Apple Watch Apps available on the Apple store now number 3,500 promising customized experience for the user with flight info checks, hotel and restaurant recommendations, to-do list aids, local language guides, and even calculator functions.
It is now up to the 376,000 new owners of the first Apple smartwatch to choose from among these many options on what would best customize their unique Apple Watch experience.
Information Weekly provides a guide to the five best travel apps for the Apple Watch that would provide some relief to the traveler's needs for airport, hotel, and food assistance.
American Airlines topped the travel apps list for providing info on gate changes, arrival time and departure notification, baggage claim, and connection details.
Expedia is a good alternate up that provides the same travel information needs to non-AA travelers.
Trip Advisor gives tips for local tourist spot must-sees and places to dine.
Babbel teaches any non-local words that can help travelers understand the local lingo.
Starwood Hotels and Resorts made it to the Information Weekly list for allowing the wearer to check in the hotel and unlock the room door, in addition to giving directions to the hotel, all from the wrist.
MacRumors surveyed its discussion forums for actual experience recommendations and came up with its own best five lifestyle Apple Watch Apps.
Workflow topped the list as an automation tool to help the user complete over 200 varying tasks involving contacts, maps, documents, and social media.
Philips Hue gives 10 different mood lighting options for Hue lights that can be activated from the wrist.
Things is a to-do app that displays day-to-day tasks and long-term goals for checking off.
Calcbot enables the user to perform basic calculations and conversions such as how to split a restaurant bill and the right amount of tips to give, currency conversion, and even temperature changes.
Clear brings reminders and to-do lists straight to the wrist device featuring and features Glance.
Despite the many apps choices Fortune laments that first generation third-party apps available are "the ones giving the Apple Watch a bad name." MacRumors adds that the Apple Store is "cluttered with basic or poorly designed apps" due to being developed before the Apple Watch was available.
The Fortune report credits iPhone Overcast app developer Marco Arment for revealing why most of the Apple Watch apps are not working well. Arment discovered the slow load time between the Watch and iPhone has made the Apple WatchKit "frustratingly unreliable" with the apps taking too long to navigate and the watch screen turns off before the task is finished.
Apple Watch Apps are available for download on the Apple Store.
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