In just under a week, the Apple Watch will make its way onto the wrists of millions of users. The wearable has proved to be immensely popular, after it was sold out within a mere six hours of being available for pre-orders.
If you’re one of the lucky users who managed to get their pre-orders in within that time, you’ll probably want to jump straight into installing apps on your Apple Watch. However, with more and more apps being added to the Apple Watch App Store every day, it’ll be a hard task to find good apps amidst the clutter. To make things easier for our readers, we’ve compiled a list of the top new Apple Watch apps released this week, which you really need to check out.
Twitterrific
Even though Twitter’s official app was demoed at the Apple Watch launch event, third-party apps for the social network were nowhere to be found. Leading the pack is Twitterrific, which was announced a couple of days ago, making it the first third-party Twitter app with third-party support. Twitterrific allows you to track all of your Twitter notifications in real-time. Using the glance view, you can also track your favorites, follower counts, and retweets.
If users wish to expand the functionality of the app, they will need to get the in-app purchase for push notifications priced at $1.99, which will allow for notifications such as alerts for replies, retweets, favorites, direct messages, mentions, and even for new followers to be viewed at a glance.
With the new force touch technology, you’ll be able to compose tweets from anywhere within the app, which will be dictated using Siri. Overall, Twitterrific is an extremely capable app, and it really embodies the Apple Watch’s aim of keeping users updated with their notifications without the need to pull out their phones.
Mint
While there’s a plethora of different financial management apps on the iPhone and the iPad, the Apple Watch was lacking completely in that category until last week, when Citigroup unveiled its “Mint” app. The Mint money management app allows you to keep track of all of your different types of accounts right from the Apple Watch. It also allows users to manage budgets, set up payment reminders, and review their spending habits.
The app is linked to Mint.com, so that your data is available across all platforms via web access. Additionally, the app can show you personalized notifications and monitor daily spending.
The app is fairly straightforward to set up and security isn’t a concern either, since all of your critical data will be locked down with 128-bit encryption; on top of that, the account will be secured with a 4-digit PIN.
Flight Tracker
This app is set to be the perfect companion for frequent flyers and travelers. It’s not uncommon for a flight to get delayed; and if it gets delayed without your knowledge, prepare to spend hours and hours waiting at the airport for the new scheduled flight time. With Flight Tracker, you will just need to input the flight number, and the app will present you with an array of information about the flight. This includes the departing terminal or gate, and scheduled time; it will also display the countdown until the flight, so you can check at a glance how much time you have before you have to go to the airport. On top of that, all of the app’s tracking operations work in real-time, so you’ll never have out-dated data again.
In addition to all this, you’ll also be able track you flight live, in real time, once the plane has taken off. In that mode, the app will present you with details such as your arrival gate or terminal, the state of the weather at your destination, along with other useful data.
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