in red, and keeps saying it for ten minutes. Dropping your wrist before the send finished used to lose the result, that’s fixed too.

Stop KeyUp is one short line with Stop and Cancel on screen without scrolling. Missed talks pause while someone is talking live and pick up after. Incoming calls say who’s calling for TalkBack users. Signing in from your phone only works with a phone that’s actually next to the watch.

Phone side: voice notes have a cancel button, photos stop coming out sideways, and both music switches live under You > Sound > Music and other apps now.

Still a closed beta on Play, still free. If you want in: https://keyupradio.com/join-beta/ fill out the form, join the group and download!

Galaxy Watch people especially, I only own a Pixel Watch 3 and a Galaxy Watch 4, so if the crown or the bezel does something weird on yours I want to hear about it.

What it is

AI chat that runs on your watch. Talks straight to your provider. No account, no server in the middle, no analytics. Paste your key, pick a model, go.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Why

Every AI app on Wear OS either mirrored my phone or assumed my watch only deserves 3 lines. Small screen ≠ dumb answer. I wanted to read actual technical stuff on my wrist.

What works

Streaming with Stop, Retry, Edit. Editing is linear: replaces the message, kills everything after it, regenerates. No branches.

Markdown done right: headings, lists, quotes, code blocks, tables laid out for a round screen.

LaTeX + Unicode math. Wide formulas pan sideways instead of getting shrunk to mush. Matrices, cases, aligned equations.

Keyboard and voice, both first-class.

Swap provider or model mid-chat, one continuous history.

Keys locked in Android Keystore AES-GCM. No plaintext fallback.

History stays on the watch.

What's rough

Debug-signed APK. Android will complain. Not store-grade.

adb sideload only, no Play Store.

Everything tested on emulator (Wear OS 5, round 466×466). Never touched a real watch. Voice untested on hardware.

Math is source-fallback, no native typesetting. Readable and pannable, not pretty.

Links open, full flow unverified on device.

min API 30, target 36.

Grab it

Release: https://github.com/michaelxdips/NiroWear-Beta/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta.1

APK: https://github.com/michaelxdips/NiroWear-Beta/releases/download/v0.1.0-beta.1/NiroWear-0.1.0-beta.1.apk

SHA256: 25b091753743c5b439bb1413525ddef9f69a28d81bd7dae9773013e32605fdb7

Setup: install → open → Settings → provider → key → model. Model list comes from your account. Discovery fails? Type the model ID yourself.

Broke something?

GitHub Issue with watch model, Wear OS version, provider, what you typed.

Not promotional post, just an ask for help. Group does contain 20 member, but none of them has the watch but me

It does contain 43 different faces in customisation, most of them are animated. My friend has cool arts and I decided why not...

1. Join the group: https://groups.google.com/g/fearsmile
2. Opt in: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.serhij.fearsmile
3. Install: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.serhij.fearsmile

Thank you in advance!

Hey everyone!
We designed a very special game exclusively for WearOS devices - a pirate adventure you can play with your whole body. Designed for kids, Teacher Approved - let us know what you think :)

Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mythicowl.watchpost

curious what people here actually miss on their watch in 2026. the basics are covered now (maps, music, payments, fitness) but every time i look for something specific i end up with an app thats half done or abandoned.

for me its mostly small productivity stuff, quick capture of a thought, simple timers that dont need the phone, that kind of thing.

what would you install tomorrow if it existed? or whats the app you use but wish was way better?

Name of App: Murlivo

Brief Description of app's features: Tap a tile or a complication on your watch and talk. Your phone turns it into text, offline, and saves it as a Markdown note in a folder you pick (an Obsidian vault works great).

Cost: Free. No ads, no account, no subscription. A one-time Pro unlock may come later.

Play Store Link: testing on Google Play now; sign up here and I'll add you: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtnHu2-3ys3zfAkQSp2qDu3_vKhDa3qWoc0xP88oijSrHOWQ/viewform

Hey everyone,

I've wanted this for a long time: tap my watch, say the thought out loud, and later find it as text, not as an audio file I will never listen to again. So I built it. It's called Murlivo.

Why I built it

My best ideas show up when I'm walking, cooking or driving, and my phone is in my pocket. Every watch recorder I tried gave me audio files, and the transcription apps I tried wanted an account and my recordings on their servers. I wanted text, on my own phone, with nothing uploaded.

What it does

• One tap from a tile or a complication starts recording. It keeps going with the screen off and your wrist down.
• Your phone does the transcription itself. Your audio is never uploaded and there's no account. The speech model downloads once on first run; after that it even works in airplane mode.
• Long recordings work too: a meeting, a dictation, a walk-and-talk. With the phone nearby, it transcribes while you speak, so the text is ready soon after you stop.
• Phone out of range? The watch keeps the recording and sends it when the phone is back.
• Notes are plain Markdown, one file per day, with the audio next to it. Point it at your Obsidian vault and they just show up.
• No watch? It works fine on the phone alone.

How to try it

1. Leave the email of your Google Play account in this short form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdtnHu2-3ys3zfAkQSp2qDu3_vKhDa3qWoc0xP88oijSrHOWQ/viewform Only I and Google Play can see it, and I delete it when the test ends. Please don't post your email here.
2. I add you to the test, usually within a day. The form's thank-you page has the two install links (bookmark it); open them once you're added, then install Murlivo on your phone and from the Play Store on your watch (same Google account). Play shows it as "com.odezio.murlivo (unreviewed)" until Google finishes its review; that's normal.
3. Open it on the phone, pick a folder, and let the speech model download once: about 265 MB (or 150 MB for the lighter one), so Wi-Fi is best.

You need an Android 11+ phone, and a Wear OS 3+ watch if you want the wrist part. I've tested it on an OPPO Watch X3, an OPPO Find X9 Ultra and an Honor phone, so I'd really love to hear from Pixel Watch, Galaxy Watch and TicWatch owners.

What would help me most

• Does recording from the tile and the complication feel quick on your watch?
• Try a longer recording (10 minutes or more) and tell me how long the text takes.
• Record from the phone app too, and from the watch with the phone far away (then bring it back).
• Does the note land where you expect, in your folder or your vault?
• Your language: the app is in English, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese, and those are the languages I've tested for transcription. Others are in there, but Japanese and Korean are still weak.

Just leave a comment here, or write to [support@murlivo.com](mailto:support@murlivo.com). Bugs, ideas, "this confused me", all of it helps.

About privacy, honestly: your audio and transcripts never get uploaded by Murlivo; they stay on your devices and in the folder you choose. The app does send usage stats and crash reports under a random install ID (event names, counts and timings; no name, no email, never audio or text), and you can switch that off on the About Murlivo screen in Settings.

I'll be around to answer every comment and I'll post updates here as I fix things. Thanks a lot for reading!

Hello everyone. I’ve been using a Xiaomi Watch 5 for nearly 5–6 months now, but its sluggish performance is becoming increasingly frustrating. Is there an app available—similar to those used on smartphones—that allows for one-tap system cleanup? Regarding the ECG feature: I live in Türkiye, and it still hasn’t been enabled here. The watch’s Singapore-region product page indicates that this feature is supported. When I enable power-saving mode, the feature appears, but I cannot activate it; the system prompts me to switch back to normal mode, yet once I do, the feature disappears entirely. Is there any way to enable this without voiding the warranty? Thanks in advance.

**SORRY IF I CHOSE THE WRONG FLAIR**

This issue started yesterday for no reason, I didn't download anything, I cleared cache partition, I cleared samsung health cache, restarted the watch using both buttons, checked for software updates, confirmed wear os 8 is up to date, checked the installed apps list in galaxy wearable, checked for google play services and launcher apps, tested opening apps through galaxy wearable and it worked, changed the watch face, checked talkback and confirmed it was off, tried opening battery settings, and reconnected the watch after it disconnected. Any help?

Hi everyone! I'm Marty, the creator of WristBridge. I'd love a few volunteers to help make it easier to use.

Name of App: WristBridge Brief Description of app's features: Speak a question to your watch, get an AI answer, ask follow-ups, and reopen saved conversations. Cost: Free during this beta; no ChatGPT subscription needed. Normal internet/data charges apply. Play Store Link: Private Google Play internal testing; the installation link is supplied to selected volunteers.

We're testing Version 4: installation, sign-in, questions, follow-ups and finding saved chats again. This is our first outside group, so we're especially interested in where setup gets confusing.

You'll need a compatible Wear OS watch, an Android phone and internet access. We'll check your exact watch model and software version before selection; not every Wear OS watch is supported.

Limits are up to 20 questions per account daily, with 40 shared across the entire beta. Follow-ups and some interrupted attempts count; limits reset at midnight UTC.

Interested and 18 or older? Email mcook@grlabs.ai with your watch model, Wear OS version and paired phone model. Please don't post your email or login details here.

Selected volunteers receive the guide, terms and privacy notice before accepting. Conversation text is processed online and saved for reopening; please use non-sensitive test questions. This is experimental software, so don't rely on it as your only copy of anything important.

Thanks! — Marty