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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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