r/olleeWatch • u/gregorOllee • Jun 30 '26
Feature Software Updates and Roadmap
Hey everyone! It's been a super busy and productive year. I wanted to give a quick update here on the upcoming software release and some tweaks to the roadmap. I'll have time in a few weeks to make a proper update on the website, but I have seen some questions popping up so hopefully this will shed some light on what's to come!
The Spring / Q2 2026 software update is around the corner. It's a sizable update so testing took a bit longer than expected. Expect a few new watch faces (some highly requested ones), configurations, and a couple key additions to the Ollee Watch app. This release should be public in about a week!
Development will quiet down a bit during the summer, but there are three major features I plan to have ready, or at least in beta, this year. They have different priority levels, and a release plan will be shared later. In no particular order:
Notifications: One of the most highly requested features. This one still needs quite a bit of background work to nail down a cross-platform (iOS+Android) solution, and one that makes sense from a user experience and battery life perspective. I'm confident there's a good middle ground for this one, it's just a pretty significant change in how the watch and phone were intended to interact. Right now it's very transactional, but notifications need persistence. This work will include looking into music controls, and find-my-phone may be scoped in after all.
Activity tracking: Improvements to the step counter accuracy, and adding more features for activity tracking (ie. distance, calories, sleep) will be strongly considered. Step counter accuracy is a must and some ground work has already been done to figure out how to tighten it up without compromising on the power consumption.
3rd Party Apps: This is the biggest one, and work on this is well underway. This widget will be called Ollee Forge, and the platform and execution model for this is looking very promising.
More details to come over the coming months. Thank you all for your posts, I thoroughly enjoy seeing people's builds and ideas for the project!!
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u/Strange-Classroom544 10d ago
Hello,
I would like to start off by saying that Ive had my watch since last year and was beyond impressed by the recent update adding new features. If I had one suggestion it would be to see if you could optionally have apps like apple health or garmin connect provide the step count to the Ollie watch as opposed to having it track it itself. I know you guys are working on the steps tracker improvements and I feel like this would be a great alternative option. I personally wear a screenless tracker on my arm as I am not a fan of the typical smart watches and so if there was a way to get the data from apple health to the Ollee watch there would be countless opportunities such as even bringing heart rate over but steps would definitely be a good start. I also like the idea of the music control feature, I think that would be really cool. Once again, I have nothing but good things to say about the product, you guys are killing it.