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underground times, alerts you to
service outages, helps you plot
trips, and so much more. It works
by grabbing public data feeds from
dozens of city transit agencies.
It’s won all kinds of App of the Year
awards, and for good reason.
On Apple Watch it’s even better.
With a glance at your wrist you can
see where to go next, which bus
or train to get on, and when it’s
coming. It can be hard to fiddle with
your phone on crowded transit, but
a glance at your wrist can show you
what stop you’re supposed to get
off at.
The downside to Citymapper
is that, since it relies on public
transport data, it’s only available in
a couple dozen cities. It’s perfect if
you live in, or are traveling to, a huge
Spotify can stream directly from your watch, no iPhone needed.
metropolitan area, but not of much
use to anyone else.
- NIGHT SKY
Price: Free (in-app purchases) from
fave.co/2KvreQo
Night Sky is one of our favourite
iPhone and iPad apps. If you’ve ever
looked up and wondered “what star
or planet is that?”, then Night Sky
is for you. It does so much more,
too. There are several slick AR
modes, notifications for watching
the international space station fly
overhead, Siri Shortcuts... you don’t
have to be an astronomy fan to fall in
love with this app.
You might not think a sky chart on
your watch would be useful, but you’d
be wrong. Just raise your wrist to the
March 2021 • Macworld 87
underground times, alerts you to
service outages, helps you plot
trips, and so much more. It works
by grabbing public data feeds from
dozens of city transit agencies.
It’s won all kinds of App of the Year
awards, and for good reason.
On Apple Watch it’s even better.
With a glance at your wrist you can
see where to go next, which bus
or train to get on, and when it’s
coming. It can be hard to fiddle with
your phone on crowded transit, but
a glance at your wrist can show you
what stop you’re supposed to get
off at.
The downside to Citymapper
is that, since it relies on public
transport data, it’s only available in
a couple dozen cities. It’s perfect if
you live in, or are traveling to, a huge
Spotify can stream directly from your watch, no iPhone needed.
metropolitan area, but not of much
use to anyone else.
- NIGHT SKY
Price: Free (in-app purchases) from
fave.co/2KvreQo
Night Sky is one of our favourite
iPhone and iPad apps. If you’ve ever
looked up and wondered “what star
or planet is that?”, then Night Sky
is for you. It does so much more,
too. There are several slick AR
modes, notifications for watching
the international space station fly
overhead, Siri Shortcuts... you don’t
have to be an astronomy fan to fall in
love with this app.
You might not think a sky chart on
your watch would be useful, but you’d
be wrong. Just raise your wrist to the