The Apple Watch helps people track their health and fitness, but it can also be a great tool to help people stay productive and get work done. This is especially true for people who get easily distracted by the phone.
Although the Apple Watch comes with easy-to-build productivity apps like Reminders and Calendar, you should explore some third-party apps designed to improve your productivity by offering additional functionality.
Todoist
Todoist is a great app for managing tasks on your Apple Watch when you don’t want to pull out your iPhone. The app allows you to create and manage tasks, organize them into projects, mark them complete, and even set reminders. You can add tasks via voice commands or keyboard.
The app is great for people who prefer to glance at their wrist rather than pull out their phone while doing things, like looking at grocery lists at the grocery store or jotting down quick notes or reminders.
You can stay updated on the progress of tasks for the day directly from the Apple Watch face. For example, you can choose to have the next task or the percentage of tasks completed for the day displayed.
Todoist is free and offers a $4 monthly subscription if you want additional features like custom task reminders, AI assistants, calendar layouts, and more.
Draft
Because the Apple Watch doesn’t have a Notes app, Draft it’s a great app for those who want a digital notepad without a phone. You can take notes via voice commands, the watchOS Scribble feature, or the keyboard.
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Your drafts inbox is synced from your iPhone and displays the number of drafts you have, as well as the number of marked drafts, so you can quickly access what’s important.
The app serves as a blank notepad to give you a place to quickly type ideas without interrupting your thought process. You can file your notes into folders to organize your thoughts or just have a free canvas.
The app is free and offers a $1.99 monthly subscription if you want to access additional functionality, such as themes and the ability to send emails to the app.
Focus
Focus is a great app for people who want a productivity timer to help them get things done and enjoy completing tasks one by one. The app is designed to break up work time into smaller chunks, called “Focus Sessions.” By working in sessions, you can stay focused on a task before moving on to the next task.
By using your Apple Watch instead of your phone to stay focused, you can minimize distractions. You can quickly glance at your wrist to see how much time is left in your Focus Session and then get back to work. Focus will also encourage you to rest between sessions.
The app is available for $7.99 per month.
AutoSleep
AutoSleep It’s one of the most popular Apple Watch apps for sleep tracking, and it’s for good reason. The app provides an informative view of sleep quality, heart rate, sleep consistency, and more. It can help you track the time it takes to sleep and measure your sleep efficiency.
AutoSleep shows all this data through the watch face with a sleep ring to give you a quick overview of your statistics in the same way as the Watch Activity Ring. You can see if you are getting enough sleep or if you should try to sleep more.
The app also shows a “readiness” score that estimates your mental and physical readiness for the day ahead based on how you sleep, which is pretty much the same. The Oura Ring app addresses the same metrics. It can also suggest the best time to go to bed to make sure you sleep.
You can get access to the app for a one-time fee of $5.99.
streak
streak is a great app for people who want to create good habits and track their progress. Every day you complete a task, your streak is increased. If you break the chain, your streak resets to zero. You can track up to 24 habits, such as flossing your teeth, learning a new language, and eating healthy.
The app also allows you to keep track of tasks that you don’t have to do every day. For example, you might want to set yourself the task of walking to work from Monday to Friday, going to the gym three days a week, or avoiding junk food on the weekends.
A quick glance on your Apple Watch lets you see what tasks are left to complete for the day, see your progress, and mark tasks as complete.
The app is available for a one-time fee of $5.99.
Fantastic
Fantastic is a great calendar app that can help you stay organized right from your Apple Watch. You can use the app to create events and set reminders that you can view quickly.
The Apple Watch app has three views to choose from. The “Up Next” view gives you a quick overview of your next appointment along with the current weather. The “List” view shows any events and tasks you have coming up over the next few days, along with the expected weather forecast. The “Tasks” view groups all tasks into one view and allows you to review them with a quick tap.
The app also allows you to receive alerts for upcoming events and tasks. If you want this information on the clock face, Fantastical’s Smart Stack widget gives you a quick look at the calendar.
The fantastic cost is $4.99 per month.
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 is a great productivity manager that can help you create to-do lists, organize projects, and track progress toward your goals. It can be used to organize personal, work, financial, and other aspects of life into special “Areas”.
The app has reminders, calendar integration, widgets, tags to categorize to-do lists, and more. Chapter 3 also allows you to automatically repeat tasks on a set schedule and has a special place for evening plans in the “Tonight” section.
As the day progresses, you can quickly check items from your wrist and add new items on the go.
You can get Things 3 for a one-time payment of $9.99.
structured
structured is a simple app that helps you plan your day by combining calendars, to-do lists, tackers, reminders, and routines into one timeline.
You can navigate through a structured timeline on your wrist to see upcoming tasks and stay on top of your routine without having to pull out your phone. The app allows you to save your thoughts and take notes quickly in your Inbox to sort later. You can also break down larger projects with “sub-tasks.”
Structured also allows you to create multiple tasks with different icons and colors to visually organize your task list. Structured synchronization with Mac, iPhone, and iPad as well.
Structured’s basic features are available for free, but you can pay a monthly fee of $6.49 to unlock additional features, such as the ability to use AI to plan and schedule tasks.