Download the app, connect your sensor, and set it up in the Garmin Connect IQ settings. Pick your sensor below and the guide follows it.
On your phone, open the Garmin Connect IQ store app and search for GGlance.
GGlance comes as three 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. Both are free and always will be, with no account to create. The watch face puts it right on the dial you already look at, and is a separate, one-time $4.99 purchase. Install whichever you need.
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 with the FreeStyle Libre and with Dexcom G6 and G7. The watch face supports fewer models than the app and data field, check its own Compatible Devices tab before buying.
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 the email and password for the account you connected in step 2: your LibreLinkUp login on Libre, or your Dexcom login on Dexcom. On Libre, use the LibreLinkUp login rather than the LibreLink (sensor) one, that's what trips most people up. There is no region to set, GGlance finds it automatically. 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 or Dexcom app before making any treatment decision.
GGlance is built by people who use it daily. Reach out and a human will get back to you.
