If you just got a new smartwatch with Wear OS (previously known as Android Wear), chances are you want get the most out of it installing some applications that you usually use from your smartphone in order to avoid continually taking it out of your pocket.
However, the first thing you should be clear about is that there's still a long way to go so that smart watch apps can replace a smartphone, not only because of the size of the screen, but also because of its slowness and lack of functions.
If you want to know what the best smart watch apps I invite you to keep reading.
How to install apps on a smart watch
Just like on iOS absolutely nothing to do to install an application on the Apple Watch, the same thing happens on Android.
Once we have installed an application on an Android terminal that also has an application for smart watches managed by Wear OS, the application is automatically installed on the device.
How to uninstall an app on a smart watch
To remove an application installed on the smartwatch with Wear OS, we must open the Wear OS application on our Android, go to the Applications tab and uncheck the app that we don't want to be available on our smartwatch.
If the application has ceased to be useful also on our smartphone, by deleting it, it will also will be removed from our smartwatch.
Digital garbage in the form of apps that we don't use all it does is affect device performance, be it smartphone, tablet, smartwatch…
Best apps for Wear OS
Telegram
If you use this messaging platform on a regular basis, you should know that also available for Wear OS. With this version, we can access all the chats that we have open, including the groups.
It also allows us respond by dictating the messages. It is not an excellent option to consult long conversations, but to receive messages and answer it is more than enough.
Outlook
Outlook is one of the most widely used email clients on computers around the world, an application that is also available for smart watches managed by Wear OS.
Outlook for Wear OS is one of the few applications that we have at our disposal to manage day-to-day emails from our wrist.
Of course, do not expect to be able to respond using all the functions offered by the Android application, but to respond briefly and receive notifications is more than enough.
Google Keep
If you have adopted Google Keep as your app for jot down the notes you don't want to forget, you're taking a while to use the Google Keep app for Wear OS.
Through this application, we can not only view all notes that we have stored in the application, but also allows us to add new notes through voice commands that are transcribed into text.
Google Maps
When you want to find a street while searching, the Google Maps app for Wear OS is the perfect companion. The application will indicate us through voice commands and images on the screen the route to follow.
It does not matter that our smartwatch does not have GPS, since it is an extension of our mobile application, reflecting the information on our wrist.
Google Translator
If you travel to a foreign country from which you don't know the language, we can use the Google Translate application from our smartwatch with Wear OS.
Being a reflection of the Android application, all the languages that we have previously downloaded on our smartphone will be available on our wrist no need to spend mobile data.
We can also translate the voice, which allows us to respond in the same language from our wrist. Of course, it is much easier and faster to use the mobile application if the conversation is long.
Google Fit
If you would like to monitor all physical activity what you do with your smartwatch, the best free application to do it is Google Fit. With this application we can record any type of sports activity that we do on a daily basis.
All the data obtained are synchronized with our Google account, which allows us to use different devices to monitor our physical activity. Plus, now that Fitbit is owned by Google, new features and improvements are continually being added.
Watch Faces – Watchmaker
One of the coolest features within Wear OS is the ability to create our own spheres or use one of the thousands offered by some applications such as Watch Faces.
The Watchmaker application offers us from spheres of the Casio classics to analog dials of mechanical watches. In addition, it allows us to modify the spheres available in the application to adapt them to our liking, to add or change the existing complications.
Camera Remote
With the Camera Remote application, we can take pictures with our mobile, seeing at all times which is the best frame from the screen of our smartwatch.
It is also ideal for use the rear camera to take a selfie or just record a video.
Spotify
Manage the playback of our playlists from our wrist it is much easier and more intuitive than doing it through the headphones (as long as we remember how many touches we have to give to change the song, pause playback...).
Also, on devices with a data connection, we need to carry the smartphone with us to be able to listen to our playlists or download them previously.
Shazam
When you're at home, you don't always have your mobile close by. If you want recognize the name of a song you'll have to run out and find it unless you have the Shazam app for Wear OS installed.
This application works the same way as on smartphones and it is able to recognize the songs that sound in our environment, as long as it is perfectly distinguishable.
Calculator
You don't know how useful it is to have a calculator on your smartwatch until you have the need to use it habitually or sporadically.
Having to take the mobile out of our pocket to perform a simple calculation that we are not able to do mentally is very annoying when the simplest solution is on our wrist.
