8-Bit Retro Stamina Watch Face

Your hour has a stamina bar.

Stamina turns time into a clean 8-bit arcade HUD. Made by ADHD. Minimal on purpose.

Requires Wear OS 4 or newer. Custom complications are not supported—the layout is intentionally fixed and simple.

  • Time at a glance
  • Motion + CRT controls
  • Local watch data
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8-Bit Retro Stamina branding beside the circular pixel watch face and three red-to-green progress bars.

02 / time you can see

The hour has a shape.

Four horizontal bars show the current four-hour block, while ten-minute cells add detail to the active hour.

Red shows what’s gone. Green shows what remains. At the line between them, a tiny fighter winds up and fires into the time ahead, blasting it away minute by minute.

The exact digital time appears below by default and can be hidden when you want the bars to stand on their own.

03 / minimal on purpose

No dashboard to build.

No complication slots to arrange. Four fixed readouts keep the useful things exactly where you expect them.

TIME
Optional exact digital time in Device, 12-hour or 24-hour format.
1UP
The step count supplied by your watch.
CREDIT
Battery percentage. At 10% or less, it becomes INSERT COIN.
ROUND
The current day of the month.

04 / retro your way

Four simple controls.

Keep the retro character while choosing the time display, movement and texture you want.

Always-on ambient mode stays static, dimmed and CRT-free while respecting your selected time format and digital-clock visibility.

05 / why give time a shape?

Inspired by lived experience. Informed by research.

Stamina began with lived ADHD experience and a simple idea: elapsed and remaining time may feel easier to grasp when both stay visible.

A 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis found measurable group-level differences on time-perception tasks in ADHD. That research does not prove Stamina helps with time blindness, but it helped inspire a design that makes the passing hour visible.

In controlled smartwatch progress-reading tasks, visual displays were read faster and more accurately than percentage text. Linear bars also showed a small efficiency advantage over radial displays, while radial displays were preferred for appearance.

Neither study tested Stamina. This specific watch face has not been clinically tested.

06 / your data stays on your watch

Useful information. No surveillance.

Time, steps, battery and date are read locally from Wear OS. The watch face has no account, advertising, analytics or network service.

  • No account
  • No analytics
  • No advertising
  • No network service
Read the Stamina watch-face privacy policy →

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See your hour differently.

8-Bit Retro Stamina Watch Face is coming soon to Google Play.

Coming soon to Google Play

Stamina is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or manage ADHD or any other condition. Individual experiences vary.