The best apps for Samsung Galaxy Watch will help you make the most of your new smartwatch.
As we all know, having a wearable device comes with its own set of challenges—like deciding which apps are worth downloading and which ones to leave on your phone. So, to save you time and energy, I’ve gone ahead and done the work for you.
Here’s what I found: The best apps for Samsung Galaxy Watch have great features like voice control, fitness tracking, custom notifications, and more. You can also use them to track your sleep patterns or get reminders about upcoming meetings (which is especially helpful if you’re an entrepreneur like me). Plus, they’re easy to install on your Galaxy Watch!
What are some other things that make these apps stand out from the crowd? Well, they’re compatible with both iOS devices and Android smartphones so no matter what type of phone you have there’s an app that works well with it.
If this sounds like something that might interest you then keep reading as I share my favorite picks below.
Best Apps For Galaxy Watch
Spotify
Price: Free / Premium Spotify account required for some features
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 on a desk showing how to download Spotify music to Wear OS.
If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, it’s a no-brainer to install the Wear OS app on your wrist. You can download tracks and podcasts to the Galaxy Watch 4 and beam them to your wireless earbuds if you pay for the service. The Spotify Wear OS app offers easy access to your “heavy rotation” artists, playlists, and podcasts, and also lets you broadcast the playing tracks to other speakers or devices.
SmartThings
PriceP: Free
smartthings wear os 3 galaxy watch 4
SmartThings is an essential download if you use your Galaxy Watch 4 paired to a Samsung smartphone or own other Samsung smart devices. The app allows users to control various devices directly from the Wear OS app, from air conditioners to TVs, smart lights to washing machines. You can also build routines or “scenes” that’ll initiate a setlist of commands with one tap of a button.
Facer
Price: Free
There are plenty of Wear OS watch faces available on the Play Store, but what if you want to build your own? Facer is a popular Wear OS app that does just that, giving users access to a healthy list of pre-made watch faces or tools to build their own.
Samsung Internet Browser
Price: Free
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samsung internet browser wear os 3 galaxy watch 4
Why wouldn’t you want to browse the web from your wrist? It might seem odd to include a full-blown browser on this list, but Samsung Internet Browser does have its benefits. The home page consists of a list of bookmarks, which you can populate with your favorite websites. Browsing is an odd but decent experience on the small screen, but you can also send the page to your phone for a better look.
Google Keep
Price: Free
google keep wear os 3 galaxy watch 4
Gaining access to your notes from your wrist is incredibly useful. Google Keep streamlines this process on Wear OS, syncing with your phone and web scribbles. You can also add notes directly from the Galaxy Watch 4 using the wearable’s keyboard, handwriting recognition, or your voice. The latter is especially useful if you’re unable to type on your watch while on the go.
SimpleWear
Price: Free
simplewear wear os 3 galaxy watch 4
Smartwatches often display phone notifications, but what if you wanted to change or view your phone’s settings? SimpleWear is an innocuous little app that you probably didn’t know you needed. It effectively acts as an information and settings relay for your phone, mirroring the battery life status of your phone on your watch. It also enables access to quick settings toggles, including sound profile, Wi-Fi, location, phone lock, and more. It can also be set as a tile, adding to its utility.
Wear Gesture Launcher
Price: Free
Although it’s no longer under active development, this app still has plenty to offer Galaxy Watch 4 users. Wear Gesture Launcher lets Galaxy Watch 4 owners map different apps to letters or shapes drawn on the watch face. Essentially, this lets you bypass the crowded app drawer on Wear OS 3 and go directly to an app you’ve set a shortcut to. Operation is swift, but the learning curve isn’t completely flat. You’ll need to remember where on the display you’ve placed the launcher’s hot zone to activate it, too.
C25K
Price: Free / In-app purchases
c25k wear os 3 galaxy watch 4
C25K’s claim to fame is its two-month program which aims to help couch potatoes morph into regular runners. Like the Fitbit app, the Wear OS layout is simple. The app will display the workout day you’re currently on. You can also select another day’s program using the menu. While there are plenty of other fitness apps out there, we enjoy C25K’s no-fuss layout, especially on Wear OS.
Strava
Price: Free / $7.99 per month / $59.99 per year
Strava is one of the best-known fitness apps out there and a must-have if you’re into multisport. The app records many activities, from runs to bike rides to swims, and a host of additional statistics, metrics, and real-time data. Don’t like training alone? Strava has a host of social features baked in, too. If you’re not too serious about working up a swear, Samsung’s native Health app and your imagination should do just fine, but Strava does help when it comes to keeping up a routine.
See also: The best fitness apps to get into shape
Ourdooractive
Price: Free / ~$2.88 per month / ~€5.76 per month
outdooractive wear os 3 galaxy watch 4
An essential Wear OS app if you regularly find yourself yearning for a hike. Outdooractive lets you search for nearby trails using your Galaxy Watch 4’s GPS and enables you to download any trail routes you may want to keep. When you are out hiking, you can call up one of those saved trails. The app also provides turn-by-turn navigation, current elevation, and GPS coordinates.
The best Samsung Galaxy Watch apps for Tizen
Calculator
Facer
Here WeGo
MapMyRun
Shake Launcher
SmartThings
Spotify
Strava
Voice Recorder
Wrist Flashlight
Calculator
Price: Free
samsung calculator galaxy watch apps
A calculator on your wrist is super handy. While perhaps not an essential app, Samsung’s Calculator app does allow users to complete basic mathematic functions on the run. The app also has a built-in tip calculator, which makes calculating dinner time overheads a little easier. It’s an extremely lightweight app, too, so it’s well worth the install.
Facer
Price: Free
Facer best Samsung Galaxy Watch apps
Customization is part of the smartwatch experience, so an app that allows you access to various styles is a must. Facer does just that. Already established as a Wear OS app, Facer is also available to Samsung Galaxy watch users and provides similar functionality.
The app allows users to tweak various elements of their watch face, sample a bevy of designs from other users, and create their own faces if they’re so inclined. Facer requires a companion app for Samsung watches and the primary app for Android phones.
Here WeGo
Price: Free
Here WeGo
Here WeGo is the most popular mapping app on the Samsung Galaxy Store. The app provides watch users with a real-time, interactive map complete with audio navigation and alerts. Offline maps support also makes Here WeGo an excellent companion for tourists, while traffic info lets you better understand how long a taxi across town may take.
Although it’s not quite Google Maps and lacks that social aspect, Here WeGo is an excellent navigation app in a pinch for the Galaxy watch.
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MapMyRun
Price: Free
Map My Run best Galaxy Watch Active 2 apps
Under Armour’s MapMyRun is another quintessential app for regular runners. While it does lack the versatility of Strava, it provides specific and acute details catering to runners. This includes real-time stats. MapMyRun uses the Samsung Galaxy watch’s onboard GPS to compute distance traveled and pace, too. Heart rate monitoring, a live map, and goal-setting smarts add to the experience.
Best apps for samsung galaxy watch 4
How to download apps on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4
There’s two ways to get apps on your Watch 4. The first is to download apps from the Google Play Store, via the Samsung Galaxy Wearable companion phone app.
Once the Galaxy Wearable app is installed on your phone and your Watch 4 or Watch 4 Classic is paired, do the following:
Scroll down from the main screen until you see Store and this will push you into the Google Play Store.
Download apps directly from the Galaxy Watch 4
If you want to download apps directly from the Watch 4, do the following:
- Swipe up from the main watch screen to reveal the app screen
- Look for the Google Play Store app icon.
- If you haven’t done already you’ll need to link a new or existing Google account to start downloading apps.
- You can return to the app and start searching for apps by voice, using the keyboard or drawing out letters to spell the app you’re searching for, which we found the most useful method.
Weather 14 Days – Meteored
Free: Google Play
Best Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 apps: New Wear OS 3 apps to download
We love a weather app and this is a good one to grab for the Galaxy Watch 4. The Wear OS version has been given a bit of a revamp, giving you weekly and hourly forecasts and additional data like UV index and visibility to keep you safe if you’re heading out in your car.
Spotify: Music and Podcasts
Free, Google Play
Spotify
When Google first announced Wear OS 3, Spotify was among the first apps being rebuilt for the new platform. Like the Samsung Tizen version, it still gets you offline playlist support (with a Premium subscription), the ability to control where the music is streamed from and ‘like’ songs by tapping that heart icon. There’s a dedicated screen to download playlists and there’s also Tile support, which means you can add a dedicated screen to quickly access and start playing something.
YouTube Music
Subscription required, Google Play
YouTube Music
If you don’t fancy Spotify, there’s you can opt for YouTube Music as your go-to music streaming service. Like Spotify, you’ll need to have a YouTube premium subscription to make use of the app, which lets you download music when offline. YouTube has also added a smart download feature, which will download 50-500 songs over Wi-Fi when your watch is on charge.
To-Do List – Schedule Planner & To Do Reminders
Free: Google Play
Best Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 apps: New Wear OS 3 apps to download
Some of the best apps are the simplest ones and To-Do List goes about its business in a really effective way giving you an interface that’s easy to see what you need to do and then let you mark them when those tasks are done. You can also stick lists into folders to make sure you’re dealing with the important stuff that needs to get done first.
Strava
Free, Google Play
Strava
This is another app that’s been rebuilt for Wear OS 3. Strava doesn’t need any huge explanation. It’s a place to track your workouts if you don’t think Samsung’s workout app doesn’t do a good enough job of it. You can track runs, rides, walks, hikes and even E-bike rides with the ability to turn on audio cues and enable/disable auto pause modes for running and cycling. It’s simple to use and pushes tracked sessions to the main Strava app ready to soak up all of that Kudos.
Calm
Free (subscription required for full access), Google Play
Calm
The app for helping you sleep and giving you somewhere to get that meditation fix, Calm offers a a range of classes to help you destress or find some sounds to help you quickly snooze off at night. The new Wear OS app now supports third party Tiles, which means you can now add a widget giving you quick access to short guided breathing exercises to get you back to a calmer state again.
Komoot
Free (subscription required for full access), Google Play
Komoot
The mapping platform for hikers, walkers, runners and anyone that likes spending time out on the great outdoors has updated its Wear OS app to be a better fit for Google’s new OS. There’s now two third party Tile options with the first letting you quickly track workouts and the second offering a place to see Tours, which are recommended places to visit and explore near your current location.
Walk with Map My Walk
Free: Google Play
Best Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 apps: New Wear OS 3 apps to download
Just because the Galaxy Watch 4 can track runs, swims, HIIT workouts and a whole lot more doesn’t mean it can be handy if you like to slow things down and monitor your walk time. The Walk with Map My Walk app offers training plans and workout plans and offers real-time updates as you get moving. It’s a strong alternative to Samsung’s own tracking apps if they don’t quite do it for you.
Walkie-Talkie
Free, Google Play
Walkie-Talkie
Yes, Apple already did this one too, and now if you’ve got a Galaxy Watch 4-owning friend, you can use the Samsung smartwatch as a way to have instant chats via the onboard microphone. It can search your contacts for people to chat with and enabling permission to your location will help you search for friends to get talking with over Bluetooth.
Outdooractive
Free, Google Play
Outdooractive
Like Komoot, Outdooractive is another useful app that lets you download hiking, cycling OS maps that can you can store offline when you venture into locations where getting good phone signal is going to be an issue. It can make use of Samsung’s PPG heart rate monitor to track heart rate and lets you view details like coordinates and elevation data. The third party Tile support also means you can swipe to see a handful of recommended routes to check out near to your current location.
Citymapper: All Your Transport
Free: Google Play
Best Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 apps: New Wear OS 3 apps to download
We are probably not alone in saying that Citymapper is one of our favourite apps to get around and the app for Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 is well built for the Wear OS 3-running smartwatch. Once you’ve assigned a city in the phone app, you can choose to let it get you home or work, giving you step-by-step instructions on trains, buses and other modes of transports to catch to get you where you need to go. Good travel smartwatch apps need to be easy to use and this is definitely one of them.
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