Sweet Hearts Watch Face

Review by eFreeware

Sweet Hearts Watch Face is a paid watch face for Wear OS devices, made by Talex Watch Faces. It sells for $1.49, with no ads and no in-app purchases attached, so the price you see is the price you pay. The main reason to consider it is simple: a soft, animated look that still puts the numbers most people check on a watch within easy reach.

The face has been on Google Play since January 2022 and was updated in October 2026 to a new SDK version, which suggests it is still being kept current rather than left as-is. The install base is modest, over 500 downloads, and the rating sits at 4.5 from 11 ratings, so there is not a large crowd of opinions to lean on either way.

What you get on the dial

At its heart this is a digital watch face. It shows the time in either 12- or 24-hour format and syncs with the clock on your phone, so you are not setting it by hand. One small touch I like: in 12-hour mode there is no leading zero in front of the hour, which keeps the layout cleaner than a lot of digital faces manage.

Around the time you get a set of widgets and shortcuts. The face displays the day of the week, the date and the month, plus battery percentage. It also carries a step counter with a shortcut into SHealth, a heart rate reading with a shortcut to start a measurement, and a shortcut to your schedule. These are the pieces most people actually glance at during a day, which is a sensible set to include.

In Always-On mode the face trims back to the essentials: the digital time, the day, date and month, and battery percentage. That is a reasonable split. The full widget set appears when the watch is active, while the low-power state keeps only the information you would want at a glance.

Themes and the moving effect

There are eight color themes, and switching between them is described as an easy way to pick the one you prefer. Eight is a comfortable number for a face like this: enough to give you a light option for daytime and a darker one for evenings without turning selection into a project. Since the theme is the main way to make the face your own, it carries a fair amount of the personality here.

The other defining feature is the moving effect that gives the face its name. It is described as elegant rather than showy, and the developer says it is battery friendly. That claim matters more on a watch face than almost anywhere else, because an animation that runs constantly can eat into the time between charges. I would treat the battery-friendly wording as the developer's promise and judge it against how the face feels on your own device.

The combination of an animated background with a restrained widget layout is what separates this from a plain digital face. If you like a bit of motion on your wrist but still want the date, steps and battery readable without tapping around, that pairing is the appeal.

Checking it before you buy

One genuinely useful addition is a live preview tool on the developer's website, where you can look at the customizations directly before committing. A preview screen is available, and the preview itself lives at talexwatch.com. For a paid face with a fixed set of themes, being able to see the options first is worth taking advantage of.

The face is built for Wear OS devices, and that is the requirement that matters most. If your watch runs something else, this is not the product for you. It is also a paid download rather than a free one with optional extras, so the decision is made once, up front, with no ads interrupting the dial and nothing else to buy afterward.

The recent change is narrow: an update to a new SDK version. There is no list of new features or redesigns attached to it, so I would read it as maintenance rather than a reason to expect the face to look different from before.

The kind of watch owner this fits

This face is for someone who wants a Wear OS watch to look decorative without becoming a puzzle. The animated effect and the eight themes do the styling work, while the time, date, battery, steps, heart rate and schedule shortcuts cover the practical side. If you check your step count or your battery through the day, those shortcuts save you a trip into the app drawer.

It is also a fair fit for anyone who likes to change the look of their watch with the season or their mood. Eight themes give you room to rotate without buying anything else, and the Always-On arrangement keeps the display readable when your wrist is down. The price is small enough that it reads as a one-off styling purchase rather than an investment you need to justify over months.

Where I would pause is on the size of the audience here. The rating comes from a small number of people, so there is not much collective experience to draw on. That is normal for this category, but it does mean the preview tool is your best way to decide whether the look is right for you.

A gentle face for a Wear OS watch

Sweet Hearts Watch Face does one thing and does it with a clear idea of what a watch face should show. The digital time syncs with your phone, the widgets cover the everyday numbers, and the eight themes plus the animated effect give it a character that plain digital faces lack.

I would recommend it to Wear OS owners who want a soft, animated dial with steps, heart rate, battery and schedule within a tap, and who are happy to pay once for a single design. Check the live preview first and confirm the themes suit your taste, because that look is the whole product. If the animation and the color options are what drew you in, this is a tidy, low-risk pick.

The caveats are modest and worth stating plainly: it is a paid download, it needs a Wear OS device, and the battery-friendly animation is the developer's claim rather than a measured result. For the price of a coffee, that seems like a fair trade for a face you will look at dozens of times a day.

What's new

Updated to new SDK version