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Android Wear is still an

operating system in its

infancy, so has its kinks.

If you don’t launch an

app using your voice, it involves l t

of digging around in the settings

Until Google solves this problem

installing Wear Mini Launcher al

you to quickly open an app from

anywhere. You can also access

settings with a double swipe ge

making it simple to adjust the

brightness of your watch’s displ

the ring mode of your handheld

Using the app on your phone, it’

to customise both the look and

the Wear Mini Launcher. You ca

change everything from the icon size

to the app drawer’s position on your

smartwatch screen.

Price Free + IAPs

The idea of checking your

ATM to see how much

money is in your bank is

so 20th Century. Level

Money displays how much spendable

cash you have for the day, according

to your preset budget, and receive

notifi cations for every transaction you

make. However, the future of fi nance

is currently limited to the US – the

wider world will have to wait.

Price Free

While the Play Music app

has recently been

updated for deeper

Android Wear integration,

we actually prefer this premium

download. Music Boss offers a much

deeper level of control, integrating

with a variety of different apps. This

makes it easy to switch from playing

music through Spotify to listening to

podcasts through Player FM or to

Audible audiobooks over the course

of a day, all the time using the Music

Boss controller. It even works with

other forms of media, allowing you

to adjust the volume of your TV when

you’re watching YouTube or Netfl ix

via your Chromecast.

You can also tweak the media screen

settings right in the Wear app. This

includes screen dimming, timeout,

night mode and more. Received an

SMS, email or other notifi cation? No

problem: palm the screen to read it,

or confi gure Music Boss to auto-close

when notifi cations are received.

Price £1.20/$1.

Music Boss

integrates with a

variety of music

and media apps

Lifestyle

must-haves

The popular dating

app’s simple gesture

controls carry across

to the Wear version.

Swipe right to like or left to pass on

people near you, just as you would

on your phone. You can also send

messages and view profi les from

notifications, and say “Start

Tinder”toopentheapp.

Tinder

Price Free

Rather than constantly

fi ddling with your

phone to check the

scores of the big

game, get regular updates with a

fl ick of your wrist. The Sports

Republic app notifi es you of the

top stories about your favourite

teams, as you’ve defined them in

themainphoneapp.

Sports Republic

Price Free + IAPs

Talk about ‘fast food’:

you can order a pizza

in 20 seconds using

Eat24. Or rather, you

can only re-order dishes, as the

Wear app only allows you to

select from takeaway restaurants

you’ve bought from before. Sadly,

Eat24 is also limited to the US.

Eat24 Food

Delivery &Takeout

Price Free

Android Wear includes

basic weather

updates via Google

Now, but 1Weather gives more

detailed forecasts. As well as

regular notifi cations, 1Weather

offers severe weather alerts and

bothadailyandfour-dayoutlook.

1Weather: Widget

Forecast Radar

Price Free + IAPs

While we’re still

waiting for the big

social networks to

launch offi cial Android

Wear apps, that’s no reason why

you should have to get your phone

out of your pocket to share your

thoughts on Twitter. A free

download, Bunting allows you to

dictate your tweets by speaking

into your watch using Google Now.

Bunting Price Free

Evernote

Beyond receiving

notifi cations and taking

down new notes by voice,

the app lets you browse

your existing notes by

category and cross off

to-do list items.

Price Free + IAPs

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