APPS SPECIAL..... Best Apple Watch apps for your smartwatch

Best Apple Watch apps for your smartwatch





The Apple Watch has now been superseded by the Apple Watch 2, and yet the smart watches are seeing their true potential following the Watch OS 3 launch. The first question we hear from a new Apple Watch owner is, “Well, what apps should I download first?“ To make answering that query easier, here is a list of best Apple Watch apps:

  

Translator Free

Micros of t Translator is the closest we have come to the Babel Fish of Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy -a fish you stuck in your ear to translate the universe's many languages. Translator sits on your wrist rather than in your ear canal, but it does the same thing.Speak into your watch and you'll see the translation, and it remembers recent translations on Watch or phone as well. You can also pin translations for instant access to essential words or phrases.

Sleep++ Free

If you don't have a dedicated fitness tracker but fancy being able to track your sleep patterns, Sleep++ can help. It turns your Watch into a sleep monitor, using its motion detection to track your twists and turns while asleep. Your sleep is broken into blocks according to quality and movement, so you can see whether you're restless at particular times.

Twitterrific 5

$3.99 The Icon factory's Twitterrific 5 is one of the best thir dparty Twitter apps around, and its Apple Watch app does a good job of turning the Twitter into something more manageable and useful. You can set notifications to let you know of new replies, mentions, retweets, favourites or direct messages, force-press to dictate new tweets via Siri, and track your Twitter stats in real-time.

CARROT Weather $4.99

CARROT Weather is sassy and uses the same weather data as the Dark Sky app, but presents it rather differently: a typical update might say “It's a beautiful, sunny day!“ and then add, “Ha ha, just kidding. It's raining.“ You'll either find this highly amusing or intensely annoying. It also has radar and satellite weather maps, and forecasts for right now, the next 24 hours and the next seven days.

Just Press Record Free

A useful thing about the Apple Watch is that it enables you to do things without having to take your phone out of your pocket or bag.Just Press Record brings that handiness to voice recording.The phone app can transcribe your recording to turn it into text -which means your recordings become searchable by keyword.

Fantastical 2 Free

Getting Fantastical 2 up and r unning on your watch can be time consuming, but it's worth it: one of the best iPhone calendar apps around. You can add it as a complication, which means you'll see details of your schedule right there in the watch face. You can choose from events, calendars, reminders and lists, include a map of the event location, show end times and specify how reminders should appear.

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