Bump is the simplest way to communicate with your friends on your Apple Watch. Share your Bump ID and add your friends. Tap them on the app, you’ve just sent a notification right to their wrists. It is the best way to stay in touch with your friends while using the Apple Watch outside without your iPhone on you.

The app is only available on Apple Watch, so you should search it from the App Store on the watch (not on your iPhone).

It gives you an ID so that you can quickly add your friends. After that, you can send your … Read More

Yelp is a helpful mobile phone app that can steer you to the right restaurants, stores, businesses, and activities around town. But it’s also a skilled app for your Apple Watch. Search for nearby restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and other spots to eat and drink. Tapping a particular place brings up directions, reviews, and other details.… Read More

With the MyFitnessPal app, you can track and record your food and water intake and calories consumed toward a goal of weight loss and a healthier lifestyle. You’ll first have to sign up for a free account and then enter some details about yourself, such as height, weight, and ideal weight.

On your Apple Watch, the app starts by displaying the number of calories, carbs, fat, and protein that you’ve eaten. At the next screen, you can keep track of how much water you drink. Swipe to the next screen to add the number of calories for each meal and snack.

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Offering a series of guided meditations, 10% Happier is designed to help calm your mind and body. The free iPhone version serves up several select meditations. To gain access to the full range, you’ll have to sign up for a $99.99-per-year subscription, though you can try before you buy with a free 7-day trial.

The Apple Watch version is more basic, but it doesn’t require you to open the iPhone version, so you can run it as a standalone app from your wrist. Each day the app provides a different meditation with a specific goal in mind. The meditation typically begins with … Read More

Using two-factor authentication is one way to better secure your website logins. And Authy can make the process easier by letting you authenticate on your Apple Watch.

First, you must enable two-factor authentication for each website you want to add to the app and choose the option to use an authenticator app. Using Authy on your iPhone, you then set up your accounts for each site by scanning a QR code or manually entering a key.

The app supports thousands of different sites and services, including Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and Amazon.

The next time you sign into one … Read More

Need a definition for a word on the fly? Turn to the handy Merriam-Webster Dictionary app. The Apple Watch version is simple but it gets the job done. Tap the “Get Definition” button and speak your word. Siri pops up to receive it and then serves up a definition.

You can swipe down the screen to view the entire definition, which can be brief or quite detailed depending on the word. You can also get definitions for phrases and other items that you’d find in the average dictionary. If you need more information, you can open the app on your iPhone, but … Read More

You can record a conversation or other audio using your iPhone’s built-in Voice Memos app. But if your iPhone isn’t handy, you can use your Apple Watch and turn to a free app called Voice Record Pro.

You can record audio directly through the app. Just press the record button. The app even displays a VU (Volume Unit) meter so you can monitor the volume of the audio. Press Stop when done. You can then play the recording from the Apple Watch app.

As another option, you can use the Apple Watch version as a remote to start and control an audio … Read More

You’ll find lots of fitness and exercise apps for the Apple Watch, but a free one to get you moving is Gymaholic. This app serves up a different routine for each day. Every routine contains a series of exercises, and you can add more workouts by sending them to your watch from the iPhone app.

On one day, you can focus on your chest, biceps, and triceps through a barbell bench press, a barbell curl, and a triceps pushdown. On another day, you can tone up your back, shoulder, and abs via a barbell press behind the neck, a crunch, and a … Read More

Controlling your iPhone camera from your Apple Watch can come in handy if you need to snap a photo remotely, and Moment – Pro Camera can do just that. From the Apple Watch app, you can snap a photo or shoot a video, switch between the front and rear camera, or set a timer to take a photo in 3 or 10 seconds.… Read More

Having trouble getting a good night’s sleep? For $2.99, AutoSleep Tracker can report not just on the quantity of your sleep hours but on their quality. Simply wear your Apple Watch to bed.

The app monitors and records your total time asleep, your wake time, and your restless time, along with each phase of sleep such as light sleep and REM sleep. The app also keeps track of your heart rate during the night.

The next morning, you can check the data in the watch app and the iPhone app to see how the night went. If you’d rather not wear your … Read More