Freeyourgadget blog
A free and cloudless replacement for your gadget vendors' closed source Android applications.

Initiated in 2015 with the aim of providing pebble users freedom from the vendor servers (it's ironic that at the time of this writings the pebble servers will be shutdown in a few weeks, but I digress..), Gadgetbridge as of today:

• issued 129 releases (on f-droid.org)
• supports more than …

Gadgetbridge 0.26.0 has just been tagged and will show up on F-Droid soon.

The highlight of this release is the added feature that allows to export the activities (workouts) recorded with the Amazfit Bip.

This feature is not perfect yet, but already works quite well. The most notable …

Gadgetbridge 0.23.0 has just been tagged and will show up on F-Droid soon.

The highlight of this release is the addition of CyanogenMod/LineageOS weather provider support. This means that you no longer need the "Weather Notification" app to be able to see weather information on your wearable …

Gadgetbridge 0.22.0 has just been tagged and will show up on F-Droid soon.

This is an exciting milestone, since finally our longstanding background javascript branch has been merged! When enabled, this allows pebble apps and watchfaces to execute the javascript code bundled with .pbw files to be executed …

Gadgetbridge 0.21.3 has been released on F-Droid (0.21.4 is also ready and will appear on F-Droid after the build and indexing process has finished)

One day after we found out that the Amazfit Bip firmware 0.0.9.14 (included in Mifit 3.1.0) had …

Gadgetbridge 0.21.0 (and 0.21.1) have been released a a few days ago. So this blog post is a bit late.

Less then one month after our last version bump, we bumped again since we had the oppurtunity to add TWO new devices though pull request from …

Il testo in italiano si trova in calce. Italian text follows.

It has been brought to our attention that several websites provide APKs of Gadgetbridge instead of linking to the official release on F-Droid

This is happening a lot lately thanks to Gadgetbridge being able to flash custom firmwares to …

Gadgetbridge 0.20.0 (and 0.20.1) have been tagged and will be on f-droid soon.

We are very excited about the release, since we now officially support the Amazfit Bip. Except for workout and importing GPS data, nearly all features are already working.

We also like to mention …

This is a post-Mortem of the DMCA takedown notice that hit Gadgetbridge in June 2017, written by two core developers of the project.

First things first: We would like to thank all the people who sent us their support via mail, social networks, chat and other means.

As everyone does …

Today, Github finally reopened our repository including wiki, issues and all other content, since the 14 days waiting period, which started after they published our Counter Notice is over now.

We want to thank all the great people who supported us during the last five weeks!

The issue tracker is …