Here Are the First 24 Apple Watch Apps
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Pre-orders for the Apple Watch don’t begin for another two weeks and sales don’t begin for four, but the App Store team has already approved two dozen third-party apps for the new device.
The list below, scraped from the App Store bys Zac Hall, was presumably curated by Apple with a purpose. Initial impressions are critical for a device whose utility is still an open question.
These apps — and any others approved before April 10 — are the ones staffers will be showing customers in Apple Store test-drives. They will shape the initial impressions in the first wave of Apple Watch reviews. They will also get a huge leg up — a first-mover advantage — on the competition.
It’s an interesting list. All 24 are updates of existing iOS apps. Some are there to show off functions — as hotel keys, credit cards, airline boarding passes. Others target narrow interests — cricket, baseball, fantasy football. Some — like WeChat and AliPay — are pitched to the Asian market. Some, like SkyGuide, are probably there because they’re just so cool.
Two notable omissions: Google and Facebook.
- : Gate, boarding time and boarding pass
- : China’s Apple Pay (300 million users)
- : Learn languages by talking to your watch
- : Everybody’s favorite weather app
- : Up-to-date cricket scores
- : Note-taking on steroids
- : A travel agent on your wrist
- : Weekly recipes and how-to videos
- : Free chat, voice, video calls (600 million users)
- : Pitch-by-pitch live baseball
- : Sketch on your wrist, AirDrop to iPad
- : Gate, boarding time, boarding pass
- : Shop for a home in 8 hot real estate markets
- : Spring is here; start working those abs
- : Hold it to the sky and it will name the stars
- : Check in, open room without passing reception
- : All the news that’s fit to print
- : Shopping and identity theft made easier
- : To-do list manager
- : Real-time bus and subway info in 75 cities
- : The crown jewel of Rupert Murdoch’s empire
- : The world in 140 characters (500 million users)
- : China’s favorite chat app (438 million users)
- : Fantasy football, baseball, basketball, hockey
Most of the images in Apple’s TV ad, below, were generated by home-grown apps.
Pre-orders for the Apple Watch don’t begin for another two weeks and sales don’t begin for four, but the App Store team has already approved two dozen third-party apps for the new device.
The list below, scraped from the App Store bys Zac Hall, was presumably curated by Apple with a purpose. Initial impressions are critical for a device whose utility is still an open question.
These apps — and any others approved before April 10 — are the ones staffers will be showing customers in Apple Store test-drives. They will shape the initial impressions in the first wave of Apple Watch reviews. They will also get a huge leg up — a first-mover advantage — on the competition.
