Stuff - UK (2020-02)

100 BEST APPS

Turns out that thing on your

wrist is good for far more than

just telling the time, as these

tiny apps underline

GOOGLE PAY

This one might be

obvious, but having

Google Pay ready

and waiting on your

wrist is ultra-useful

when you’ve got

your hands full.

Contactless

payment at

public transport

terminals, shop

tills, bars and even

the gym vending

machine makes

this a Wear OS

must-have

provided your

watch has NFC.

£free / Wear OS

WEAR

GESTURE

LAUNCHER

Like filling your

smartwatch with

apps like a Hanoi

scooter rider loads

up livestock? Here

you can tap on the

right side of your

touchscreen and

draw gestures to

launch an app. Add

different gestures

for different apps to

shortcut your way

to what you want

without tapping

the crown to death.

£free / Wear OS

WHEN DO

It’s too easy to
forget important
stuff way off in the
future. This app lets
you quickly define
an event’s date and
name, give it an
icon, and then squirt
the result into a
Complication. Once
that’s done, you’ll
spot it whenever
you check the
time, reminding
you of a future
day of bliss – or
an anniversary you
mustn’t overlook.
99p / watchOS

START WITH YOGA

Maybe you like the idea of yoga,

but aren’t so keen on heading

to a session where other people

can effortlessly tie themselves

in knots but you can barely

touch your knees. This app has

ten routines, and serves pictures

to your wrist showing you what

to do, along with providing a

heart-rate monitor to prove

you’re still alive.

£2.99 / watchOS

LIFESUM

A stripped-back version of the

food-logging Android phone

app, Lifesum helps you keep

tabs on what you’re shoving

down your cakehole (even

if it actually is cake). Choose

your breakfast, lunch, snack

or dinner, select the size of

the portion and correlate with

the approximate number of

calories. Mmm, cake...

£free (IAPs) / Wear OS

This one more or

less puts Asteroids

on your wrist. Your

spaceship helpfully

moves and shoots

on its own, and you

twiddle the Digital

Crown to steer.

You must blow the

rocks to bits before

they crush you,

grab power-ups,

and occasionally

pause to marvel at

all this being on your

wrist. Pac-Man

next, please!

£1.99 / watchOS

WEAR

IT WELL

ASTEROID

COMMANDO