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The best Apple Watch apps you can download now

You’ll need something to do while you wait for your pre-ordered Apple Watch to arrive — things officially kicked off online at 12:01 PDT last night, or 3AM if you’re on the East Coast like me — so we’re compiling a running list of Watch apps hitting the App Store to keep you busy. When you actually get your Apple Watch — sometime between now and July — will depend on what model and how early you placed your pre-order. 

These apps are either already available on the App Store or plan to update with support for Apple Watch by its launch on April 24th. Install the apps on your iPhone now, and you’ll be ready to go when your Apple Watch arrives on April 24th or after. Head below for the full list of apps:

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Comments

  1. GadgetBen - 9 years ago

    That’s quite a lot to go through. Do you think you would be able to do a top 10 article? Not all of these are going to be ‘Must-haves’

  2. Gazoo Bee - 9 years ago

    Alternatively titled … “A list of crap you can download that we actually know absolutely nothing about.”

    Why do you guys do these “best of” things when you know they aren’t that at all? It’s totally f*cking misleading BS. If you want us to click on your ads, why not actually do your job first?

    • Harvey Lubin - 9 years ago

      “Why do you guys do these “best of” things when you know they aren’t that at all?”

      Calling it “A list of crap” is just as dumb as calling it “best of”, since YOU haven’t tried out those apps either!

      On the other hand we HAVE seen video demonstrations of many of those apps already, so (although it’s not an in depth review) it is still safe to say that the apps we’ve already seen are beautiful and very useful!

    • trich1228 - 9 years ago

      You sure seem bitter in your posts seems like you hate anything and everything go away

  3. Apple Watch is not made for me

  4. fezvrasta - 9 years ago

    Is there an app to read the hour?

  5. darwiniandude - 9 years ago

    Overcast
    The best podcast client ever.
    Update already hit the store.

  6. Julio.uK (@jcorreiauk) - 9 years ago

    I find this really useful to get a very real idea of what’s coming to our wrist – http://watchaware.com/watch-apps. You can even preview the app, glance or notification.

  7. majorhavoc83 - 9 years ago

    You missed 1Password. :-)

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Avatar for Jordan Kahn Jordan Kahn

Jordan writes about all things Apple as Senior Editor of 9to5Mac, & contributes to 9to5Google, 9to5Toys, & Electrek.co. He also co-authors 9to5Mac’s Logic Pros series.