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Tinker with


your timepiece


A handy app for any
Android user, IFTTT is
an automation tool
that can greatly
enhance your smartwatch’s
features – from using it to turn the
lights off in your home, to silencing
your phone while it’s still in your
pocket, to receiving alerts from
your favourite social networks.

IFTTT Price Free


Your smartwatch’s
default settings menu
is limited to controlling
screen brightness,
toggling airplane mode and so on.
Memory Info for Wear allows you
to dig deeper into the stats to
show how much of that 4GB
storage you’re using, as well as
RAMandCPUusage.

Memory Info
for Wear Price Free + IAPs

Create your own
custom clock faces
with the Watch Maker
app on a phone or
tablet, then view them on your
smartwatch. As well as developer
tools such as adding text effects
and animations to your watch face,
you can add widgets for your
calendar and the weather.

Watch Maker
Price Free + IAPs

This is actually for
your phone, but
allows you to manage
all of your smartwatch
apps. Offering more detail than
the offi cial Android Wear app, you
can see what permissions each
app is actually using on your
wearable and how much storage
spacetheyaretakingup.

Wear App Manager
Price £0.60/$0.99

If IFTTT is too
simplistic, try Toggle.
It allows you to switch
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and
other system settings on and off
with a tap. For those of you who
already use the automation tool
Tasker to control features on your
phone, Toggle makes it easy to
import tasks and run ActionSets
using Google Now.

Toggle Price Free


Path


Talk


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A great way to quickly
communicate via Android
Wear, you can receive
text messages, photos,
maps and emoji-like stickers through
Path Talk. You can also dictate
responses via Google Now or – if in a
hurry – tap ‘Got It’ to let your friends
know you’ve seen their messages.
Price Free + IAPs

Formerly known as
AllTheCooks, this free
download serves up
recipes on your wrist.
ted for a multi-device experience,
pad Recipes is designed to
se the cooking social network
our phone; then, rather than get
main device dirty, follow the
uctions on your watch. All you
to do is tap the ‘Open on Watch’
on in the main app and it
ches automatically.
ery step of your online recipe
it into easily glanceable
s. But to save on swiping, at

the end of that list of steps, jump
back to the beginning with a clearly
marked button.
Cooking is all about getting your
timing right, so tap any suggested
cooking times that are highlighted in
blue and Cookpad will set a
timer to remind you.
Price Free

Yo is an app that only
allows users to send a
message that reads ‘yo’
to one another. This
might sound ridiculous, but what
many fail to realise is that Yo is not a
messaging app but a notifi cation
tool. As well as receiving ‘Yos’ from
individuals – for instance, you can
quickly buzz friends to say you’re
nearby – you can subscribe to alerts.

get a Yo when your favourite
team scores, a Yo when a
Starbucks is near your location,
or even when a new case of
Ebola is diagnosed. Images and
links that you’ve copied to your
phone can also be shared via Yo
when you long-press on a
contact’s name. This so-called
‘zero character communication
tool’ lends itself very well to
your smartwatch, where voice
dictation for text messages
often feels awkward –
especially in public.
Price Free

Yo


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