Smartwatch software
Watch faces, utilities, and games designed to work directly on your wrist.
Independent developer
Independent apps, games & smartwatch software.
Sneaky Padre is an independent developer creating small, distinctive software — starting with watch faces, apps, and games for Garmin smartwatches.
Useful things. Fun things. Occasionally both.
First Garmin watch face
Warm Boot Terminal
Sneaky Padre is starting with Garmin watch faces that treat the tiny screen like a place for personality, not just data. More smartwatch projects are still on the bench.
Available on Garmin Connect IQ
Designed for people who want their watch to feel more like a tiny old computer than a generic digital face. Warm Boot Terminal keeps the time large and readable while wrapping live watch data in a playful diagnostic readout.
- Large central time display
- Live diagnostic-style data
- Custom CRT shell artwork
- Phosphor wake animation
- Touch and hold to replay the warm boot
- Always-on standby display
Now available for select round AMOLED Garmin watches, including Venu, Forerunner, fēnix, epix, tactix, quatix, D2, Approach, and Descent models.
Price: $2.99
About
What is Sneaky Padre?
A small independent software label for projects that are useful, entertaining, unusual — or some combination of the three. Right now, development is focused primarily on Garmin smartwatch software, with additional apps and games planned for other platforms over time.
Apps
Focused software built around a particular idea, problem, or experience.
Games
Small independent games ranging from quick experiments to larger projects.
Experiments
Ideas that are worth building even when we are not quite sure what they are going to become yet.
Why Sneaky Padre?
Not every piece of software needs to become a platform.
No subscription, no ecosystem, no life-changing productivity solution.
- Sometimes an idea is simply useful.
- Sometimes it is fun.
- Sometimes it is weird enough that somebody ought to make it.
That’s generally where Sneaky Padre comes in.
What’s next
More is being built.
Sneaky Padre is still new, and most projects are currently in development. As projects become ready to release, you’ll find downloads, supported devices, pricing, screenshots, and other details here.