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Pebble is officially back on iOS and Android

by vlod on 10/19/25, 12:00 PM with 16 comments

• by crims0n on 10/19/25, 1:01 PM

  13 years ago?! Where does the time go. Unfortunately my original Pebble band deteriorated, but I did charge up my Pebble Time and it seemed to be working, will give it a sync for old times (pun) sake. I have a Pebble 2 Duo in route, I wasn’t much of a programmer 13 years ago so looking forward to doing some development on it (in C no less!).

• by hasperdi on 10/19/25, 2:02 PM

  I bought Pebble time many years ago, it arrived with the front panel gaping open, it wasn't properly attached to the watch body. I emailed them about this and it took weeks for them to reply... giving me a boilerplate answer. I had to spam as many people in the company as I could including the CEO, to get a replacement.

  Never again.

• by ThePowerOfFuet on 10/19/25, 2:58 PM

  https://xcancel.com/ericmigi/status/1979576965494710564

  The actual link: http://repebble.com/app

• by henearkr on 10/19/25, 4:45 PM

  (Edited: as the Rebble project just uses the Pebble app)

  On Android, should I give a try to GadgetBridge, which seems both more open but way less official, instead of the Pebble app?

  And by the way, why not make the Pebble app open source? I don't see any compelling reason.

• by vlod on 10/19/25, 12:02 PM

  Installing the Pebble SDK: https://developer.repebble.com/sdk/

  Tutorials: https://developer.repebble.com/tutorials/

  Examples: https://developer.repebble.com/examples/

• by konraditurbe on 10/19/25, 1:48 PM

  Been using it for a month with my pebble time. No health features yet but everything else more or less works. The underlying library that actually handles the comms with the pebble is open source so it's easy to add new features and fix bugs yourself.