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Gadgetbridge 0.44.0 has been released! Let's play the F-Droid waiting game.

This release finally merges support for WatchX(Plus). Support for this watch has been contributed to "ksiwczynski", "mkusnierz" and finally "mamutcho", who also did the final polishing before official inclusion. We do not own the device ourselves …

Gadgetbridge 0.43.0 has been released and will be in F-Droid, god knows when. If she exists.

This release adds initial suport for Fossil Hybrid HR. Again most of the work was contributed by Daniel Dakhno. Thanks Daniel! Unfortunately this device needs server side pairing with the official Fossil …

Gadgetbridge 0.42.0 has been released and is already build by F-Droid.

This release adds initial support support for "iTag" devices, contributed by Taavi Eomäe. Lacking any compatible devices, we cannot really tell you anything about it though ;)

Apart from iTag support, Taavi also contributed various other small fixes …

Gadgetbridge 0.41.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon.

This release adds support for the JYou Y5 and improved button actions for Mi Band 2 And Amazfit Bip.

JYou Y5 support was contributed by Pavel Elagin in a very old PR we never merged. It was …

As announced almost a year ago, we finally completely to Codeberg on 10th December 2019. Our GitHub repo is archived now, but we will resync it from time to time, so we stay visible there, no interaction will be possible on GitHub though. Please create a Codeberg account, if you …

You can finally donate to Gadgetbridge again!

After more than a year we bit the bullet and re-enabled donations on liberapay by complying with what had to be done to make that work. We were already almost dried up and were unable to buy devices we wanted to support. To …

Gadgetbridge 0.38.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

We added initial support the Amazfit GTR, but just like with the Mi Band 4 and Amazfit Bip Lite support, unfortunatly this sounds better than it is.

WE CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS DEVICE TO OUR USERS, SINCE YOU …

Gadgetbridge 0.37.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

One highlight is Makibes HR3 support was contributed by Lukas Schwichtenberg. Thank you Lukas for the great work.

We also managed to support the Amazfit Bip Lite, but just like with the Mi Band 4 support, unfortunatly …

Gadgetbridge 0.36.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

This release accumulates a lot of fixes and small improvements and a few minor new features. Many of which came in with the help of community contributions, special thanks to @vanous who really took a deep dive …

Gadgetbridge 0.35.0 has been released and will appear on F-Droid soon!

The only change in the major release is Mi Band 4 support, unfortunatly this sounds better than it is.

WE CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS DEVICE TO OUR USERS, SINCE YOU HAVE TO INSTALL MI FIT SOMEWHERE, CREATE AN …