10 Great Apple Watch Apps You Can be Really Enthusiastic About
Anyone can get excited about a smartwatch, and when it is the Apple Watch, there is no limit to the excitement. Many luxury watch brands are manufacturing their own smartwatches and there is no doubt that the coming years will see even more intelligent wrist wear.
The Apple Watch’s features are what make it really stand out from the watches available from competitor brands, including fitness trackers, Digital Crown, and other enhanced UI functions, including scrolling and zoom.
Reasons to Buy the Apple Watch
There are a number of reasons to buy Apple Watch:
- The Apple Watch will keep you moving! It’s the sort of motivating wearable you’ll want to keep on your wrist as it updates you with custom fitness alerts.
- The watch will keep you organized. You’ll get calendar alerts right on your wrist, reminding you of where you need to go next.
- It’s great for people who work in the health and technology sectors. And if you’re a technology freak, it’s the best wearable in today’s tech world.
If you’re already a fan of Apple devices, you won’t want to miss this amazing watch.
If you are planning to buy an Apple watch, or already own one, here are a few apps that you can’t miss.
- Evernote
Evernote is an application that is available everywhere. The major draw of this app is that it allows you to record voice notes. You’re sure to have fun (and feel like a secret agent) recording a message from your wristwatch.
Evernote will let you set reminders and check items off your To-Do list without you ever accessing your phone.
Evernote also allows you to read on the Apple watch. The app syncs your progress to your iPhone, so you can switch back and forth seamlessly.
- Citymapper
Citymapper is the can’t-miss transit app. The benefit of having it on your wrist is that it’s absolutely hands free and you can still easily view the directions to your destination. When you’ve reached your destination, your Watch will vibrate and send you an alert.
Citymapper is the best app for your Apple Watch if you’re a frequent traveller.
Many people already use Instagram on their smartphone. While you won’t be able to take pictures and post them to Instagram on your watch, you will still be able to view updates from your contacts.
- BetterWorks
BetterWorks is a great app for sales teams and for digital marketers as well. This specialized app works in parallel with the mobile app. Instant alerts are available, which can alert digital marketers whenever a campaign goal has been met.
WeChat allows users to send and receive messages and stickers from their contacts. The app will be available first in China, so you may have to wait to get this messenger app if you’re outside of China.
The app also has the ability to accept friend requests and allows users to view other users who are nearby.
- Alarm.com
This is one of the smartest apps for Apple Watch—an all-in-one control app for your smart home. This app allows the user to open or shut their garage door, lock all the smart-locks in the home, and much more, with just the push of a button.
The app automatically connects to the wi-fi enabled devices in your home, but perhaps the best feature of this app is the video feed of your home that you can view from your watch, allowing you to keep an eye on what’s happening at home when you’re out and about.
The app is Home Kit compatible and customized alerts are possible—creating an instant window into your home.
- Shazam
Identifying a song playing at a bar by opening Shazam on your mobile phone is an impressive trick, but the Apple Watch’s app simplifies the process. With Shazam on your wrist, you’ll be a single tap away from your favorite tunes.
- StepWise
This is a great fitness tracker app that allows the user to keep count of the steps they walk in a specified period of time.
StepWise is a pedometer app that can be managed directly from the wrist of the user. It is a must-have app in the Apple watch.
- Dude
Dude is a context aware messaging app specially for the Apple Watch. The app allows the user to pick any location from a nearby list of places and even select a contact to tweet it to.
The context-aware sentence is created based on the time of the day and current location of the user. The app updates users on what their friends are doing at the time.
- Apple Pay
Apple Pay has killer features and is not a third party app. This app allows users to make payments wirelessly at any NFC enabled terminal. You simply push a button on the side of your watch to bring up an image of your credit card and use the NFC enabled terminal to make the payment. Your watch will give you a signal when your payment is complete.
Apple Pay is a very convenient method of making payments on the go.
Future of Apple Watch Apps
Creating apps for the Apple Watch is a billion dollar opportunity for developers. These are apps that make the Apple watch a must-have wearable instead of a luxury accessory.
As far as the future of Apple Watch apps are concerned, there will be more interactive apps for the watch in the near future. Developers are working hard on creating unique apps, and improvements will be made to the hardware of the Apple Watch. Future Apple Watches are planned to be even thinner than they are now.
Apple will continue to look for innovative ways to make the Apple Watch a must-have accessory that will be just as desirable, if not more so, than a smartphone.
Apple Watch is surely going to change day-to-day life in the future, especially for those who work in offices. There’s sure to be a number of apps that will be solely geared towards office workers. There are many new productivity apps in development that will track your valuable time. People are optimistic for this new and smart gadget to be more user-friendly in the future.
Author Bio
Keval Padia is a Founder & CEO of Nimblechapps, a fast-growing apple watch app development company. The current innovations and updates in the field lure him to express his views and thoughts on certain topics.