ConKarma's wearables support brings family ops to your wrist on Apple Watch and Wear OS. Apple Watch complications and Wear OS Tiles surface the same three-row glance: today's streak, today's quest, and the cell's DNA balance. You can mark a mission done directly from the wrist without unlocking your phone, and family-ritual notifications surface there too.
There's no separate sign-in on the watch; it reads from the paired phone, whose session is the source of truth, with a passive 15-minute fallback so the glance is never badly stale. Wear OS support requires Wear OS 3 or later. The watch is a read-and-tap surface: anything that needs more than a tap, like journal entries, conflict flows, adult-tier surfaces, or cell admin, stays on the phone.
Apple Watch
WidgetKit complications on watchOS, plus the Tier 1 surfaces — a 3-row glance (streak, today's quest, DNA balance) sized for the modular and rectangular complication slots. Watch-actionable notifications mean you can mark a mission done directly from the wrist; no app launch, no phone unlock required.
Wear OS
Tile surface for the same 3-row layout, plus a Data Layer bridge from the paired phone. Supported on Wear OS 3+ (Galaxy Watch 4 and later, Pixel Watch, Fossil Gen 6 / Wear OS 3 update). Older Tizen Galaxy Watch models are excluded — they don't share the Wear OS app model.
Sync layer
The watch reads from the phone via WatchConnectivity (iOS) or DataClient (Wear OS). No separate auth on the watch — the phone's session is the source of truth. The watch surface refreshes when the phone-side cache invalidates, with a passive 15-minute fallback so the glance is never more than 15 minutes stale even if you've left the phone behind.
Why families care about a wrist surface
Glance the kid's streak from the school pickup line. Mark a mission done while you're in the kitchen and the phone is upstairs. Get the Family Reveal Sunday recap on the wrist without picking up a screen. The wrist surface is the lowest-friction surface for the most frequent micro-interactions a family-ops app generates.
What's not on the watch
Anything that requires composing more than a tap: journal entries, conflict resolution flows, adult-tier surfaces, cell admin. The watch is read + tap, not read + write. Anything more substantive happens on the phone.
How to set up
Pair the watch normally with your phone; the surfaces appear automatically when ConKarma is installed.
- Install ConKarma on the phone and sign in.
- Pair your Apple Watch or Wear OS watch with the phone in the usual platform flow.
- Add the ConKarma complication or Tile from the watch face / Tiles carousel.
Frequently asked questions
Which watches does ConKarma support?
ConKarma supports Apple Watch via WidgetKit complications and Wear OS via Tiles. Wear OS needs version 3 or later, such as Galaxy Watch 4 and newer, Pixel Watch, or Fossil Gen 6; older Tizen Galaxy Watch models aren't supported.
Do I need to sign in separately on the watch?
No. The watch reads from the paired phone, and the phone's session is the source of truth. The glance refreshes when the phone-side cache updates, with a passive 15-minute fallback so it's never more than 15 minutes stale.
What can I actually do from the watch?
You can glance at today's streak, today's quest, and the cell's DNA balance, mark a mission done with a tap, and receive family-ritual notifications like the Sunday recap, all without opening the phone.
Can I write journal entries on the watch?
No. The watch is read plus tap, not read plus write. Anything that requires composing, like journal entries, conflict resolution flows, adult-tier surfaces, or cell admin, happens on the phone.