Introducing Facer 5.0 and Facer Premium

Ariel Vardi
Facer
Published in
5 min readDec 6, 2018

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We couldn’t be more excited to be releasing Facer 5.0 today, a major update to the largest watch face platform in the world which now counts over 3 million smartwatch users, 70k watch faces, and 20k watch face designers.

Facer 5.0 introduces a number of new improvements to the platform:

  • Facer Premium: the first watch face subscription for smartwatch users enabling seamless access to Facer’s massive database of premium watch faces on all their devices.
  • New Watchmaker Series Partners: we’re excited to be adding 3 new brands to our Watchmaker Series collection, reserved exclusively to partners in the traditional watch industry: Mr Jones Watches, AVI-8, and Daniel Will-Harris.
  • Facer Feed: Facer now automatically curates faces every day based on your favorite designers, brands, and styles. Picking your watch face for the day has never been easier!
  • Full iPhone support: smartwatch users using an iPhone can finally access the full Facer platform and all its features with the latest to our iOS app — at last!
  • Support for new smartwatches: Facer now supports over 50 different smartwatches models, including the latest Fossil Sport, Montblanc Summit 2, Samsung Galaxy Watch, and more.

Without further ado, let’s dive into the details of this huge release!

⭐️ Introducing Facer Premium

We are excited to be introducing Facer Premium, the first watch face subscription service for smartwatches making it easier than ever to make your watch truly yours, every day.

Facer Premium includes:

  • Instant-access to 70k+ watch faces on Facer, including top tier designers and brands. Never pay for a watch face again!
  • Access to all features of every watch face including color customization, interactive widgets, app launchers, and more.
  • Ad-free experience
  • Infinite tokens for the Daily Mix directly on your watch, including all premium faces.
  • Increased “Recent watch box” size for easy access to all your most recently used faces.

Facer Premium is simply the best way to experience Facer and it is available worldwide today.

To celebrate the launch, all users signing up this month will get a free 7-day trial and benefit from the introductory price of $4.99/month (U.S. price). Signing up only takes a minute at https://www.facer.io/premium

💎 New Watchmaker Series Partners

We couldn’t be more excited to be announcing 3 new partners in the growing Watchmaker Series Program, reserved exclusively to partners from the traditional watchmaking industry.

AVI-8: https://avi-8.co.uk/

Mr. Jones Watches: https://mrjoneswatches.com/

Daniel Will-Harris: http://bit.ly/dwh-watches

We feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work with such amazing brands to recreate some of their most iconic designs for the smartwatch world:

Mr Jones’ Last Laugh Tattoo, AVI-8’s Hawker Hunter, and Daniel Will-Harris’ Yin Yang (left to right)

These new Watchmaker Series watch faces will roll out throughout the month of December with a lot more coming soon. As with all Facer faces, these will be compatible with all WearOS and Tizen smartwatches.

Introducing Facer Feed

Get daily recommendations from you favorites designers, brands, and styles

With hundreds of new amazing watch faces published every week on Facer, finding your style for the day can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. To help alleviate this, Facer 5.0 introduces the Facer Feed, an automatically curated collection of watch faces personalized for your own tastes. The more you use Facer, the more accurate this feed becomes. Get started today by creating a Facer account and by following your favorite designers!

📲 Full iPhone support

We updated the iOS version of Facer to support all features of the platform so that Wear OS and Tizen users connected to an iPhone can enjoy the same experience as their Android friends. This includes access to all premium watch faces, watch face feed, watch box, and more!

Facer for iPhone updated to support all features of Facer

The new Facer for iPhone is available today on the Apple App Store.

⌚️ Support for new smartwatches

The Facer platform was updated to support even more smartwatch models and now features 53 different devices to choose from. The new devices include: Fossil Sport, Montblanc Summit 2, Samsung Galaxy Watch, Skagen Falster 2, TicWatch Pro, and more.

TicWatch Pro, Armani Connected, Movado Connect (left to right)

To try out all the new different devices in real-time, just tap on the little watch icon ⌚️on the left side of the watch face in the widget below:

🚀 What’s next? Big news for creators!

Believe it or not, we’re not done for 2018 and have some exciting news coming for Facer Creator users and watch face designers this month. Please make sure to create an account on Facer and follow us at news.facer.io to be notified.

Download Facer for your smartwatch today:

For all general inquiries— contact us at hello@little-labs.com

For partnerships, including the Watchmaker Series — contact us at partnerships@little-labs.com

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