Take Your Apple Watch to the Next Level with These 7 Hidden App Store Gems

I’m a month into wearing an Apple Watch for the first time and have had so much fun experimenting with everything it can do out of the box: calling, texting, accessing my cards with Apple Pay, tracking my workouts and sleep… The list goes on. It’s impressive what you can do with your watch’s native apps. 

But downloading third-party applications allows your Apple Watch to do even more, like surfing the web and caring for a virtual pet. 

In fact, I’ve gathered an entire list of hidden App Store gems that will take your watch to the next level. Here are seven of my favorite lesser-known Apple Watch apps. 

Surf the web with Parrity

Apple has made visiting a website on your Apple Watch nearly impossible, and the Parrity app aims to fix that. Once the app is open, tap the magnifying glass at the top of the screen and from there, you can enter a site and start browsing. How great does CNET look on an Apple Watch in the picture below?

Surfing the web like this is laggier than using your iPhone’s Safari app. And Parrity often interrupts your browsing experience to resize the page so it fits better into the watch’s square screen.

But this app is helpful for moments when your phone is in your backpack or purse and you want to look something up without rummaging through your bag. Your Apple Watch needs to be connected to your iPhone to search for something new. So you can’t Google stuff on the go unless you have your iPhone with you, even if you’re on a cellular watch.

However, the pages you look at do get cached. So you could load an article while you’re near your iPhone to read later, when you’re away from your phone. 

Parrity is free and runs on WatchOS 4.0 or later.

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