Comment by msyea

I'm a solo dev working on a suite of Garmin apps in order to make the sportswatch into a fully flung smartwatch, with the intent of enabling you to reduce screentime (mobile) but still maintain "essential functionality" and live in the modern world. The ecosystem is offline and privacy first - no cloud/servers.

The watches are chronically underpowered (great for battery life) and need a phone for internet anyway (inbuilt Sat/LTE is not available to devs) - so I've offloaded most of the heavy work to an Android (for now) companion app.

The key features:

- Use the phone mic (headphones or built-in) to dictate to the watch (on-board transcription) - the built-in keyboards are tough to use

- Reply to android notifications with voice (ie. WhatsApp/SMS)

- No extra costs for AI - you have a flagship mobile - all AI inference is on-device

- No internet access for watch or phone app - privacy first, local.

The apps:

- [Untether Comms](https://apps.garmin.com/apps/ac3c70e8-d631-49b9-a6f3-4335dc9...) - Reply to notifications with voice

- [Untether Notes](https://apps.garmin.com/apps/3984f15b-0924-428a-895e-c4c97a2...) - Voice notes automatically transcribed onto the watch

- Untether AI (coming soon) - Chat with Gemini Nano (or others) about your health metrics or anything without your phone

- [Companion Android App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=watch.untether...)

It is very much still in Beta and might be pretty unstable!