I have the Pillow app and Just Press Record, so I guess for me it's 2 out of 10 must-have apps. Of course I have only a series 2 watch which is quite slow and it's primarily a fitness and notification device for me, Oh, yes, it does also give me the time every now and then, and I find it useful as a completely blind person to have Sunrise and Sunset added as a complication on my watch face, but that is supported natively and I actually have that set to autospeak and this way I for the first time keep track on a regular bases when it gets light and dark which of course sighted and partially sighted people take for granted.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2019 2:21 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: 10 Must-Have Apps for Your New Apple Watch, Mac World Hi Mark, As a as a non-watch owner who hopes to be a watch on her at some point, I am curious if you have tried many of these and how accessible they are. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 3, 2019, at 1:19 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > 10 must-have apps for your new Apple Watch > Take your little wrist computer to the next level with these great apps. > By Jason Cross, Staff Writer, Macworld Jan 18, 2019 > > The Apple Watch is great right out of the box, but you'll want to add a few > apps to really make it sing. Apple's wearable is a true marvel, especially > the Series 4, but you'll never know just how useful it can be if you don't > expand your horizons a bit. > When we think about the Apple Watch apps we just can't live without, these > are at the top of the list. Some are free, some are not, but every single > one is worth your while. > > Updated 1/18/2019: Thanks to a big update with a new interface, AutoSleep > now edges out Pillow as our favorite sleep tracking app. > > 1. > AutoSleep is our favorite app for adding automatic sleep tracking to the > Apple Watch. > If there's one major feature missing from the Apple Watch, it's automatic > sleep tracking. Fortunately, it's not that hard to add with an app like > AutoSleep or Pillow. Of those two, we think AutoSleep's new simpler > interface gives it the edge over Pillow. > Pillow is a little more full-featured (it can do some sleep tracking stuff > using just your phone), but you need to buy the $4.99 in-app purchase to > really make use of it. If all you care about is using your watch for sleep > tracking, AutoSleep is the cheaper option, and gives you data that's easier > to parse. > With either app, you'll have to do a bit of setup and calibration to get > good results, but it's worth it. Just charge your watch in the evening and > wear it to sleep-your battery will probably still last through the whole > next day. > AutoSleep ($2.99) > > 2. > Carrot Weather > Grailr LLC > Carrot Weather isn't free, but it's great. > There are plenty of good weather apps out there, many of which support Apple > Watch, but Carrot Weather may be our favorite. It combines excellent weather > forecasting (with data from Weather Underground or Dark Sky), lots of > customization, a funky Augmented Reality mode, and even achievements. The > snarky evil robot voice helps make weather fun. > Apple Watch support is especially robust, with several different > complications available and the ability to customize them in the app. Carrot > Weather was one of the first third-party apps to make use of the new corner > complications on Apple Watch Series 4, and it gives you a card on the Siri > watch face, too. > The only downside is that the app costs $4.99, and then for certain features > you have subscribe to a Premium Club membership for $0.49 a month or $3.99 a > year. The cost is to cover the increased API usage of its data sources for > features like precipitation warnings. > Carrot Weather ($4.99, in-app purchases) > > 3. > Shazam > Shazam > Apple hasn't done much with Shazam, but it's still the best song-ID service > around. > Shazam is the number one name in identifying music. I mean, it's so > associated with being able to "name that tune" that there's even a game show > with Jamie Foxx. > Apple bought Shazam in September and didn't do anything other than remove > ads from the app, which just makes it better. We figure the company has big > plans for the Shazam technology, but in the meantime, it's an excellent app > for your Apple Watch. Just tap that Shazam complication and the app > immediately loads up and starts listening. You can use the iPhone app to go > through the history of songs you've found and add them to Apple Music or > Spotify. > Having the ability to identify songs on your wrist makes you use it a lot > more than having to pull your phone out. > Shazam (free) > > 4. > PCalc Lite > TLA Systems Ltd. > How weird is it that the Apple Watch has no built-in calculator app? > It's almost weird that there's no calculator app built in to the Apple > Watch. Your iPhone has one, and calculator watches were sort of the first > "smart watches." > PCalc is our favorite advanced calculator app for iOS, and it comes with a > great Apple Watch app. It costs $10, but if all you want is to add a simple > calculator to your wrist, we suggest the free PCalc Lite. The advanced > features and customization of the paid version mostly just benefit iPhone > and iPad users. > PCalc Lite (free, in-app purchases) > > 5. > theScore > theScore > TheScore is the best free app to keep on top of your favorite teams. > If you're a sports fan, the Apple Watch is a great device for keeping > up-to-date on the latest news and scores. And theScore app is our favorite > way to do it. Totally free and completely customizable, the app will keep > you up to date with news and score for all of your favorite teams, whether > you follow the pros or amateurs. > You can see in-game action, plays, and of course, score updates as games are > going on, as well as check out upcoming games right on your wrist. if you > can't be in front of the TV, it's the next best thing. > theScore (free) > > 6. > Things > Cultured Code > It seems crazy to pay $10 for a task manager app, until you use it and it > changes you life. > Things is one of the most well-received task managers around, and it's easy > to see why. It's attractive, simple, clear, and easy to use. It does what > any good task manager should: make it easy to jot down a new task, clear > what it is you have to do today, and it stays out of your way the rest of > the time. It's an Apple Design Award winner, and it shows. > Things on the Apple Watch is great. Quickly add a to-do item to organize > later on your iPhone. Look at today's tasks, check off items as you do them, > or postpone them for later with just a couple taps. It supports the Siri > watch face, which is the perfect place to get daily task reminders. > Things isn't cheap. At $9.99, it's one of the more expensive iPhone apps of > its type. But a really good task manager will save you time and help you get > more done, without feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. That's worth the > price of a couple cups of coffee. > Things 3 ($9.99) > > 7. > Just Press Record > Open Planet Software > You'd be surprised how useful it is to have a cloud-synced pocket recorder > on your watch. > It's an app where you press a button and it starts recording, press it again > and it stops. And for this you'll pay $4.99? > Yes, yes you will, because Just Press Record is awesome. It's lightweight, > fast, reliable, and powerful. It'll transcribe speech to text in over 30 > languages. It syncs to iCloud. You can record super high quality from > external microphones. > And Apple Watch makes it even better. Tap its complication and it launches > and starts recording immediately, so you never miss a beat. It can record > directly to the watch even when your phone isn't around (it'll sync up > later). Adjust volume with the digital crown. Start recordings with Siri. > Playback recordings through AirPods or your watch speaker. > You just don't realize how useful a really well made one-touch recording > feature is until you have it. > Just Press Record ($4.99) > > 8. > Citymapper > Citymapper Limited > If you live in one of Citymapper's supported cities, it is a must-have app. > Citymapper is an absolutely amazing transit app. It gives you bus and subway > times, alerts you to service outages, helps you plot trips, and so much > more. It works by grabbing public data feeds from dozens of city transit > agencies. It's won all kinds of App of the Year awards, and for good reason. > On Apple Watch it's even better. With a glance at your wrist you can see > where to go next, which bus or train to get on, and when it's coming. It can > be hard to fiddle with your phone on crowded transit, but a glance at your > wrist can show you what stop you're supposed to get off at. > The downside to Citymapper is that, since it relies on public transit data, > its only available in a couple dozen cities. It's perfect if you live in, or > are traveling to, a huge metropolitan area, but not of much use to anyone > else. > Citymapper (free) > > 9. > iHeartRadio > iHeartMedia > If you want to listen to FM/AM radio on your phone/watch, iHeartRadio is a > great place to start. > You certainly don't need to download an extra app to enjoy streaming music > or podcasts, though iHeartRadio does a fine job with both of those. The real > benefit of the app is its library of thousands of global FM and AM radio > streams, including sports stations like ESPN Radio and Fox Sports. > Of course, iHeartRadio offers a lot more. There are tons of popular > podcasts, artist and genre stations, and scores of playlists. It's all free > and ad-supported, but you can subscribe to iHeartRadio Plus or iHeartRadio > All Access to get an ad-free experience with unlimited skips and the ability > to save local tracks for offline playback. > iHeartRadio (free, in-app purchases) > > 10. > Night Sky > iCandi Apps > Your Apple Watch can be a surprisingly useful astronomy tool. > Night Sky is one of our favorite iPhone and iPad apps. If you've ever looked > up and wondered "what star or planet is that?" then Night Sky is for you. It > does so much more, too. There are several slick AR modes, notifications for > watching the international space station fly overhead, Siri Shortcuts. you > don't have to be an astronomy fan to fall in love with this app. > You might not think a sky chart on your watch would be useful, but you'd be > wrong. Just raise your wrist to the sky and move it around to quickly find > and identify objects in the sky. When your watch is down, it turns into a > sort of "sky compass" that points you in the direction of stuff worth > looking at. It's almost like magic. > Night Sky (free, in-app purchases) > > Original Article at: > https://www.macworld.com/article/3328398/iphone-ipad/10-must-have-apps-for-y > our-new-apple-watch.html > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. 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