WristTale 1.1.2 adds chapter range selection, Android system file import, Big5 and Shift-JIS support, more reliable Garmin watch transfers, better chapter detection, and chapter jumping in the updated watch app.
Learn how file encoding detection works for TXT files, what BOMs and byte patterns can tell you, and when to manually try GB18030, Big5, Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, or UTF-16 before converting to UTF-8.
Garbled Chinese text usually means a TXT file was opened with the wrong encoding. Learn how to identify mojibake, test GBK, GB18030, Big5, and UTF-8, and convert the file before importing it into WristTale.
WristTale is for reading TXT and Markdown on a Garmin watch. WristListen is for turning eligible TXT or EPUB books into chapter audio for offline listening. This guide compares two separate apps by use case.