If you have a Samsung watch, you know how convenient it can be to have your phone in your pocket and your computer on your wrist. But what if you’re not looking for a new app? What if all you want is to get more out of the apps you already have?
We’ve got some ideas for that.
Here are the top five apps for Samsung watches that will help you get the most out of your device:
Best Apps For Samsung Watch
Samsung Galaxy smartwatches offer a range of watch styles that can suit many different situations, and having the best apps for the Galaxy Watch makes it even better. The ability to download apps to customize your watch further is one of the best reasons to get a smartwatch. Below are some of the best apps you can download from the Galaxy Store for your watch.
GO CUSTOM
Facer
Free at Galaxy Store
Facer is an app that has been around for years, offering nearly any style of watch face you can imagine. There are classic-looking options to futuristic ones and everything in between. The app is free, and so are some of the options within the app. However, some may have a cost, but great work is worth paying for.
GOOD TUNES
Spotify
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Spotify is one of the most popular music services around, and Samsung Galaxy watches have direct access, with an app made for your wrist. You can stream and control your full Spotify library, including playlists you’ve created. Now you can leave your phone in your pocket when you want to get your tunes going.
SIMPLE UTILITY
Calculator
Free at Galaxy Store
While a calculator app isn’t the most extravagant or technologically impressive app these days, it’s still a handy utility to have around — and using it on your wrist makes sense. Whether you are tracking purchases at the grocery store, working on a budget, or measuring for a construction project, a calculator can be an essential tool.
TIME TO GET MOVING
Strava
Free at Galaxy Store
Samsung has a great all-around health platform loaded on all of its Galaxy smartwatches, but much of that data stays in that ecosystem. Strava is one of the most popular fitness tracking apps around, with the ability to record a wide range of workouts and share them to various platforms. You can also connect with different clubs, friends, and followers to share your progress.
REMOTE CONTROL
Wrist Camera
$3 at Galaxy Store
Galaxy smartwatches may not have a camera onboard —thankfully — but using it as a remote to control your phone’s camera is a great idea. With this app, you can set up your phone to take a group shot or a selfie from a distance and then take the photo using your watch. You can set a timer, view a preview from the phone camera, control flash, and more, using nothing more than your watch.
SMALL-SCREEN GAMES
Monster Vampire
Free at Galaxy Store
Generally, playing games on your watch isn’t much fun due to the lack of screen real estate. However, with Monster Vampire, you get to play a game without the need to access the screen continually. There’s a fun story that incorporates your physical activity to progress through the game. It’s a win-win, an entertaining game, and some exercise.
HAIL A RIDE
Uber
Free at Galaxy Store
Installing the Uber app on your Galaxy Watch will allow it to sync up with the app on your phone. You can call a ride to get you to your next destination and keep you up to date on the car’s location. When it’s getting close, the app will show you on your watch and keep your phone in your pocket.
SMARTWATCH SMART HOME
Samsung SmartThings
Check Amazon
Free at Galaxy Store
Controlling your home from your wrist seems like the perfect mix of future tech. If you are a SmartThings user, you can install the companion app onto your Galaxy Watch and adjust lights, plugs, thermostats, and more all from your wrist. You can also check on the status of different parts of your smart home, giving you even more control over your devices.
CUSHION CORRECTION
Find My Phone
Free at Galaxy Store
Losing your phone in the couch cushion, in the car, in the fridge — it was a long day — or any other number of places can be frustrating. Thankfully if you have the Find My Phone app on your Galaxy watch, you can use it to ring your phone. So long as you have a vague idea of where it may be and can get into the Bluetooth range, your watch can reunite you and your phone.
WORLD WIDE WATCH
Samsung Browser
Free at Galaxy Store
Having a full web browser on your wrist may not seem like the most practical thing, it can have some good use. Whether it is something that you need to look up in a pinch and don’t have your phone, or perhaps you want to pull up a YouTube video to watch while you’re bored, regardless of your need, it never hurts to have the option.
GETTING WHERE YOU WANT
HERE WeGo
Free at Galaxy Store
Google Maps isn’t available on the Galaxy watches, but HERE WeGo is an excellent alternative. With the ability to download maps directly to your wrist, you can navigate routes for walking, driving, riding, and more without having your phone at all. The added safety of walking around and keeping your phone put away is reason enough to download this app.
Apps make your watch work for you
By using one of the best Samsung Galaxy Watch bands around, you can make your watch a little more you. The other way to customize your watch is by downloading an app to your Samsung Galaxy smartwatch. When you are ready to start installing apps to your Galaxy smartwatch, there are a couple of ways to do it, and we have a helpful guide put together for you.
If you can’t find just the right watch face that comes pre-loaded on your watch or you just want to explore more choices, the Facer app is the way to go. You can find styles based on some of the most famous designs from around the world, to a digital sport style that looks like it came from a Sci-Fi movie and anything else in between.
Perhaps you are someone who enjoys a walk through the city, then you’ll really like having a navigation app like HERE WeGo on your wrist. It lest you keep your phone in your pocket and still have directions at a glance. Regardless of the need, you can find utilities, entertainment options, a fitness app, and so much more to ensure your watch can be anything but just a timepiece.
best music apps for samsung watch
Samsung’s Galaxy Watches usually pair excellent hardware with refined software, but there still aren’t that many third-party applications. Samsung has covered most of the basics with its own apps, and you likely won’t do most of the same tasks with your watch as you would with your smartphone, but it can still be difficult to find apps to improve your watch’s usability. It doesn’t help that the Galaxy Store lumps in watch faces with applications, so scrolling through the top apps mostly amounts to scrolling through various clock styles.There are some hidden gems on Samsung’s watches, so we decided to highlight some of the best third-party applications we could find. This list doesn’t include watch faces (or apps to manage them, sorry Facer), nor are we including any of Samsung’s own apps (since most of them are pre-installed).
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Spotify
Samsung has worked closely with Spotify over the past few years, and the Spotify app for Galaxy Watches is a result of that. While the default mode for the app is to serve as a remote control for Spotify on other devices, just like the Wear OS application, you can switch it to standalone mode in the settings. This allows you to play music on the watch independent of your phone, and if you have Spotify Premium, you can even download your favorite tracks for offline playback.
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The Spotify app also includes an optional widget, so you can start (and control) music without leaving your watch’s home screen. My only complaint is that the interface is a bit different from other Galaxy Watch apps; for example, scrolling the physical bezel on my Galaxy Watch3 skips tracks while the app is open, instead of scrolling through menus or changing the volume.
Spotify on the Galaxy Store
iGear Radio
If you don’t have Spotify and still want to stream music to your watch, iGear Radio might be another option. The pro version can stream over 20,000 internet radio stations, all without the need for a companion app on your phone. You can also sync your favorite stations to an account for easy backup.
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Since iGear Radio plays internet stations, it’s not quite as useful outside your home as Spotify with its offline playback functionality, unless you have LTE service for your watch (or you bring your phone with you). The free version has limited functionality, and the $2.99 pro app expands the list of supported stations, shows Top 10 lists for each country, and adds a widget for easy playback.
iGear Radio on the Galaxy Store
Galactica
When you need to kill a few minutes, but don’t want to pull out your phone (or you left it at home), there are a few games available on the Galaxy Store. My favorite is Galactica, a Space Invaders clone. It can be controlled by touch, motion, or the physical bezel on the non-Active watches.
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The controls aren’t quite as responsive as physical buttons on a game controller, but Galactica is still a fun way to waste some time. As of the time of writing, it costs $1.00 on the Galaxy Store.
Galactica on the Galaxy Store
Talk to Alexa
Bixby isn’t the best voice assistant around, but it does handle most of the tasks I need to do without pulling out a phone — setting reminders/alarms, asking for time zone conversions or basic calculations, and so on. However, if you need more functionality, you should give Talk to Alexa a shot.
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Talk to Alexa turns your watch into an Amazon Alexa speaker, complete with weather reports, Alexa skills, Fire TV/smart home controls, and timers/reminders. There’s also limited support for recurring timers, changing your watch’s media controls, and some news briefings.
The main downsides are you can’t start music playback through Alexa, or use Alexa’s native messaging/calling functionality. I also noticed that asking Bixby seemed to get confused by “open Talk to Alexa,” so I usually had to open it from the application list. Still, if Bixby can’t do something you need, there’s a good chance Alexa (or one of the thousands of Alexa skills) can.
Talk to Alexa on the Galaxy Store
Run with Map My Run
Under Armour’s Map My Run is one of the few fitness tracking services available on the Galaxy Watch beyond Samsung’s own offerings. The Galaxy Watch app allows you to start/stop runs and track your location using the built-in GPS.
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The Map My Run app does require installing the smartphone application and connecting the account to your watch, but once that setup process is over, you can start activities without using your phone.
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