It combines excellent weather forecasting with data from Weather Underground or Dark Sky , lots of customization, and even achievements. The snarky evil robot voice helps make weather fun. Apple Watch support is especially robust, with several different complications available and the ability to customize them in the app. You can even use multiple different complications at once with watchOS 7, and widgets with iOS Carrot Weather was one of the first third-party apps to make use of the new corner complications on Apple Watch Series 4, and it gives you a card on the Siri watch face, too.
The cost is to cover the increased API usage of its data sources for features like real-time precipitation warnings. And some features are locked behind even more expensive subscription tiers. Apple has gotten a lot better about making Keychain and iCloud work together with Safari and apps to manage passwords, but if you ever step outside the Apple ecosystem for anything, you really ought to use a third-party password manager.
This is doubly true if you have family members who should all be using password managers but would like to share passwords for certain services like Netflix, for example. One of our absolute favorites is 1Password, which offers top-notch security and ease of use along with robust tools across multiple platforms.
On your Apple Watch, 1Password can quickly show you passwords, credit card details, notes, and one-time passwords for 2FA. Not a lot of games are well-suited to the tiny Apple Watch display, but Tiny Armies makes it work.
And for good reason, as not many game designs really lend themselves to the very limited screen space and interactions available in that form factor. Tiny Armies is a good exception.
It is available for iPhone, but the extremely compact and simple design of this clever strategy game really shine on the Apple Watch. It could just kick off a notification whenever you leave Bluetooth range. Having detailed speed, altitude and distance stats to hand when careening down a mountain on skis or a snowboard is all very well, but an iPhone's not the best of devices to access during such occasions.
Slopes therefore enables you to start recording data right from your Apple Watch, giving you important stats on your wrist, such as how much time you've spent zooming along on snow compared to riding boring lifts, and how high up you happen to be at any given moment. The best Apple Watch apps to keep you in good health, from remembering to take medication to getting a good night's sleep.
Specific allergens can be tracked, and real-time updates for things like grasses displayed in a complication. Particulate matter levels are provided, color-coded by severity.
There's basic weather forecasting, too, with key stats and a weekly outlook. But even if you favor another weather app, Air Matters is essential for knowing if it's safe to venture out, or whether breathing in some fresh air will result in hours of endless sneezing. Apple does offer its own native sleep tracking features now, though it's still a little on the basic side. If you're looking for an Apple Watch sleep app with a bit more about it, Sleep Cycle is one to try out instead.
The standalone app makes use of the Apple Watch's onboard accelerometer to track and analyse your bed time, includes smart alarms to gently wake you up in the morning and it works with Apple Health too.
If you're willing to spend for the full Sleep Cycle experience, you'll also get look deeper into your stats and get access to a library of guides and sleep sounds to help you get some shut eye. It looks great and even without paying up, you'll still get a great Apple Watch sleep tracking app. Another good option for sleep data fans looking for a richer experience might want to also check out NapBot. The third party sleep app made some useful changes recently, including letting you adjust sleep goals from the Watch and being able to view a calendar to look back at sleep data from your wrist.
Free 7-day trial then subscription, iTunes. Endel was named Apple Watch app of the year in the company's App Store best of list and is another one to look to if you're seeking out something to keep you calmer and to help de-stress. It's all about soundscapes that are designed to reduce stress, help you focus or get you into a sleepier state. Those soundscapes factor in your location, your heart rate and even the weather to make it a more personal experience and is fully integrated with Apple Health.
You can trial it for a week, but then you'll need to decide whether to pay up monthly, annually or for life. It's a beautifully designed app and a great one to check out if you've been looking for something you can turn to at home or on the move when you need to refocus, relax or a get a good night's sleep. Fire up Apple's Heart Rate app and you can see how your ticker's doing, and how it performed during a recent bout of exercise. Heart Analyzer ramps up the detail, drawing on your existing Health data and presenting it in a manner that lets you delve much deeper into your stats.
You get metrics of heart rates over the past week, and graphs of recent exercise sessions. Custom complications complete the picture, including a large live heart rate graph that's more immediately readable than Apple's equivalent.
For forming habits — in a good way — there's nothing better than Streaks. On your iOS device, you define up to 12 habits although the interface prefers six. These can be one-off or timed tasks; each can be assigned to a specific day or to be completed a certain number of times per week or month. It's all very flexible, and the Apple Watch app becomes a means to get a brain buzz as you track tasks, run timers, and mark everything complete.
If you find your mood is often all over the place, this app provides a low-friction way of tracking it, and perhaps the means to find out what's going on. Right on your Apple Watch, you can at any point log your mood, and create a brief journal entry.
A mood calendar is gradually constructed, potentially enabling you to figure out trends. Most of the analytics ultimately happen on your iPhone, but at-a-glance entries and a simple ups and downs graph can be perused on your wrist. If you're diabetic, then keeping track of your glucose and everything around it can be difficult.
One Drop wants to make that easier, allowing you to log glucose, meds, food and activity directly from your wrist. It can also integrate into HealthKit and now offers widget support to better keep track from the main watch screen. All of this together will help you manage your diabetes better than ever before. This one is true to its name. There's nothing you need to do with AutoSleep, just make sure the app is installed and you're wearing your Watch to bed. It'll automatically track your sleep.
In the morning, it'll send you a notification with your sleep analysis, including how you restless you were or how long you were in deep sleep. There's even a mode for if you don't wear your Watch to bed, as long as you sleep right after you charge your Watch and put it on when you wake up.
Although we'd argue that feature is a little pointless when you could just as easily hit a stopwatch. You can track weight using Apple's Health app on your iPhone, but Vekt makes inputting your details a mite easier.
Launch the app, twiddle the Digital Crown, tap Save Weight, and you're done. The app will outline how far you are from any target set in the iPhone app; and over on your phone, you can see how you're doing, checking out your recent progress by way of a wiggly graph. Often cited as a great way to relax and become more mindful, yoga can nonetheless be tricky to get started with. But this app removes distractions, presenting routines as a simple series of static images. You can define how long each position should be held for — although add 30 seconds, since there's no pause between them.
And if you want to concentrate on specific positions, you can define your own routines on your iPhone. Those apps you can't do without: calendars, timers, money management and Wikipedia on your wrist.
Solar Watch is instead obsessed with light. On Apple Watch, you can browse locations defined on your iPhone. Each is represented as a disc that outlines when sunset and sunrise are going to be— along with the all-important golden hour for top snaps. Scroll down using the Digital Crown and you can peruse a list of times. The app works best as an at-a-glance complication, though, fitting into even the smallest circular spots.
In short, you set a distance threshold between your iPhone and Apple Watch, and should they be separated for too long, alarms start blaring. Forget your iPhone in a restaurant and alerts will very quickly put you on the path to setting things right.
You're in the world's longest and most pointless business meeting with no idea about the progress of your favorite team's latest game. Add in a decent helping of breaking news alerts and complications that can keep you in the know at a glance, and there's no better solution for sports fans. On iPhone, Just Press Record is a very efficient app for making quick recordings: tap the record button, capture some audio, stop the recording, and your audio then syncs to the cloud.
This is all now on your wrist too, and you can even record without your iPhone around. Your recordings will transfer into the cloud and there's even a complication that'll launch you into a recording automatically. It's astonishing Apple omitted a calculator from Apple Watch until watchOS 6 maybe Tim Cook hates Casio , but we're comforted by the fact that PCalc existed to heroically come to our aid. In fact, it's still a solid alternative to Apple's own app, with an excellent interface and built-in conversions.
Everything's super-responsive, and you can use the Digital Crown to adjust conversion values. Apple reasons no-one wants to type messages on an Apple Watch, instead having you dictate or use the gimmicky Scribble. It's a touch fiddly, but once you're used to pecking at the tiny keys, or master the effective slide-to-type feature, it's faster than Apple's options.
The Digital Crown is smartly used, too, for changing words and moving the cursor. When you're done, a couple of taps sends your missive on its way. Our lives are dictated by bills, and there's no app better at helping you keep track of bills than Mint. The Apple Watch app, like its older iPhone brother, is a simple way to see which bills you've got to pay soon, how much money you have flowing in and out of your accounts and how good or bad your credit score is.
All of this essential financial information is huddled into three separate screens, so you can quickly slide between them to get everything you need at a glance. Best of all, everything is neat and color-coded, so you don't have to squint your eyes trying to figure out maths. Apple's Calendar app is fine for reading appointments, but Fantastical saves you fishing out your iPhone to add events.
Here, what you dictate hooks into Fantastical's natural-language input, and so it usually correctly interprets things like 'lunch on Friday at 2pm for an hour,' making you feel like you're living in the future.
The stiff monthly outlay means it's not for everyone, but if you're already using Fantastical on a Mac or iPad, it makes sense to get it on your Apple Watch as well.
A Watch app for those fully immersed in Apple's smart home ecosystem as well, WristControl is a place to take charge of your connected kit from your Watch.
There's a dedicated screen to simply select your Scenes and you can also add complications to the watch face for every scene available to make it easier to take control. It's a standalone app too, so you don't need your iPhone within reach to when you need to tinker with the lights or the heating. Apple's own Timer app is straightforward but limited to just one countdown timer.
It's no good if you need to time several things simultaneously, unless you buy loads of Apple Watches and strap them to your arm. MultiTimer is a far more sensible choice, and even in its free incarnation provides six timers. These are defined on iPhone color, icon, default length and show up in the Apple Watch app, where you can view a single timer or several at once. Pay for the in-app purchase and you can have unlimited timers — although you should perhaps ask yourself at that point if you're getting a bit obsessed.
If you need to keep track of your money after blowing a huge amount of it on, say, a new Apple Watch, Pennies can help.
The app enables you to set up multiple lists, to which you can add and remove funds as and when you need. On Apple Watch, the app's stripped back compared to its iPhone counterpart, but you can still discover what you have left to spend even using a Complication as a constant reminder , and quickly deduct cash from your budget when you rashly splash out on a new Apple Watch strap you totally didn't need.
Deliveries is pretty great on every platform, tracking goodies that are winging their way to you, and ensuring you're not out when a courier is about to hurl that new laptop over your fence. On Apple Watch, you get the same list, location maps of where your things currently are, and handy notifications when a delivery is imminent.
In all honesty, we question the need to have your entire Twitter timeline on your wrist; still, Chirp provides the means to dig into an endless stream of tiny messages on your tiny Apple device. Its utility becomes clearer when you grab the in-app purchases and unlock the full feature set, enabling you to reply to tweets, delve into direct messages, perform quick searches and keep track of news or gossip by browsing what's currently trending.
Also featured are stories, videos, and live audio streams. Best for: All sports lovers. You can also keep a track of your score by entering your strokes and putts.
Best for: Golfers. Developer: Stat Track Technologies Lda. Check it out. Frequently touted as the best weather app for your Apple Watch, Dark Sky Weather delivers up-to-the-hour weather updates by way of a supremely approachable layout. Best for: Those who plan ahead. Developer: Apple Size: True to its name, Just Press Record makes mobile audio recording an absolute breeze. All it takes is one tap to start recording, and another to pause.
Use your iOS device to share recordings, or keep them all to yourself. Also featured is the ability to transcribe your voice memo to text, as well as the option to store your recordings on the cloud. All that and more makes this one of the best Apple Watch apps you can instal. Best for: Those who keep voice memos. Developer: Open Planet Software Size: 8.
For decades now, PowerPoint has remained a cornerstone in the world of business presentation. Instead, load the presentation onto your iPhone and use your Apple Watch as a remote of sorts.
Easy, breezy. Best for: Corporate types. Developer: Microsoft Corporation Size: Not just the brightness, but the colours as well?
Best for: Home-automation experts. Developer: Fernando Toledo Guerrero Size: Best for: Music lovers. Developer: Shazam Entertainment Ltd. The best podcast app comes to your wrist and it still remains one of the best ways to stay on top of your podcast feeds.
As with other podcast apps, you need to have the accompanying iPhone app, but the Apple Watch app allows you access to handy features like playback control, speed control, silence trimming and, of course, volume control. Best for: Podcast listeners. Not every one of us can afford a personal money manager, and thanks to the Mint app, not every one of us needs one. The wildly popular app saves time and money by helping you budget, manage bills, avoid fees and stay on top of your credit score.
Best for: Penny pinchers. Developer: Mint. Manage your finances down to the last penny with the Pennies budgeting app. It tracks your spending and helps you determine whether or not you can realistically afford that next big purchase you keep clamouring on about. The Apple Watch Series 5 is their latest generation smartwatch featuring all the same features from previous versions including waterproofing and built-in GPS, plus a few added features. It has a larger display, upgraded S4 processor with W3 wireless chip, an electrical heart sensor on the digital crown.
It also offers an Always-On display, built-in compass and comes in two different size options at 40mm and 44mm. Buy it here. There are plenty more across all categories.
Jacob Osborn is an accomplished author and journalist with over 10 years of experience in the media industry. Now based in Portland, Oregon, Jacob specialises in entertainment, technology and alcohol reporting. You might find him crate-digging at the nearest record store or sampling whisky at the nearest bar.
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