Best Apple Watch Apps to Boost Your Productivity

The Apple Watch helps people track their health and fitness, but it can also be a great tool to help them stay productive and work. This is especially true for people who are easily distracted by their phones.

Although the Apple Watch comes with simple built-in productivity apps like reminders and calendar, it’s worth exploring some third-party apps designed to increase productivity by offering additional features.

Todoist

Todoist is a great app for managing tasks on your Apple Watch when you don’t want to take out your iPhone. The app allows you to create and manage tasks, organize these tasks into projects, mark them as completed and also set reminders. You can add tasks via voice command or keyboard.

The app is ideal for people who prefer to take a quick glance at their wrist instead of pulling out their phone when doing things, like checking a grocery list at the store or jotting down a quick note or reminder.

You can stay informed about the progress of your day’s tasks right from the face of your Apple Watch. For example, you can choose to display your next task or the percentage of tasks completed for the day.

Todoist is free and offers a $4 monthly subscription if you want additional features like personalized task reminders, AI assistant, calendar layout, and more.

Drafts

Since the Apple Watch doesn’t have a Notes app, Drafts is a good app for those who want a digital notepad without a phone. You can capture notes via voice command, the watchOS Scribble feature, or the keyboard.

Your drafts inbox syncs from your iPhone and shows how many drafts you have, while also showing how many drafts are flagged, so you can quickly access important drafts.

The app defaults to a blank note so you can quickly grab an idea without interrupting your thought process. You can file notes in a folder to organize your thoughts or simply have a fluid canvas.

The app is free and has a monthly subscription of $1.99 if you want access to additional features, such as themes and the ability to send your emails to the app.

To focus

To focus is a good app for people who want a productivity timer to help them get their work done and who like to complete tasks one at a time. The app is designed to divide your work time into smaller chunks, which it calls “Focus Sessions.” By working in sessions, you can stay focused on the task at hand 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, then get right back to work. Concentration will also encourage you to take breaks between your sessions.

The app is available for $7.99 per month.

Auto sleep

Auto sleep is one of the most popular Apple Watch apps for tracking your sleep, and for good reason. The app gives you an informative overview of your sleep quality, heart rate, sleep regularity, etc. It can help you track how long it takes you to fall asleep and measure your sleep efficiency.

AutoSleep shows you all this data via a clock view with sleep rings to give you a quick overview of your stats in a way similar to the activity rings on your watch. You can see if you are getting enough sleep or if you need to try to sleep more.

The app also shows you a “readiness” score that estimates how mentally and physically ready you are for the day ahead based on how well you slept, which resembles how well the Oura Ring’s app tackles the same metric. It can also suggest the best time to go to bed to ensure you catch up.

You can access the app for a one-time fee of $5.99.

Traces

Traces is a good app for people who want to form good habits and track their progress. Every day you complete a task, your streak grows longer. If you break the chain, your streak returns to zero. You can track up to 24 habits, like flossing, practicing a new language, and eating healthy.

The app also lets you track tasks that aren’t supposed to happen every day. For example, you may want to set a goal to walk to work Monday through Friday, go to the gym three days a week, or avoid junk food on the weekends.

A quick glance at your Apple Watch lets you quickly see what tasks you have 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 at a glance.

The Apple Watch app has three views you can choose from. The “Up Next” view gives you a quick overview of your next appointment as well as the current weather. The “List” view shows you all upcoming events and tasks over the next few days, as well as the expected weather forecast. The “Tasks” view compiles all your tasks into a single view and allows you to check them off with a single click.

The app also allows you to receive alerts for upcoming events and tasks. If you want this information to appear on your watch face, Fantastical’s Smart Stack widget gives you a quick overview of your calendar.

Fantastical costs $4.99 per month.

Things 3

Things 3 is a great productivity manager that can help you create to-do lists, manage projects, and track progress toward your goals. It can be used to organize your personal, professional, financial and other aspects of your life into special “zones”.

The app features reminders, calendar integration, widgets, tags to categorize your to-do lists, and much more. Things 3 also lets you automatically repeat tasks on a schedule you set and has a special place for evening plans in the “Tonight” section.

As the day goes on, you can quickly check off items from your wrist and add new ones on the go.

You can get Things 3 for a one-time payment of $9.99.

Structure

Structure is a simple app that helps you plan your day by combining your calendar, to-do list, habits, reminders and routines into a single timeline.

You can browse your structured timeline on your wrist to see your upcoming tasks and stay on top of your routine without having to take out your phone. The app lets you store thoughts and quickly capture notes in your inbox to sort them later. You can also divide larger projects into “subtasks.”

Structured also allows you to customize your different tasks with various icons and colors to visually organize your to-do list. Structured syncs with your Mac, iPhone and iPad too.

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 draft and schedule tasks.