Pebble smartwatches could soon become even better alternatives to the Apple Watch and Pixel Watch thanks to a new series of plugins that Pebble founder and Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky says will be integrated into the wearable’s SDK. The new plugins will work “a bit like Apple Watch complications,” Migicovsky writes on Bluesky , but with even more flexibility and uses that extend to Core Devices’ Index smart ring , too.

Pebble devs – we're working on something big for you 👀The biggest change to the SDK since…forever. Plugins: headless apps that provide data (eg weather, finance, traffic) or offer actions (home control, music, webhooks) to other apps, watchfaces and the Index agent.

— Eric Migicovsky (@ericmigi.com) 2026-10-22T17:04:32.097Z

In the past, if a Pebble watch face developer wanted to include functionality that went beyond telling the time (like showing the current weather, for example), they had to hard-code that functionality (and the APIs that make it possible) into the watch face…