A small guide to the best and most useful applications for Apple Watch in 2018 that will bring to life new amenities, will be able to motivate or just cheer up.
Some of the applications can be downloaded for free. Let's go!
1. Streaks
Download in iTunes: 379 rub.
What is the feature: An effective motivating application with a share of gamification in terms of formation good habits.
With the help of thin convenient setting in the program you can choose visual presentation, select days of the week, exact time, frequency and even the sound of reminders. In addition, integration with Apple Health allows you to add habit tasks by physical activity, the data will be calculated automatically.
In total, you can add 6 basic habits. The restriction was made by the developers on purpose, so that attention is focused on fulfilling only a few goals, and the user's fuse does not quickly fade away.
On the Apple screen Watch displays reminders to close the task, the effect of completing it, and full list chosen habits.
It is curious that in the case of constant successful completion of the task, the program will offer to increase the load. For example, after I walked more than 5,000 steps a day for a week (one of the chosen habits), Streaks suggested increasing the load to 6,000.
Pros: convenient customizable interface and progress statistics with exponential percentage completion of each habit (in iPhone). Motivates to be better!
Minuses: the price of an app can scare you away, in the App Store you can find free analogues, which, unfortunately, are not so colorful and convenient.
2. Bring! shopping list
Download in iTunes: is free
What is the feature: Great free analogue the famous shopping list application "Buy a loaf".
Bring! shopping list has a minimalistic interface and allows you to create visual shopping lists, as well as synchronize lists with other users.
All products are divided into categories and visually presented in the form of cards, a long press on which allows you to add a description, as well as mark the number of required products. It is possible to make additional cards outside the presented list.
You can create and share shopping lists with family, colleagues or friends.
On the Apple Watch screen, the list is displayed as icons with descriptions. Clicking on each item "closes" the purchase. Managing such a list from a watch is easier and more convenient than holding a smartphone in your hands while shopping.
Pros: convenience and ease of use allow you to make grocery shopping as efficient as possible. No more endless texting from your spouse. Unlike "Buy a loaf!" The Swiss counterpart can be used absolutely free of charge.
Minuses: the absence of the Russian language, despite many requests in the App Store.
3. CARROT Weather
Download in iTunes: 379 rub.
What is the feature: A wonderful analogue of Gismeteo for those who are tired of the same type of boring weather forecasts.
Carrot Weather shows detailed weather information, sunrise/sunset times, visibility, humidity and pressure. But the main feature of the application is the sarcastic humor of the built-in robot and the flexible setting of information on the watch.
Unlike the built-in weather app, Carrot Weather allows you to choose the type of data that is displayed on the watch screen (temperature, humidity, feel-good temperature, cloudiness, chance of precipitation).
After a new update that arrived this week, Carrot Weather allows you to change the app icon (in iPhone) and perform more fine tuning information slots in AW.
Pros: nice visual customizable interface, many various options, excellent humor, the severity of which can be adjusted (not everyone may be satisfied when the program starts calling the user "meatbag").
Minuses: absence of the Russian language. “Eats” the watch battery, AW series 3 with Carrot Weather installed work instead of 3 days, only 2 days. High price+ paid subscription(!).
4. Yandex.Translate
Download in iTunes: is free
What is the feature: comfortable free translator from the famous Russian search engine.
Directly from the watch, you can dictate the text and get its instant translation.
The application on the iPhone allows you to download the necessary offline language pack, thanks to which you can translate without connecting to the network. Packet size - 20-80 MB.
Pros: simple, convenient, free. Saving traffic abroad is always nice!
Minuses: missing.
5. Just Press Record
Download in iTunes: 379 rub.
What is the feature: Ideal Solution to record voice memos on the go.
Surprisingly, Siri on the Apple Watch does not allow you to take voice notes, prompting you to open the corresponding application on the iPhone (why!). Therefore, an absolutely logical step is to install a convenient simple voice recorder Just Press Record, with which you can save important data (ideas, important thoughts) on the fly.
Turning on the voice recorder on the Apple Watch is carried out literally with one touch, it is possible to record in background. In this case, the data is automatically transferred to the iPhone.
Pros: simple and convenient. Recordings in iCloud are automatically synchronized with all devices in the account.
Minuses: price. It is not possible to change the name of records c help from Apple watch.
6. Streaks Workout
Download in iTunes: 299 rub.
What is the feature: Convenient home personal "trainer" for sports
In Streaks Workout you can find everything you need for daily sports: sets of exercises with algorithms, recommendations, statistics. Moreover, it is not necessary to go to the gym for this, almost all the assigned tasks can be performed at home.
On first launch, the user is prompted to select up to six various types exercises (push-ups, plank, squats, etc.). After that, it will be enough to indicate the duration of the classes (from 6 to 30 minutes) and the program will independently compile the entire training program, depending on the chosen preferences. It is also possible to create an individual workout.
Also impressions from everyday use Apple smart watch
Today it became known that the Apple Watch will go on official sale in Russia on July 31. Meanwhile, in some other countries, the device has been used for almost three months. Immediately before the release of Apple smartwatches and immediately after the appearance of the device on the shelves, there was a lot of noise: the watch became the most fashionable gadget of the season. But soon the wave of enthusiasm around this product subsided, and the first skeptical reviews appeared. Here, for example, Fortune is a selection of negative reviews from IT professionals. On the other hand, the mere fact of the appearance of such opinions does not mean at all that the product is bad. Rather, it means that the moment has come when nuances that eluded a cursory study of the device begin to emerge, and the first Apple users Watch already a holistic impression is formed, which can be both positive and negative.
By the way, stock market players also took the Apple Watch ambiguously. Below is a chart showing Apple's stock price over the past three months. It clearly shows the peak immediately after the start Apple sales Watch (April 27), but then the decline continues, and by the time of writing, the share price was almost at the same level as before the start of sales of watches.
But Apple does not stand still: at WWDC, the company new version operating system for watches: watchOS 2. Among other things, the possibility of creating native applications having access to all sensors and elements Apple controls watch. And how is this going on now? We decided to study the available applications for the Apple Watch (not all, of course, but the most revealing ones) and at the same time try to live with the watch a little longer than it was possible during the first test. (thanks to the store
for provided). You can find out our impressions from this article!
Applications
When the watch had just appeared on sale, a lot of announcements from various developers rained down. All announcements were in the spirit of “We have added Apple support Watch! And although the vast majority of these applications were very unsightly, there was a feeling (and, in general, true) great interest developers to the new platform. But it was, of course, premature to draw any conclusions. Now we can evaluate current situation and draw some conclusions on this basis.
Let's start with the fact that there are about a hundred applications for Apple Watch in the App Store Selection. Pretty little! Of course, not everything is included in the Selection. But here we are faced with the first problem: there is no rubrication in the watch app store through which one could select a section and see everything existing applications this rubric. That is, we either choose from hundreds of Collections applications, or use the search for applications, but here you will need to enter a word.
Apparently, the fact is that Apple does not yet want to give the opportunity to calculate the total number of applications. It can be assumed that after some time, rubrication (what is called "Rubrication" in the main App Store) will appear. But for now, we cannot, for example, see what games are available for the Apple Watch (besides short list out of 10 titles included in the Selection; half of them are paid).
The second point that is important to understand when installing applications for Apple Watch. standalone applications not yet available for hours. That is, you can install the application for the watch, but first the smartphone version of this application will be installed on the iPhone, and only after a few minutes the application will appear on the watch. You can delete the app on the watch, leaving only the smartphone version, but not vice versa.
Just in watchOS 2, watch apps will gain independence. But so far they are not just tied to smartphones, but, by by and large, are only external screen for them. Sometimes more successfully, sometimes less. Let's look at a few examples.
App in the Air
The Compilation app allows you to keep track of everything related to your flight, getting information directly to your watch. It works as follows. We open the smartphone application, look for the flight we need (the interface is ideally convenient), select it and then we get all the information already on the watch (although, of course, it will also come to the iPhone).
The watch screen will display all necessary information: flight number and status, check-in end time, airport terminal, landing time. If the gate is changed or there are any delays, you will receive an alert.
There is also a list of things to take, a to-do list and other nice additions. It is clear that all this functionality is available in the application itself, but it is at the airport that it can be very convenient to look not at the smartphone, but at the watch (when your hands are busy with things, and even the smartphone is hidden in some bag).
In general, the application is not outstanding ( we are talking about the version for the Apple Watch), but very useful.
contact info
The Contact Info application is made more original. Its idea is simple: you can enter your contact details into the smartphone application, and the watch will display a QR code, which can be considered a smartphone and immediately receive all the information in the address book.
That is, let's say you are asked for a telephone number at a conference, and you simply launch the application on your watch and raise your hand to the person who meets you. He only needs to read the QR code with a smartphone.
It turns out that the watch application in this case consists of a single screen (you enter and edit information using your smartphone). But it's not bad. Simplicity is what most watch app authors should aim for.
Uber
Uber followed the same path. When we launch the corresponding application on the watch, the search for the nearest cars immediately begins, after which you see a screen with one button: “Order”. And in the center of the screen, the time after which the nearest car can drive up is displayed.
Such minimalism has both pluses and minuses. The disadvantages, of course, include the impossibility of any order detailing. But, apparently, the creators of the application rightly considered that in some situations it is quite enough just to have the "Order" button, this is what people need in the first place.
tripadvisor
Another well-known international brand - TripAdvisor - did not pursue simplicity and decided to simply adapt the interface for the watch, while retaining the main functionality.
It turned out quite well, if you take the chosen concept for granted. But in practice, it turns out that there is no point in the application at all: when we need to decide which restaurant to go to, we can get up for a minute, get a smartphone and see everything there. It is much less convenient to do this on a watch than on a smartphone, and finding something on the go with the help of a watch is all the more problematic.
It turns out a paradoxical example: the interface itself seems to be successful, but it does not make life easier.
Games
Of course, the choice for the watch is not limited to the above applications, you can describe other programs, but we have chosen some of the most indicative precisely from the point of view of the demonstration options approach to building a watch application. It would be logical to follow the same path in the case of games, but ... as it turns out, here the imagination of developers works even worse. In fact, almost everyone uses the Apple Watch as nothing more than a mini-screen, with more or less success.
For example, here's another clone of Flappy Bird, which looks quite natural on the watch due to its simplicity - just make sure you click on the screen so that the bird doesn't fall and hit the pipes! And it doesn't matter whether the screen is large (like on a smartphone) or small (like on a watch). However, even here they managed to screw up a little: the bird got a strong inertia that changes the feeling of the game, and you need to click on the flap button, and not on the entire screen.
Here's another interesting example of a watch game app: Trivia Crack. Puzzles - in general, perhaps the most common genre now. In this case, it is also very conveniently implemented: we spin the drum, one of the categories falls out (or a crown that allows you to choose a category to your taste), then a question appears and four possible answers. If you answered correctly, the next move is yours, if not, then your opponent ( real person found automatically).
It is clear that all the same can be done on the iPhone, but it is worth recognizing that the developers of the application coped with the task of making the interface of Trivia Crack for watches quite convenient and usable. Real application- we stand in the subway at rush hour, when even a smartphone is not available, and play.
There is another type gaming applications: these are companions of large tablet games Brother in Arms 3 or Modern Combat 5 but it's not independent projects, but rather a way to quickly learn about the latest news from the world of your favorite games - for example, about the launch new promotion, some kind of raffle, etc.
In general, the situation with games on the Apple Watch is the main disappointment so far. The April issue featured a very interesting column by GAMETECH Editor-in-Chief Vitaly Kazunov about the gaming prospects of the Apple Watch. The main idea of the text is that a completely new type of game will appear for the watch, which will not require constant interaction with the screen, but will be able to use the user's geographic location, his activity parameters, and the like. I would like to believe that this will be the case. But for now, we see the dominance of simple puzzles that make us stare at a small screen and drain the battery. At the same time, there is no single reason why we cannot play the same games on a smartphone (well, except for the rush hour situation in the subway described above).
Apple Watch experience
What are our impressions of the Apple Watch in general? To what extent can this device "integrate" into our everyday life and what can be useful? Oddly enough, one of the most pleasant and frequently used features turned out to be Siri. To get an answer to your question (though only in the form of information on the screen), just make a long press on the wheel Digital Crown and say the question by bringing the watch to your mouth.
In addition to the obvious things like today's weather, Siri can even give you some unusual information information - like the temperature on Mars or the value of the shares of any company. You can also get some kind of route or get help from Wikipedia, and in a very convenient way.
If we are not talking about "test", but about real use, then first of all it is convenient when, before leaving the house, you, packing things, want to find out the weather for today on the go.
Second convenient moment- these are notifications about calls and messages in instant messengers / social networks. At the same time, after reading the new notification, you can open the feed latest notifications, which means they don't disappear.
But there is one strange flaw here. When a new notification arrives, your screen remains off. Therefore, you must first turn it on by pressing the Digital Crown, then press the screen to read the notification. So you can't just look at the screen. It also happens to be completely absurd: when the screen goes blank immediately after you open the notification. In general, the screen on the Apple Watch often goes out at the wrong time - apparently, the developers tried very hard to make sure that it did not burn once again, but they overdid it a little.
And yet, in general, the implementation of the notification function here is more successful than not. Of particular note is the very pleasant sensation of vibration when a notification arrives. It is different from those bracelets and watches that we have tested before. In Apple Watch, this vibration is more delicate, or something, but no less noticeable.
But the vaunted wheel Digital Crown, we never learned how to use (pressing, of course, does not count - we are only talking about its torsion). It is usually much easier to use touch screen than spin that little wheel. We did not find a scenario in which the use of the wheel would be unambiguously more convenient.
conclusions
Forecasts about the market fate of the Apple Watch changed rapidly: then everyone predicted that Apple would go to new market and will not leave competitors a chance, but at the same time will create a truly powerful smartwatch industry; then they began to say that the watch did not live up to expectations and Apple did not manage to explain why, in principle, this class of devices is needed.
After some time Apple use Watch, we are leaning towards something in between these two positions. On the one hand, it is premature to talk about victory here: this can be seen even in applications, which are few and whose quality is far from ideal. On the other hand, the device has very convenient and pleasant features, and it may well fit into the user's daily life. So far, it will not become indispensable and will not even give some fundamentally new experience, as it was, for example, with Google Glass. But if you have already bought an Apple Watch and have not yet received what you expected, do not rush to sell it. Perhaps, after the release of watchOS 2, the situation with applications will change dramatically in better side, and then the potential of this product - beautiful and pleasant - will be able to be fully revealed.
We plan to closely monitor the fate of this device and, of course, we will keep you informed!
TechRadar has unveiled a selection of the best Apple Watch apps of 2018. The editors of MacDigger chose the five most interesting and free programs.
A handy note-taking app. OneNote can be synced with account Microsoft user. This will help you edit documents on various devices. The program supports the Russian language.
An application that helps to stay in shape even for those who have almost no free time. Short training programs and series of exercises that do not require special preparation and warm-up. The user reports how much time they have, and Misfit creates an effective workout plan, even if it only lasts a minute.
smart timer Epicurious
Those who love to cook are familiar with situations when you constantly need to time yourself in order to perfectly assemble this or that dish. A smart timer can come to the rescue of cooks. The application contains a lot of recipes for English language and will tell you how long you need to keep chicken or steak of the desired roasting in the pan.
Night sky
An application for romantics and lovers of watching the stars. The program will tell about the constellations and celestial objects that can be observed in your region. And by purchasing an inexpensive subscription, you can enjoy world tours and see the stars of another hemisphere. The application supports Russian.
A distinctive feature of Apple Watch gadgets is the variety in the choice of applications, Apple is trying to make the accessory as useful and indispensable as possible. Not all programs are worth considering, but many help with daily tasks. Consider best apps for apple watch.
Programs for daily use
Let's start with the top apps for apple watch that will come in handy in daily use.
CARROT Weather
Carrot Weather is an application used to view the weather forecast. It can predict:
- time of sunrise and sunset;
- wind direction and speed;
- pressure;
- the amount of precipitation.
All data is placed on a small screen, you can see the weather for today and the next few days. There is a built-in robot that will cheer you up with various jokes.
Vine
Vine- interesting application to view directly from the screen apple watch short videos. You can add the videos you like to your favorites so that you can easily find them later. Of course, movies are more convenient to watch on big screen, on the smart watch a small extension, but they can be used, for example, when it's boring to queue at the store.
Fantastical 2
The Calendar program on the iPhone was created in order to make it important upcoming events. Fantastical 2 on the Apple Watch is designed for a similar purpose, but it will save the time a person spends getting their phone and fixing a meeting.
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BBC News
BBC News displays the most important news stories by category:
- Top news;
- most read;
- my news (favorite categories).
On the main screen there will be a brief announcement and an image, the article of interest can be downloaded to the iPhone.
Streaks
Streaks- desired application to form good habits. You can create goals, for example: drink tea, walk the dog, read a book, take a walk before bed. Since the information is on a smart watch, it is much faster to mark completed tasks and see what else is left.
Deliveries
The Deliveries program exists to monitor the location of a parcel from an online store. Each person has things to do, and sitting all day waiting for a courier is not comme il faut. This is where Deliveries saves, in real time on the map you can see the movement of the parcel. When the delivery is completed, a notification will be sent to the smart watch.
Travel Apps
Here are the apps for apple gadget watch, which you can not do without while traveling.
CityMapper
The program works in large cities, if the user went to one of them, it will be useful to install it. Among the features:
- route planning;
- displaying the estimated time of arrival of transport;
- notification of how many stops are left before the destination.
App in the air
App in the air is a good personal travel advisor. He gives valuable advice on how to make it easier to endure such a trip, remind you when it's time to stretch your neck. Also on the screen of the smart watch will be data on the time before landing. During the flight, you can observe over which cities the plane rushes.
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tripadvisor
The TripAdvisor app on Apple Watch is able to search for nearby places to eat, stay overnight, exchange currency, and have fun. In addition to the address on the display of the gadget, there will be images, distance, maps, and all this can be downloaded to an iPhone for a more detailed study.
Currency
currency- best converter currencies. Here, information is updated as quickly as possible if the course has changed. There is a built-in calculator, just specify the amount to be exchanged and the currency - and the result will be displayed in 5 seconds.
Healthy lifestyle
Let's look at applications from app store that help lead healthy lifestyle of life: monitor how long the sleep was, how many calories a person burned while jogging and kilometers covered per day.
7 Minute Workout Seven
7 Minute Workout "Seven" - great choice for daily workouts on the apple watch 2, information from the heart rate monitor, pedometer comes here, charts and statistics are built. There is also a ready-made system - a 7-month marathon aimed at strengthening all muscle groups.
Sleep++
Sleep++ is designed to monitor the duration and quality of sleep. All that is required from the user is to download the program and put the watch on his hand. The application, using the built-in sleep tracker in the morning, will show how many times a person woke up at night and how deep the phases were. The robot will reveal secrets that will help you relax better and feel great in the morning.
Applications Runtastic
For apple watch, there is a whole range of applications necessary for compiling the optimal load for training, health monitoring - Runtastic. Here are the main ones:
- Runtastic Steps;
- runtastic results;
- Runtastic Pro;
- Runtastic Butt Trainer.
Organizer
Let's see what apple watch programs are used to organize and store personal data and contacts.
Tomorrow Apple Watch will go on sale in Russia. For most third party developers three months since the launch of smartwatches in the first nine countries turned out to be too short to intelligently adapt their products to new platform. Nevertheless, there are already enough examples of applications on the Apple Watch, the creators of which understand the advantages of wearable devices - or do something that Apple itself has not yet done.
Calcbot
A calculator app on a smart watch, a reference to a watch from the past with a real calculator, it might seem obvious solution, but Apple's app doesn't have a Watch version. Calcbot- worthy alternative. He not only conducts the main arithmetic operations, but also converts different values to other units of measurement, and also calculates how much you need to tip. And most importantly, it works quickly: it is much more convenient to read something on it than to get the iPhone.
Evernote
Most powerful application for note-taking fits perfectly into the new platform. You can quickly view recent notes, create and say a new note, or find any note using voice search. This is suitable for those cases when you come up with an idea that is easier to say than write down, and you don’t have a smartphone at hand - and it helps to significantly speed up the creation of a note: after all, we usually speak faster than we write, and if anything, a note is always can be edited from another device.
lifeline
So far, the main game on the Apple Watch is an interactive version of the books in the Choose Your Own Adventure series, a text quest. You receive a message from a passenger spaceship, crashed. He miraculously survived and now completely relies on you. You make key decisions for the survivor - like whether to sleep near the reactor, from which he will receive a dose of radioactive radiation, or in another place on the ship, risking freezing. You can appreciate the excellent script created by one of the creators of Fables comics Dave Justus on iPhone, but on Apple watch game reveals itself for real: there is an unusual feeling of involvement in what is happening.
Musixmatch
An app that worked great on the iPhone is even more useful on the Apple Watch, given that individual playlists can be stored and played right on the watch, without a smartphone nearby. You launch a song, Musixmatch searches for it in its lyrics database and offers a kind of karaoke: the lines that the performer is singing or reading right now are highlighted. This is handy when you're listening to something new or you can't make out parts of your favorite tracks.
Overcast
Apple Watch doesn't have Apple's podcast app, but Overcast comes to the rescue. With it, you can control podcast playback as easily as music playback, as well as skip and speed up individual parts.
NYTimes
So far, The New York Times has felt the best short news format for wearable devices. Their Apple Watch app is a series of screens of recent big news, each articulated in one sentence. If you wish, you can view the details by scrolling down the screen, or save the news to read it later in the application on the iPhone. great way read important news in a minute.
