Slack, the team communication manager by Slack Technologies, allows you to keep all of your information in one place: you wrist! The app was recently updated with Apple Watch functionality.
The Apple Watch may revolutionize they way we communicate, so why not add some pizazz to your futuristic wrist texts with stickers?
Tello has taken pity on lonely wrists everywhere and updated theirproductivity app to work with the upcoming Apple Watch.
Mattel's Magic 8 Ballis a classic mystical, magical plasticfortune-telling device that delighted teenagers with its' Yes/No answers since the 1950s. Modern teens can now enjoy its vague foresight on the Apple Watch with theMagic 8 Ball app.
Call Levels is a financial monitoring app that notifies you in real-time about your investments and the world’s major markets. You can set alerts for "930 currency pairs; 13 commodities such as gold, silver and oil; 9 indices, and more than 500 U.S. equities." That's a lot of equities! Call Levels co-founder, Cynthia Siantar says “By the time the Apple Watch is launched we anticipate having over 1000 equities available."
Call Levels makes it simple to set an alert. You simply select the asset you want to be notified about and set the desired price. When the price is hit, you'll recive a push notification. You can also add your friends to share your alerts.
Call Levels is free on the App Store and will be available for the Apple Watch on April 24.
Fans of Bloomberg Business will soon be able to get all their news on the Apple Watch. The app lets you get the top headlines on your main screen and bookmark stories to read later. Using the motion detection in the Apple Watch, the headlines are updated everytime you move your wrist to glance at it. You can also have a personal watchlist that keeps track of a portfolio of stocks, funds, indexes, and currencies. You can monitor movement on securites, see total gains and losses, and get a list of “leaders” and “laggers”.
Keep an eye out for the Bloomberg Business app when the Apple Watch launches on April 24.
Eyes Wide Games'Watch This Homerunis purportedly the first sports game coming to the Apple Watch, where you'll be up to bat as the pitcher tries to out-manuever you with fastballs, curveballs, and changeups. Using one-touch controls you can try to hit as many homeruns as possible. The game has a progression-based League system meant to make you really feel like you're a part of the team. You'll be able to track your achievements and progress on the leader boards, as well as compare your stats with friends to find out who the best batter is.
“We’ve seen where Apple Watch is going, and it’s clear that giving sports fans and gamers fast and easy ways to plug into their favorite pastimes anytime will be a defining feature of the platform,” said Eyes Wide Games CEO Stephen Griffin, in a press release. “With Watch This Homerun, we’re distilling the complete baseball experience down to its greatest hits in a form players can enjoy in just 10-15 seconds on the go.”
You'll be able to get ahold of Watch This Homerun later this month for the Apple Watch.
SPY_WATCH, by Bossa Studios, is a new game designed for the Apple Watch. Runmor has it your spy agency has fallen out of favor. To save it, you'll need to train-up a spy and send them on missions to earn you a stunningly suspicious reputation and some cash to improve your spy's abilities. The app will send you real-time notifications from you agent so you can keep track of their progress.
Bossa Studios co-founder and Chief Spy Master, Imre Jele commented: “We are now all used to communicating via short text based messages and we felt this would be a really interesting and accessible way to tell an interactive story. Thanks to the Apple Watch we are now able to bring the thrill of espionage to your wrist, just like one of James Bond’s infamous gadgets.”
SPY_WATCH will be released on April 24, right alongside the Apple Watch.
:: :: Read Review »Tempo AI has announced that their Smart Calendar app will now work with the Apple Watch. The app gives you all your upcoming events in a streamlined fashion so you never miss a beat. You'll be able to check important information in just one tap and contact other event attendeesto let them know if you are running late, enroute,or just arriving.
“When the Apple Watch was announced we were excited to build something entirely new for users,” said Raj Singh CEO of Tempo AI, in a press release. “Our goal for 2015 is to build for all the platforms people use to manage their day, especially wearable platforms where we can deliver smart, predictive experiences.”
You can download Tempo Smart Calendarfor free on the App Store to try it out before the big Apple Watch launch next week.
Yesterday 9to5Mac got their hands on an employee memo from Apple CEO Tim Cook, which mentioned that the new wearable has already had over one thousand apps submitted for it - in only four days. You can check out the original story, along with a full copy of the memo, right here.
"More than one thousand apps were submitted in just four days last week when the App Store started accepting them," Cook said, "and the rate of submissions has only been climbing since then."
That's kind of ridiculous when you stop and think about it. I mean, the App Store has only been accepting Apple Watch app submissions since last week. Of course this doesn't mean that over 1,000 apps are going to be accepted right away - Apple does have an approval process to go through and it could result in many of these submissions getting bounced back - but you can be sure the Apple Watch will still have a fairly robust selection of software at launch.
Seriously though, those are some incredible numbers. Bravo iOS developers. Give yourselves a hand.
