CipherWear
Your wrist.
Your watch.
A home surface for Wear OS. The face never leaves. Your apps, your notifications and your cards arrive over it as frosted glass.
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Gestures
Everything, without leaving home.
Four swipes, four panels. Each one slides in from the edge it lives on and goes back the same way.
One home, four ways out
The face never leaves. Each panel arrives over it as frosted glass and goes back the way it came.
The face is still there.
Panels frost the watch face rather than replacing it, so you can see exactly where you are and exactly what you are on top of.
Apps
Every app, one thumb away.
A grid that fits a circle.
Bubbles shrink toward the bezel, so nothing is stranded in a corner a round screen does not have. Turn the crown to resize them. Hold and drag to put them where you want.
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It arrives, it does not replace.
Pull up and the apps rise through the glass while the time stays readable behind them. Let go and they drop back where they came from.
Panels
Made for a round screen.
Cards shrink and fade as they approach the rim, because a circle has no room for a full width card up there.
Parcel
Left with your neighbour at number 4
Standup
Moved to ten, Ravi is presenting
Notifications
Swipe left. Nothing is shown that cannot be filled, so you never get an empty list pretending to be a feature.
Quick settings
Swipe down. Every tile is checked against your watch before it is offered, so none of them open nothing.
Battery
Still by design.
No second hand, no idle animation, nothing spinning for information nobody asked for. True black on an OLED panel costs nothing to draw, so that is the ground everywhere.
Privacy
Your wrist is Your wrist.
No location permission. Nothing scans, nothing tracks, nothing reports. The one permission it asks for is the one that puts your notifications on your watch.
What CipherWear asks for
permission, and only
to show your notifications
- Location
- Not requested
- Analytics
- None
- Account
- None
- Network scanning
- Never
The details
What it runs on.
- Works on
- Wear OS watches
- Android
- 9 and later, API 28 to 34
- Screen
- Round, built against Wear OS 5
- Version
- 0.1.0, early access
- Licence
- CipherOS License 2.0
Coming to your wrist.
The first build is nearly there. The install guide is already written for when it lands.