Skagen Connected

Using the app with a Jorn hybrid. Love the watch. Pairing and configuration were simple. Notifications working without any issues, but found them to be limited. 1- I was under the impression there was an alarm feature - not the case. Shouldn't be difficult to have that. 2- I wish the dev team would consider tying notifications from WhatsApp to your favorite contacts (additionally to the Email/Phonel/Text) vs. general app notification 3- The sync with Google fit isn't working

Edit: things got worse. This app is now BY FAR the most battery draining on my phone. Takes down the battery span for hours. Got my hybrid watch this Summer, worked like a charm; great interface (a bit slow but I don't mind) and synced with Google Fit so I have all my activity data in one place. Latest update however messed things up; the "widgets" on my watchface don't show anymore (as it's a physical clockwork I can still tell the time) and sync with Google Fit doesn't work anymore.

Update: My old review was very negative and talked about music controls and RCS messaging being broken, but this all got fixed! Which has encouraged me to buy more skagen hybrid devices, which I am not a huge fan of! I'm taking off one star because of two nit picks about how these devices work. I upgraded to the Jorn HR hybrid watch, which has a customizable e-ink display, but centering elements on the face is not something the app helps with at all, and making faces is a little frustrating. Also, the app doesn't do anything to sync with your watch until the app is opened, so you have to remember to open the phone app every day or two. It would be great if updates could happen regardless of app usage.

Very inaccurate (by about 500% off step count) In addition to this, my watch continues to stay disconnected from the app. I've tried all trouble shooting methods, but my watch won't sync and will forever be out of time during the summer when the clocks go back. Less useful than getting a watch that you can manually adjust 😓

Useless. Having not had the need for a watch due to lockdown, and being housebound I haven't used it or the app. Now with the need for a watch I put a new battery in and downloaded this app. This app doesn't work with the older watches. Wouldn't sync time, or change settings. Removed watch from app and tried to re-add it. App started updating firmware of phone but that failed during the process and now the app can't connect with the watch

Notifications stopped working after an update. The UI is a little better, but deep sleep should also be displayed at least on the weekly view. Using colors for anything else is pointless. The sleep detection algorithm is very weak at detecting daytime naps (even really long ones). IFTTT integration and a dark theme are missing.

I really like the app. Unfortunately, since my phone updated to Android Pie, it crashes every time I try to sync it. It hasn't been synced for the last 4-5 days and I also don't get notifications on my watch anymore which is quite annoying since I find them quite useful. It says my watch is connected and active but something is obviously not right. Please try to fix the issue!

I have had this 1 week. So far I love it. It is a simple tracker for steps and sleep. You can also set a number of alerts for specific apps or callers. When my hubby calls the dials point to one. The school is a 2. You can get alerts from apps such as email or text messages or most apps as well. I wish at times you could turn off bluetooth (not allowed at work). I also wish they had smaller thinner ones for women.

I agree that the old app left a lot to be desired, and that the new app does seem better in many waya. However, after the update I can no longer use my watch as it will not connect, even after trying everything I can think of from turning bluetooth off and on, to changing the battery - twice. I have written the Skagen support team and hope they are able to help me out - if not, it is a sad day that a watch does not work after owning it for less than a year.

The watch is beautiful, and the app looks nice too. It seems pretty accurate, but it's kind of limited in what you can do. That's not a bad thing since it allows the battery to last much longer than the average smartwatch. What I would really like, and would bring my rating up to 5 stars, is if the app connected to Samsung Health. Currently it only syncs to Google Fit, and the Under Armor apps I believe.

I really love the watch itself. It would be awesome if the app would add a few features. Notification to move when you've been sitting for a long time during work hours would be great, notification when you've gone out of range of the phone would also be good and it would be awesome if it was possible to set different commands for tap, double tap and long press on each button. Thank you for an otherwise good product.

This app is meant to compliment the hybrid watch product. The watch is a great device that looks great and has a good amount of smart functionality, however this has has become less reliable over time. The app had always been slow and buggy and has slowly got worse. I find the watch is now rarely actually connected which removes most of the added functionality of the watch that I paid for. If a bit of time and effort was spent on the app to simplify (remove silly animations) and make more reliable it would become a good app. If time was spent to increase the customisability of the watch function and allowed it to interact with other apps on my phone (eg starting a Strava workout with a button press, start a timer, stop an alarm) then it could be a great app and increase the value of the watch/app product as a whole. I don't know if fossil is slowly trying to kill the skagen connected range but this level of support is putting me off the whole fossil brand. It won't be long before most people are opting for connected devices so it seems ridiculous to be destroying your reputation at this stage in the game.

The old app was working fine and has worked since installed. Updated it to new version and it is totally useless. It refuses to sync with my watch. It has lost all my past data. Taken my opinion of the app from 4* down to 1*. Why fix something that was not broken in the first place! The changes in the UI do not help. Difficult to navigate before (hence the 4* rating) but now worse. Calibration and customisation do not work at all. Haven't enough characters to list all problems!

The notification does not go away, no matter how you set it to minimize. Most apps allow you to swipe away any notification so your notification drop down list isnt as busy. I called and the representative said that as of now, the developers do not have an option to take the notification away from my notification bar, but may include it in a future update. I have an android phone and have the skagen hybrid smart watch.

The app is nice and clean. But it doesn't sync to the watch on its own. I have to open the app and manually sync it each time. Whether it's 20 mins from the last time I synched it or 7 hours. Although you can set a goal and record your progress, it would be more helpful to receive a nudge occasionally as a reminder. E.g. drinking water

Please add the timer and stopwatch feature. They are very critical for the gym, cooking, and personal time management. The buttons do not response immediately and I need to hold them. Could you make them more responsive. Switching between configuration sets should be easier, through the mobile notification area without needing to open the app.

It's a good idea if it worked properly. I love his discrete the notifications can be but they don't work properly. It vibrates a lot saying I've got notifications when I don't. It also goes off when my phone is in do not disturb mode which isn't ideal when I try to sleep with the watch on. The step tracker isn't very accurate at all so I don't pay attention and the sleep one is a bit temperamental but it gives an idea at least. If the little bugs can be fixed it would be a good little app

It works. Accessing features on the app for my watch is sometimes difficult or confusing. I think over all the UX feels clean though. I would like to have a toggle alarm for customizabile. It's just simpler than having to dig aroind in the app. Also I'd like to see other customizable options on the forced notifications section. Sleeping habits and steps may not be useful to everyone. There are so many other great things to put there, ex. Alarms, your alternate time zone, current camera timer.

Please give some functionality to the colored bars! they're useless now. On a different note, the app seems to exaggerate my steps' count. Also, please provide additional capabilities (one idea would be to allow setting timers on the app and saving them, and assigning a button for them so that they can be activated when needed, and the watch could vibrate when the timer ends).

The old version was working fine, but with the new update, all my customized presets are gone, and I can't create new ones. So I can't use any of the buttons on my watch. The connect app keep on getting disconnected. The steps will sometime disappearing and reappearing after a day or two. Not happy with this update, please fix the bugs!

The app itself works fine. Loading time when opening the app is long as it needs to sync with the watch. When reopening the app after leaving it in the background crashes every time. While restarting the app fixes the issue it's more of an inconvenience. Button customisation is great, a little limited on what you can set them as. Notification settings are great allowing you to point the hands to different numbers so you know which app is alerting you.

A month after the last update, my step count history is still trashed and I haven't had any update from Skagen's team since the first tech was unable to help. My watch connects more consistently than before, but now occasionally "forgets" steps. I have hit my goal multiple times and synced my watch to confirm, only to see the next day that 1000+ steps are no longer counted. I don't like the new app. I'm considering researching other options, but I still love the hybrid design.

This app feels like the ugly duckling of most of my Android apps. It opts to use its own style rather than Material, which introduces all kinds of inconsistencies in UI response/feedback. The way it's organized and architected needs a lot of work too. Having a central dashboard view with summaries of everything from today/yesterday/past week would be amazing, including steps and activity, sleep, and even watch button profiles. It would also be nice to have IFTTT integration with watch buttons, and a larger variety of commands available. Setting alarms on the watch itself would also be nice (using the buttons to choose 5 minute increments). The watch itself is great, but I can barely recommend the app we're forced to use with it.

I just updated, and all of my step counts doubled, even older ones (e.g. 7,020 is now 14,040). I haven't used it for a new day but wondering if anyone else had this problem. The new UI is more cluttered than the last. I appreciated the simplicity of the previous version, but I guess I'll get used to the new one. I really like my Skagen hybrid watch, no need to charge it every night/week.

Love the app so far, and the smart features are very useful. However, 1 quite obvious feature missing would be the ability to set a timer on the watch. For example, have this feature mapped to the middle button. Once pressed the top and bottom buttons function change to increase timer by 1 minute, decrease timer by one minute. This would be displayed on the watch face. Then a press of the middle button again would confirm and start the timer, progress diaplayed on the secondary eye guage.