Facer and LVGL Partner to Bring the World’s Largest Watch Face Catalog to Millions of Smartwatches

Las Vegas, NV — January 7, 2026 — Facer, the world’s leading platform for smartwatch personalization, and LVGL, the widely adopted open-source graphics library for embedded systems, today announced a strategic partnership that will make Facer’s massive catalog of custom watch faces available on a growing ecosystem of LVGL-powered smartwatches. LVGL already powers millions of devices from brands such as Xiaomi and IDO, making this collaboration a significant expansion of Facer’s platform into embedded smartwatches.

Facer is already the leading watch-face platform on Apple Watch and Google Wear OS, and in recent years has begun expanding its technology to other smartwatches. The partnership with LVGL accelerates this strategy dramatically, enabling manufacturers who rely on proprietary hardware and resource-constrained RTOS-based systems to deliver a premium, customizable watch face experience without the cost and engineering complexity of building a full watch face ecosystem from scratch.

More Consumer Choice + A Faster Path for Smartwatch Makers

RTOS-powered smartwatches typically ship with limited watch face options, despite watch faces being the primary way consumers personalize their devices. Through this partnership, LVGL-based devices will gain access to Facer’s 500,000+ designs from top brands and the best independent designers on the planet spanning analog, digital, hybrid, fitness, seasonal, artistic, and more.

LVGL’s highly optimized graphics engine solves a core challenge for manufacturers: delivering visually rich, dynamic watch faces on low-power hardware without compromising responsiveness or battery life. Facer complements this with a huge catalog of faces and a complete ecosystem for creation, distribution, and management of premium watch-face content.

“The embedded wearable space is huge and expanding, and the demand for customizable, user-centric experiences on low-power wearables is clear,” said Brook Eaton, CPO of Facer. “Facer is already the go-to platform for Apple Watch and Wear OS users, and partnering with LVGL lets us bring that same premium experience to a massive and historically underserved segment of the market.”

A Turnkey Watch Face Ecosystem for Embedded Devices

This collaboration dramatically reduces development time and cost for smartwatch manufacturers and provides immediate access to Facer’s ecosystem, including:

• Facer Creator: A powerful web-based tool enabling designers and OEMs to build rich watch faces without embedded programming expertise.
• Library of 500,000+ designs: The largest global catalog, including premium licensed content from top brands.
• Publishing tools: A direct channel for brands to create, manage, and distribute their own watch-face collections.

“Custom watch faces are one of the most loved features on smartwatches — but offering them on RTOS-based devices has historically required major engineering effort,” said Gábor Kiss-Vámos, Project Leader at LVGL. “Our collaboration with Facer changes that. For the first time, smartwatch makers can integrate a rich, fully customizable watch face experience on low-power embedded platforms using a production-grade solution built on LVGL and Facer.”

Next Steps for Smartwatch Makers

While LVGL’s graphics engine and libraries remain free and open source, this collaboration introduces an optional enhancement that enables manufacturers to integrate the full Facer watch face ecosystem into their devices. Facer further offers options for manufacturers to pre-pay for access to premium faces for their consumers or simply let consumers decide and pay for what they want. LVGL also offers UI design tools to further aid in UI development. Together, this partnership provides smartwatch makers with the fastest and most efficient path for smartwatch makers to deliver a differentiated, premium, and deeply customizable user experience right out of the box.

About Facer

Facer is the world’s leading platform for smartwatch personalization. Available on Apple Watch, Wear OS, and other leading smartwatch platforms, Facer empowers millions of users to express their individuality through thousands of free and premium watch faces created by top brands, designers, and independent artists. With its powerful Facer Creator tools, anyone can design and publish custom watch faces, contributing to the largest global marketplace for wearable creativity.

👉 For more information: www.facer.io | LinkedIn

👉 Press Contact: press@facer.io

About LVGL

LVGL (Light and Versatile Graphics Library) is the world’s most popular open-source graphics library for embedded devices, powering millions of wearables, appliances, medical devices, and industrial panels. Its lightweight architecture and growing set of UI tools give development teams everything they need to create beautiful, fully customized user interfaces — whether working with low-power microcontrollers or powerful microprocessors.

👉 For more information: www.lvgl.io | LinkedIn
👉 Smartwatch OEMs: lvgl.io/facer or contact lvgl@lvgl.io
👉 Press Contact: lvgl@lvgl.io