Download the app, connect your LibreLinkUp account, and set it up in the Garmin Connect IQ settings, with the exact taps and screens you'll see along the way.
On your phone, open the Garmin Connect IQ store app and search for GGlance.
GGlance comes as two apps. The app puts your glucose, trend and graph on a full screen. The data field shows your glucose live inside a workout, next to your pace and heart rate, so you can keep an eye on it on a run or ride. Install one or both, they're free with no account to create.
Connect IQ pushes GGlance to your watch automatically. You'll see it appear under your apps within a minute.
Which watch? GGlance runs on every Garmin that supports Connect IQ: most Forerunner, Venu, Vívoactive, fēnix and epix models from the last few years. It works exclusively with the FreeStyle Libre.
GGlance reads your glucose through LibreLinkUp, Abbott's free follower app. Install it and create an account. It's separate from the FreeStyle LibreLink app that actually runs your sensor.
Open the FreeStyle LibreLink app that reads your sensor, go to its connected-apps / sharing section, and invite your LibreLinkUp account. This is the step that links LibreLinkUp to your sensor, GGlance never talks to the sensor directly.
Open LibreLinkUp and accept the sharing invite. Once your glucose shows up in LibreLinkUp, it's connected to LibreLink and ready for GGlance to use.
LibreLink vs LibreLinkUp. LibreLink runs your sensor; LibreLinkUp follows it. GGlance reads from LibreLinkUp, so this share has to be set up before GGlance can show anything.
On your phone, open Garmin Connect → your watch → Connect IQ Apps → GGlance → Settings. Everything for GGlance lives there, you don't set anything up on the watch itself.
Enter your LibreLinkUp email, password and region (for example Europe). Use your LibreLinkUp login, not your LibreLink (sensor) login, and make sure the region matches your account, that's what trips most people up. Your credentials are stored only in your Garmin settings and used solely to fetch your own readings.
Set your low and high targets, for example 70 and 180, and pick mg/dL or mmol/L, so the colors and the in-range band on your watch match how you read your numbers.
Not a medical device. GGlance shows your readings for convenience only. Always confirm with your FreeStyle Libre reader before making any treatment decision.
GGlance is built by people who use it daily. Reach out and a human will get back to you.
