MD307 Digital watch face

Review by eFreeware

Most watch faces ask you to accept the designer's taste. MD307 Digital takes the opposite approach: it hands you a dense digital layout and then lets you repaint and rewire much of it. There are three complication slots where you choose the data, one shortcut you define yourself, and color controls for the time, date, day, seconds, gauges and background elements. That combination of a busy information display with deep customization is the most distinctive thing about it.

It is a Wear OS watch face from Matteo Dini MD Watch Faces, sold for $2.49 as a one-time purchase. The app has more than 100,000 installs and a 4.4 average across 12,998 ratings, with the current release dated March 2, 2026 and the original release in November 2022. There are no ads and no in-app purchases attached.

This is for people who treat the watch face as a dashboard rather than decoration. If you like seeing steps, battery, heart rate and a couple of data fields you picked yourself the moment you glance at your wrist, and you enjoy tuning colors until the layout looks right to you, this design is built for that. If you want a face you install and never touch again, the amount of choice here may be more than you need.

The customization model, and the Samsung wrinkle

The developer leads with customization, and the mechanism is the standard Wear OS one: touch and hold the screen on the watch, then tap the customize option. From there you can change colors across the time, date, day, seconds, foreground, bars, goal and battery gauges, along with general colors. The time display can be set to 12- or 24-hour format.

The complication slots are where the face earns its keep. Three of them accept whatever data you prefer, and the developer gives weather, time zone, sunset and sunrise, and barometer as examples. The same layout can serve very different purposes depending on what you drop into it.

There is one caveat the developer flags directly, and it concerns Galaxy Watch owners specifically. Complex faces like this one often fail to load in the Samsung Wearable editor, which the developer says is not the face's fault. The suggested workaround is to customize on the watch rather than through the phone until Samsung addresses it. That is worth knowing before you buy.

What sits on the display besides the clock

Beyond the digital time, the face shows the date and a seconds readout, and the layout carries several gauges and readouts. Steps are there with a daily steps goal, so progress toward your target is visible at a glance rather than buried in a fitness app. Battery level has its own gauge and its own color control, which matters if you like the charge indicator to stand out when it drops.

Heart rate is displayed along with interval readings, giving you a current pulse figure plus the interval data the developer pairs with it. A moon phase indicator rounds out the set, which is an unusual inclusion for a digital face and one that suits anyone who tracks lunar cycles for gardening, fishing, photography planning or simple curiosity.

For shortcuts, three are preset: calendar, battery and measure heart rate. A fourth slot is yours to define. That mix means the most common destinations are one tap away while you still get to place one app of your own choosing on the face.

Always On Display and how the face behaves at rest

Always On Display is supported, and the developer describes it as a minimal style with changeable colors. That is a sensible pairing with a face this dense.

The color controls extend into Always On Display, so the resting appearance is not fixed.

The recent update addressed color display for hours, minutes, date and seconds, along with the Minimal AOD preview inside the Wearable app on the phone. That is a maintenance release.

What you need before installing

The compatibility line is specific and worth checking first. Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 through 9, the Ultra and Ultra 2, and Pixel Watch models are named as examples. If your watch runs an older Wear OS version, this face is not built for it.

The price is $2.49, paid once. The developer also points to an installation and troubleshooting guide on their site.

The developer also warns that certain features may be missing on certain watches. That is a fair warning for a face that leans on complications and sensor data.

Getting the most out of the layout

The practical advice from the developer is to do your customizing on the watch itself, at least on Samsung hardware, because the phone-side editor struggles with faces of this complexity. Touch and hold the screen, tap customize, and work through the color and complication options there.

Think about the three complication slots before you start assigning them. A slot filled with something you never look at is a slot wasted, and the preset calendar, battery and heart rate shortcuts already cover the most common taps.

The color controls reward a little restraint. Pick two or three accent colors that mean something to you and leave the rest close to neutral, and the density works in your favor instead of against it.

A dense, tunable face for Wear OS 4 watches

MD307 Digital is a fair buy at $2.49 for the right Wear OS owner. It packs a lot onto one screen, gives you real control over what that data is and how it looks, and carries an Always On Display that trims the layout down when the watch is idle.

The audience is fairly clear. You need a Wear OS 4 or later watch, and you should be comfortable customizing on the watch screen rather than through a phone app, particularly on a Galaxy Watch. If you enjoy tuning a face until it matches how you use your watch, this one gives you plenty to work with. If you would rather install something and leave it alone, the sheer number of adjustable elements here will feel like work.

The track record helps the case: more than 100,000 installs, a 4.4 average from nearly 13,000 ratings, and an update in March 2026 that fixed color display issues.

What's new

Fixed color display for hours, minutes, date, seconds, and Minimal AOD preview in the Wearable app on the phone.