Roundup: The best and most interesting third-party apps for your new Apple Watch

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in Apple Watch edited May 2015
With newly-delivered Apple Watch units now on the wrists of the lucky, users will undoubtedly be looking to try out the best launch-day apps for their latest purchase. AppleInsider offers a roundup of some prominent and essential launch-day apps, divided by category.

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B&H Photo





Amazon

Messaging & Social Networking

Twitter

WeChat





OkCupid Dating





Slack





Meetup

Fitness

Strava Running and Cycling





Misfit





RunKeeper





FitStar Yoga





Runtastic

Travel & Weather

Dark Sky





Transit





SPG: Starwood Hotels & Resorts





Uber





Expedia

Eating & Nutrition

Epicurious





Green Kitchen





Yummly





Postmates





NYT Cooking

Shopping & Restaurants

Foursquare





OpenTable





Chipotle





News & Utilities

Cufflink





Shazam





Calculator+





New York Times





Flipboard

Games

Runeblade





Trivia Crack





Spy Watch





Rules!





Watch Quest





Sports

theScore





ESPN





MLB At Bat





NBA Game Time





Yahoo Fantasy Sports

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 19
    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0

    Some look good, but looks like a lot of crap in there as well.

  • Reply 2 of 19
    adrayvenadrayven Posts: 460member
    Some of these are going to kill the battery.. from 18 hours down to 2 hours. lol

    Especially GAMES
  • Reply 3 of 19
    cpsrocpsro Posts: 3,198member

    TL;DR

    It's basically useless

  • Reply 4 of 19
    thismartythismarty Posts: 13member
    A Chipotle app that helps me shop at Chipotle made your Best list?

    The selection of day-one apps is *that* bad?
  • Reply 5 of 19
    ronstarkronstark Posts: 81member
    Thisi s mondo sad, folks. What we are seeing is the extremely limited capability of the instrument itself. And, there is nothing the instrument does that the iPhone doesn't do
    way better because of size, visibility, and all the other reasons we all know too well.

    I think what we are seeing is "the King's new clothes" all over again.

    Indeed the battery usage will diminish according to usage but I honestly cannot see playing a game on a wrist-based instrument. AND, how easy is the screen to see in broad daylight?!!?

    This is exceptionally disappointing.
  • Reply 6 of 19
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member
    Watchaware put up video of Jony Ive and Marc Newson at the Condé Nast Luxury Conference. It's easy to tell why Ive is never on stage at keynotes. Public speaking is clearly not his forte. But one thing I found interesting was his comment that ?Watch wasn't about trying to design a better mechanical watch or compete with mechanical watch brands but because they thought the wrist was a good place to bring technology to. Yes in a way Apple is competing for the same wrist but if you compare ?Watch to Android Wear competitors you can see they're the ones slavishly trying to copy traditional watches.

    http://watchaware.com/post/11182/video-jony-ive-and-marc-newson-on-the-apple-watch-with-suzy-menkes
  • Reply 7 of 19
    adonissmuadonissmu Posts: 1,776member

    I used my Equinox App and Starbucks App successfully today. I am SLAYYYED!

  • Reply 8 of 19
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member
    Here's a first impression from a MacRumors poster:

    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1872511
    [QUOTE]Whoa! I am SLAYED by this AppleWatch way more than I could've ever reasonably expected. I used it everywhere. To swipe in at the gym, at starbucks, in a cab and at dwayne reade. I could swipe through songs without lugging my phone out and I also was texting people seemlessly using Siri. Somehow she works better on the watch than she does the phone. [/QUOTE]
  • Reply 9 of 19
    rogifanrogifan Posts: 10,669member
    adonissmu wrote: »
    I used my Equinox App and Starbucks App successfully today. I am SLAYYYED!

    Haha I just posted your mini-review from MacRumors. :D
  • Reply 10 of 19
    freshmakerfreshmaker Posts: 532member

    That Pump Fakers baseball team is really impressive to get 10 HRs but only have 8 RBI

  • Reply 11 of 19
    iphoniaciphoniac Posts: 23member
    [URL=http://lark.com/?referer=ai_2]Lark Chat[/URL] works really well!
  • Reply 12 of 19
    fastasleepfastasleep Posts: 6,417member
    Thank the heavens I can finally have a calculator watch.
  • Reply 13 of 19
    mobiusmobius Posts: 380member
    fastasleep wrote: »
    Thank the heavens I can finally have a calculator watch.
    The Casio ones from the 80s were the dog's bollox! Mine lasted many years on the same battery before it died. I do believe Marty McFly and Doc Brown wore them too in the Back to the Future trilogies. :D

    It's funny - even though they went forwards in time to this year in the second movie, there's not a single Apple Watch to be seen. Plenty of in-car fax machines though! Haha
  • Reply 14 of 19
    iqatedoiqatedo Posts: 1,823member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mobius View Post





    The Casio ones from the 80s were the dog's bollox! Mine lasted many years on the same battery before it died. I do believe Marty McFly and Doc Brown wore them too in the Back to the Future trilogies. image



    It's funny - even though they went forwards in time to this year in the second movie, there's not a single Apple Watch to be seen. Plenty of in-car fax machines though! Haha



    The future is so hard this side of it, much easier from the other! (Signed doc Emm.)

  • Reply 15 of 19
    dr millmossdr millmoss Posts: 5,403member

    I counted 570 Apple Watch apps in the iTunes App Store, so I have a feeling that this grouping isn't necessarily the best or the most interesting.

  • Reply 16 of 19
    pagepagepagepage Posts: 1member
    Thanks for the review. I guess there are some apps missing. For me the watch is perfect for all kind of tracking apps. for example counters - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/count-plus/id985225422 or lifestyle tracker - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atracker-daily-task-time-tracking/id522008611 But most of the apps - esp. games - I tested are going to kill the battery.
  • Reply 17 of 19
    calicali Posts: 3,494member
    On the Watch anouncement article in September one of my complaints was that they announced things the iPhone could already do. Everyone flamed me for it and here we are.....

    I really hope this changes fast and I want Apple to succeed.
  • Reply 18 of 19
    calicali Posts: 3,494member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Rogifan View Post



    Watchaware put up video of Jony Ive and Marc Newson at the Condé Nast Luxury Conference. It's easy to tell why Ive is never on stage at keynotes. Public speaking is clearly not his forte. But one thing I found interesting was his comment that ?Watch wasn't about trying to design a better mechanical watch or compete with mechanical watch brands but because they thought the wrist was a good place to bring technology to. Yes in a way Apple is competing for the same wrist but if you compare ?Watch to Android Wear competitors you can see they're the ones slavishly trying to copy traditional watches.



    http://watchaware.com/post/11182/video-jony-ive-and-marc-newson-on-the-apple-watch-with-suzy-menkes



    The problem is, it looks EXACTLY like a traditional watch, which was a HUGE letdown for me coming from Apple.

     

    The crown just sealed it for me. Those have been on watches for over a century.

  • Reply 19 of 19
    dasanman69dasanman69 Posts: 13,002member
    cali wrote: »

    The problem is, it looks EXACTLY like a traditional watch, which was a HUGE letdown for me coming from Apple.

    The crown just sealed it for me. Those have been on watches for over a century.

    Sometimes the old way is the best way. I'm sure you still use buttons, and zippers to fasten your clothes.
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