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Brief for Wear OS

What's next, right on your watch face

Brief is a complication that shows the one thing worth knowing right now: your next meeting, the song that's playing, a message you're waiting on, the weather. When nothing needs you, it shows the date.

Get it on Google Play How it works

Free. Needs an Android phone and a Wear OS 4+ watch, like a Pixel Watch or a Galaxy Watch4 or newer.

Now playing · Tap the watch to play or pause.

How it picks

One thing at a time, in the order you choose

Brief runs down your list and shows the first source with something to say. Drag them into any order in the app. Scroll to see each one on the watch.

  1. Now playing

    Track and artist, with a ring that follows the song. Play and pause from your wrist.

    On this page: storm by Night Tapes, a 30-second preview from Apple Music.

  2. Notifications

    Alerts from the apps you pick, and only those. Tap one to open it.

  3. Calendar

    Your next event, with a countdown that updates by itself.

  4. Phone battery

    Your watch tells you when your phone drops below the level you set.

  5. Weather

    Current conditions, plus a heads-up before it rains.

  6. Reminders

    Your own nudges, like “Meds” or “Stand up”, on your schedule. Mark them done from the watch.

  7. Default

    Always last. The date, your own text, your phone's battery level, or nothing at all.

Tile, widgets and more

Everywhere you look

The complication, the tile, the Wear OS 7 widget and the widget on your phone all show the same glance, and they change together.

Tile

One swipe from your watch face, with room for more: where the meeting is, today's high and low, and a button for the glance's own action, like play and pause.

Wear OS widget

On Wear OS 7 the tile becomes a widget: a card in your watch's widget list, small or large, in the colour of what it's showing.

Phone widget

The same glance on your home screen, from a slim row to a two-row card. Its buttons work here too.

Easy on battery

It only messages your watch when the glance changes.

Live countdowns

Countdowns and the date tick on the watch itself, between updates.

Set up on your phone

Your phone reads your calendar, music and notifications, picks what to show, and sends only that to your watch. Drag sources into order and switch off what you don't need.

The Brief phone app. A card at the top shows the watch is connected and synced, with a Sync button. Below, the sources in priority order, each with a drag handle and an on/off switch, and Default pinned last.

Nothing to sign up for

No account, no Brief server, no ads, no analytics. Your calendar, music and notifications only ever go from your phone to your own watch.

Read the privacy policy →

  • No accountNothing to create and nothing to log in to.
  • Phone to watch, directlyOver the link your phone and watch already share, not through a server.
  • Weather is the exceptionA rough location, rounded to about 1 km, goes to Open-Meteo. Or type in a city.

Tap to act

Play or pause, open a notification, or tick off a reminder.

Works with Tasker

Other apps can put their own text on your watch.

Free, no ads

There's a tip jar if you like it. It unlocks nothing.

Quiet when you want

Give a source its own hours, or go quiet during Do Not Disturb.

Questions

Good to know

Something else? Email me at developerdfa@gmail.com.

What do I need?

A watch with Wear OS 4 or newer, like any Pixel Watch or a Galaxy Watch4 or newer, and an Android phone with Android 11 or newer. Not sure about your watch? Its settings show the Wear OS version, under About. Brief doesn't work with iPhone, and the watch app needs the phone app to run.

Which watch faces work?

Any watch face with a complication slot. Brief fits the small circles and rings, but it looks best in a wide slot, where there's room for two lines.

Is it free?

Yes. There's a tip jar in the app if you'd like to say thanks. It doesn't unlock anything.

Can other apps put things on it?

Yes. Turn on Automation in the app's advanced settings, and Tasker (or anything else that can send an intent) can show its own text on your watch.

Something isn't working

Send feedback from the app's settings, or email developerdfa@gmail.com. If you allow it, the app can attach logs from both your phone and your watch. I read every message.

Try it on your watch

Install Brief on your phone first. It walks you through getting the watch app too.

Get it on Google Play