90 MACWORLD OCTOBER 2019
FEATURE 10 BEST APPLE WATCH COMPLICATIONSYou can have anywhere from one to eight
complications on the tiny screen depend-
ing on the watch face (or watch), which
makes it easy for you to figure out what
the weather’s like outside, when your next
appointment is, or even translate a ques-
tion into another language. A good Apple
Watch app doesn’t necessarily have a
good complication, although there’s a lot
of overlap (go.macworld.com/ovlp).
A good complication relays enough
information that you won’t even need to
open the app. If you do, it’ll get right to
business without requiring any other steps.
These are the complications that have the
best chance of making your Apple Watch
experience less, well, complicated.
- DARK SKY
Price: $3.99 at go.macworld.com/dsky
Apple’s native Weather app kind of sucks,
so you should use a good third-party
alternative like Dark Sky. It’s beautiful, it’s
eerily precise about predictions, and it’s
got a fantastic Apple Watch complication.
In its large form, it tells you the current
temperature, today’s highs and lows, and
when the sun will set.
In its smaller form, it shows you an icon
for the weather and the current temperature.
And you get all this with a single purchase.
Carrot Weather (go.macworld.com/cart) does
a good job, too (especially if you like some
humor), but you’ll have to pay extra for the
Apple Watch complication.- iTRANSLATE
Price: $4.99 subscription at
go.macworld.com/itrn
Traveling to a foreign country? Having the
San Francisco doesn’t really have interesting
weather, so I don’t have anything more
exciting to show.DON’T BE SCARED BY THE WORD COMPLICATION.
The ones you find on the Apple Watch can make your life much
simpler, as they’re basically bite-sized versions of the full apps you
normally open through the home screen grid.