Have you linked your Android Wear smartwatch to your smartphone? Then you notice that many Google apps suddenly show their information on your watch screen. But you can install multiple apps on your smartphone that work with your watch.
Unlike other smart devices, you don't install apps for your Android Wear smartwatch directly on your watch, but on your paired Android smartphone. The app then ensures that the functions become available on your watch. We have collected 10 useful apps for you that give your smartwatch more functionality! Also read: LG G Watch R - The most beautiful smartwatch of the moment
Android Wear
You may already have the Android Wear app installed on your Android. This app is necessary to pair your smartwatch with your phone. It's a handy app to keep on hand. You can check the connection status between both devices, but you also manage which apps on your smartphone can chat with your watch.
Android Wear is the app that lets your smartphone chat with your Android Wear watch.
1Weather
One of the most enjoyable weather forecast applications for Android is 1Weather. If you also use a smartwatch, you will notice that 1Weather also shows the weather forecast on your watch. Normally, Google does this itself, but 1Weather's prediction is a lot more extensive. Of course you see the current outside temperature and the chance of precipitation, but if you request more information you will also see the detailed weather forecast for the next 24 hours and the forecast for the coming days.
Netflix
In order to benefit from Netflix on your smartwatch, you also need a Chromecast in addition to a smart watch and an Android device. When you stream a movie or series from Netflix to your Chromecast, the clock on your watch suddenly changes. You will see an image of the video you are watching, but also a button to pause and resume Netflix. Useful!
Google Fit
In terms of functionality, Google Fit cannot tie the laces of apps like Runkeeper or Moves. Google Fit keeps track of how much you move and how often you cycle, run and walk. The app recognizes it. The Google Fit app shows your daily progress on your watch. Some smartwatches also have a built-in heart rate monitor, which you can also control via Google Fit.
IFTTT
With IFTTT (If This Then That) you connect all your connected devices and internet services. You can read exactly how it works on our website. But with the IFTTT app on your smartphone you have an extra channel: your smartwatch. For example, you can receive notifications of events (for example, when rain is forecast, when someone tags you on Facebook, or when a Steam game is on sale). You tie everything together and automate with recipes. The way to make your smartwatch really smart.
When you receive a WhatsApp message on your smartphone, you will see it on your smartwatch. It is also possible to read back part of the conversation. That's useful, but not very exciting. What's nicer is that you can also respond to WhatsApp messages directly from your watch. You do not do this with a keyboard, but with speech recognition. Your watch converts your recorded message into text, which it sends to WhatsApp on your phone. This way you don't have to take your phone out of your pocket when you get an app.
Tinder
Tinder on your watch. The only answer to the question why? is probably because it can. It is of little use to you, but you can continue the meat inspection on your smartwatch via the app. Drag pictures that appear on the watch screen to the left or right to approve or reject them, and when you have a match, continue your decorating skills via the chat on your smartphone.
Meat inspection on your watch with Tinder.
Wear Interval Timer
If you regularly do interval training, where you give 100 percent a set time, take it easy and then go full again, you are constantly messing around with a stopwatch, telephone or an old-fashioned watch. A smartwatch and the Wear Interval Timer app make it all a lot easier. First indicate in the app on your smartphone how your interval training should be done. Then start the timer on your smartphone. Not only is your progress conveniently displayed, you can also pause and resume your training with a tap on the screen. When your interval is about to start (or stop) you will be notified with short vibrations from your watch.
ASUS Remote Camera
This camera app allows you to control your phone's camera with your watch. The image that the camera captures is displayed on your watch, just tap the screen and your smartphone takes a photo. More convenient than a self-timer for your phone camera. But also useful, for example, if you want to take a look behind the cupboard if you have dropped something there. You see everything your camera sees on your watch!
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Wear Mini Launcher
As you install more apps for your Android Wear smartwatch, it becomes more and more tedious to go to the menu and launch your app on your watch. With Wear Mini Launcher you get a handy overview (a bit similar to Android's App Drawer), from which you can quickly start all apps. You can slide this overview in from the left.
