On today’s podcast:
- Apple Watch shipping notices were sent out to a good number of early pre-order customers today
- Apple’s Watch App Store has launched with over 3,000 apps already available
- It appears that the planned Comcast / Time Warner merger may be dropped
- Apple confirmed that monaural (mono) audio is coming to the Apple Watch, a boon for people deaf or hard of hearing in one ear
- The new One Drop app seeks to improve life for those with diabetes
- Recent Apple World Today interviewee Laura Legendary has posted the first part of her series on the Watch’s fashion appeal from an accessibility perspective
- Microsoft has added Apple Watch support to PowerPoint for iOS
See the full script of today’s show (with links) below.
The Apple Watch is on its way to customers who, like me, are anxiously awaiting the arrival of Apple’s next breakthrough device. The debut of the new hardware also brings with it a fresh round of innovation in the App Store as Apple opened up the Watch for developers to utilize in their apps.
In the months since the Watch’s annoucnemnt, developers worldwide have been thinking creatively about the device and how it can be used to enhance the lives of millions of customers who will be wearing the device on their wrist. Here are some of the early Watch apps that are the culmination of this creative coding. Each app one listed below will be available for you to download and check out as soon as that Watch is up and running on your wrist.
Communication
- Slack [Free]
- Yo [Free]
- Line [Free]
- TL;DR Email [Free]
- Voxer Walkie Talkie Messenger [Free]
- WeChat [Free]
Education
- Curious [Free with IAP]
- Star Walk™ – 5 Stars Astronomy Guide to the Night Sky Map & Planets [$2.99]
- ChoreMonster [Free]
- Sky Live™ – Stargazing & Weather Forecast to View Clear Night Sky [$0.99 with IAP]
Entertainment
- Fandango [Free]
- Movist [$1.99]
- After Credits [Free]
- On Now [Free]
- VLC Remote [$4.99]
Finance
- Robinhood [Free with IAP]
- Pennies – Personal Money, Budget & Finance Manager [$2.99]
- StockMaster [Free with IAP]
- Mint: Money Manager, Budget & Personal Finance [Free]
- MoneyCoach [Free with IAP]
Food & Drinks
- Zomato – Food & Restaurant Finder [Free]
- Yummly Recipes & Grocery Shopping List [Free]
- OpenTable [Free]
- Starbucks [Free]
- Green Kitchen [$4.99]
- Epicurious [Free]
Health & Fitness
- Runtime – Simple Run Tracking [Free with IAP]
- Pedometer++ [Free with IAP]
- Map My Run+ [$0.99 with IAP]
- Lifesum [Free]
- Human [Free]
- Pocket Yoga [$2.99 with IAP]
- Runtastic [Free]
- Runtastic Six Pack: Abs Trainer, Exercises & Custom Workouts [Free with IAP]
- Runtastic Butt Trainer, Exercises & Quick Workout [Free with IAP]
- 7 Minute Workout [Free with IAP]
- RunKeeper – GPS Running, Walk, Cycling, Workout and Weight Tracker [Free with IAP]
- Clue-Period Tracker [Free]
- CARROT Fit [$2.99]
- Strava Running Cycling GPS [Free with IAP]
- Vima Run [Free with IAP]
- MyPlate Calorie Tracker by LIVESTRONG.COMe [Free with IAP]
Games
- Trivia Crack [Free with IAP]
- Rules! [$2.99]
- LetterPad [Free with IAP]
- Spell Seeker Pro [$1.99]
- Real Racing 3 [Free with IAP]
Music
- Pro Metronome [Free with IAP]
- Musixmatch [Free with IAP]
- Shazam [Free]
- TuneIn Radio Pro [$9.99 with IAP]
- Pandora Radio [Free with IAP]
- VOX Player [Free with IAP]
- iHeartRadio [Free]
Lifestyle
- Day One (Journal / Notes / Diary) [$4.99]
- Buy Me a Pie! – Grocery Shopping List Free [Free with IAP]
- Roomie Remote – Universal Remote Control [$9.99 with IAP]
- ShopSavvy Barcode Scanner, Price Checker, QR Code Reader and Sale Search [Free]
- Ebates: Cash Back, Daily Discount Shopping, Online Deals, Offers & Coupons for Stores [Free]
- Etsy [Free]
- Target [Free]
- Porsche Car [Free]
Location & Maps / Navigation
- ETA – your GPS driving assistant for travel times and directions [$1.99]
- Homing Beacon – Pin Drop GPS [Free]
- Yelp [Free]
- Roadtrippers [Free]
- Foursquare [Free]
- Gaia GPS [$19.99 with IAP]
- Topo Maps+ [Free with IAP]
- SeaNav US – HD Marine Navigation with NOAA Nautical Charts [$19.99 with IAP]
News
- Instapaper [Free]
- Overcast [Free with IAP]
- Flipboard [Free]
- Buzzfeed[Free]
- NPR One [Free]
- CNN [Free]
- NYTimes [Free with IAP]
- Circa News [Free]
Photography
- Hydra – Amazing Photography [$4.99]
- ProCamera 8 + HDR [$3.99 with IAP]
- Heyday – The Automatic Photo Journal: Transform Your Camera Roll into a Collection of Memories [Free]
- Camera Plus: Snap Macro Photos & Take The Best Selfies with AirSnap [$1.99 with IAP]
- AlienSky-Space Camera [$2.99 with IAP]
Productivity
- Things [$9.99]
- Drafts 4 [$9.99]
- Do Button by IFTTT [Free]
- Index Card for iPhone [$0.99]
- Due [$4.99]
- Workflow [$2.99]
- Apple KeyNote [$9.99]
- Microsoft PowerPoint [Free]
- Tally 2 [Free with IAP]
- Trello [Free]
- Microsoft OneNote [Free]
- 24me [Free]
- Up Next [$4.99]
- Adobe Creative Cloud [Free]
- Clear tasks manager [$4.99]
- Teleprompt+ 3 [$24.99]
- Lockdown – Better two-factor authentication [$3.99]
- Speaky – Text & Article Voice Reader [$3.99]
- WhereNotes [Free]
Reference
- Dictionary.com Dictionary & Thesaurus [Free with IAP]
- Ancestry [Free]
Social
- Instagram [Free]
- Twitter [Free]
- Facebook [Free]
- Weibo [Free]
- Pinterest [Free]
- Twitterrific [Free with IAP]
- Behance [Free]
- OkCupid [Free]
- DingBel [Free]
- 8 – Sticker Messenger [Free]
Sports
- ESPN [Free]
- MLB At Bat [Free with IAP]
- Team Stream [Free]
- Yahoo Fantasy Sports [Free]
- Gametime-sports tickets delivered to your phone [Free]
- NBA Game Time [Free with IAP]
- theScore [Free]
- Fun Golf GPS 3D [Free with IAP]
- Golfshot [Free with IAP]
Travel and Transportation
- Citymapper [Free]
- Hotel Tonight [Free]
- Uber [Free]
- Tripit [$0.99 with IAP]
- Expedia [Free]
- American Airlines [Free]
- Recalibrate [$0.99]
- TripAdvisor [Free]
- Boat Beacon – AIS Marine Navigation [$9.99]
- Boat Watch [Free with in-app purchases]
Utilities
- 1Password [Free with IAP]
- Deliveries: a package tracker [$4.99]
- Tipy Calc – Watch Tip Calculator [$0.99]
- Calcy Calc – Watch Calculator [$0.99]
- Calcbot [Free]
- Numerics – Dashboards to visualize your numbers [Free with IAP]
- Hours Tracker [$8.99]
- Knock [$3.99]
- oneID [Free]
- DataMan Next [$1.99]
- WDGTS [Free with IAP]
- Writing Aid [$0.99]
- Adobe Color CC [Free]
Weather
- Weather Live [$1.99]
- Weather Underground [Free with IAP]
- Dark Sky [$3.99]
- Yahoo Weather [Free]
- AccuWeather [Free with IAP]
- CARROT Weather [$2.99]
And even more apps!
Developers are equipping their apps with Watch support at a frenzied pace with new apps debuting every day. With so many apps, we likely missed some notable titles. If you know of any Apple Watch apps that deserve a mention, please share them in the comments!
