this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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Pebble - rePebble
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Why Pebble?
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Always-on e-paper screen (it’s reflective rather than emissive. Sunlight readable. Glanceable. Not distracting to others like a bright wrist)
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Long battery life (one less thing to charge. It’s annoying to need extra cables when traveling)
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Simple and beautiful user experience around a core set of features (telling time, notifications, music control, alarms, weather, calendar, sleep/step tracking)
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Buttons! (to play/pause/skip music on my phone without looking at the screen)
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Hackable (apparently you can’t even write your own watchfaces for Apple Watch? That is wild. There were >16k watchfaces on the Pebble appstore!)
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I don’t want my watch location tracking me but I do want heart rate and step tracking. Pebble is open source so I can audit the privacy of the app and manage my own data without fitbit, garmin, or apple accessing it in the interim.
Also if the company goes under other apps can interface with the watch.