15 Best Free Apps for Apple Watch (Must-Have)

You can leave your phone at home, and record activities with Strava on your Apple Watch.

You can get a real-time display of your pace, distance, and heart rate, and then you can sync your activities via Bluetooth.

It offers eight different sport types, including outdoor ride/run, indoor ride, indoor run (treadmill run), workout, hike, walk and nordic ski, which is great if you like to mix up your activities.

2. Deliveries

• App Store rating: 4.8 stars (3.1k Ratings)

I really hate it when I miss a delivery, which is why the Deliveries app is so useful.

The app helps you to keep track of all your packages so that you can always know when they’re going to arrive.

You can view a summary of all your shipments and count down the days on the main list. If you want more information, you can choose a delivery and then see where it is on the map. The app can even add estimated delivery dates to your calendar, and there’s a Notification Center widget that allows you to quickly check your packages without having to open the app.

With the Apple Watch, you can see the latest updates with just a glance. Deliveries supports lots of different couriers, like the USPS, FedEx, and UPS.

3. Runkeeper

• App Store rating: 4.8 stars (276.4k ratings)

Runkeeper is an app that helps you to reach your running goals. You can track exercise, set goals, and see your progress along the way.

You can even listen to audio, as the app allows you to choose the stats you want to hear during your activity, like pace, distance, and time (available in five additional motivating voices in English).

It even offers Apple Music and Spotify integration. There are also additional features available, like in-app challenges, exercise rewards, and virtual running groups.

4. Heart Analyzer

• App Store rating: 4.6 stars (8.3k ratings)

Designed for the Apple Watch, the Heart Analyzer app uses your heart rate data to produce charts, metrics, and reports.

It shows your heart rate over the day, and it gives you lots of data like your resting heart rates over the past week.

It’s free to download, although there are in-app purchases available.

5. Air Matters

• App Store rating: 4.6 stars (2k ratings)

Want to know more about the quality of the air where you live? That’s exactly what the Air Matters app is for. It provides real-time broadcasting of air quality information for more than 180 countries. The app shows things like air quality information for your current location and pollen data and forecasts for the United States and Europe.

Air Matters is free with ads, but there is a paid version called Air Matters Premium, which you can subscribe to and that removes the ads.

6. ActivityTracker Pedometer

• App Store rating: 4.8 stars (76k ratings)

With the ActivityTracker Pedometer app you can track your daily activity. The app will keep track of your steps, active calories, distance, and more. You can even view hour by hour stats, and stats from the last 7 days. You can even track your daily, weekly, and monthly activities in great detail.

7. Cheatsheet Notes

• App Store rating: 4.8 stars (998 Ratings)

Cheatsheet Notes is an app you can use to log notes that you might otherwise forget. This includes things like hotel rooms, luggage combinations, ID numbers, and license plates.

You can just write them down in Cheatsheet and then refer to them anywhere. You can simply glance at your Apple Watch if you need to find out important details.

8. Standland

• App Store rating: 4.5 stars (231 Ratings)

I sit down way too much. Once I get into my work, that’s it – I don’t tend to move! I know that a lot of us spend too much time sitting nowadays, which is why the Standland app is such a good idea. It’s an app that encourages you to stand up more often. It gives you stats on how often you stand, and you can unlock cute little creatures by achieving your goals.

This app doesn’t have quite as many reviews as the others, but it’s still well-rated.

9. Citymapper

• App Store rating: 4.7 stars (6.9k Ratings)

Citymapper allows you to instantly compare your travel options in real-time and worldwide. You can compare travel options across all types of transport, like walking, cycling, and buses.

The app offers turn-by-turn directions for public transportation, walking, cycling, and scooter trips so that you can easily navigate your city.

10. Seven

• App Store rating: 4.8 stars (106.7k Ratings)

Want quick workouts? Then try Seven. The app provides 7 minute workouts. There are lots on offer like personalized workout plants, and you can even set your goal and fitness level. It’s a really good app if you want to get into the habit of working out, and the best part is that with the app’s workouts, you can exercise anywhere, anytime, with no equipment needed.

11. Nike Run Club

• App Store rating: 4.8 stars (374.3k Ratings)

The Nike Run Club is one of the best and most popular Apple Watch apps. It has a lot to offer, like GPS run tracking, audio guided runs, customized coaching plans for your goals, weekly, monthly, and custom distance challenges, and more. The app is optimized for every generation of Apple Watch.

12. Night Sky

• App Store rating: 4.4 stars (771 Ratings)

View all that the skies have to offer right from your wrist with the Night Sky app. It’s a stargazing app that allows you to see constellations, stars and more.

Just aim your Apple Watch skyward, and you’ll be able to see a live 3D map of the heavens. This includes constellations, stars, planets, and satellites. You can use the app day or night.

And, there’s even a special night mode that helps you to read the map in the dark, and integrated weather reports that show the best times for stargazing. Another good feature of the app is that it offers notifications to alert you to future astronomical events.

13. MyFitnessPal

• App Store rating: 4.7 stars (1.2m Ratings)

MyFitnessPal is one of the best free apps for Apple Watch. It’s a calorie and macro tracker that offers a huge database of food. You can get information on more than 14 million foods, which can help you to accurately log everything you eat.

14. iTranslate Converse

• App Store rating: 4.1 stars (2.9k Ratings)

One of the coolest apps for the Apple Watch is definitely iTranslate Converse. It turns your Apple Watch into a two-way translation device.

The app enables conversations in 38 languages, and it automatically detects the correct language between two selected languages providing fast and accurate translation.

You can even view and export transcripts for every voice conversation.

15. Outdooractive

• App Store rating: 4.7 stars (117 Ratings)

The Outdooractive app is ideal if you enjoy hiking, cycling, and other outdoor activities. With it, you can easily find and plan routes around the world. You can browse through countless route suggestions for hiking, cycling, and ski touring. All of the app’s routes come with full details, elevation profiles, and photos and directions.

You can even record a track or follow a route on your phone and see it on your Apple Watch. There are even pan and zoom maps available too.

What Apps Should I Have on My Apple Watch?

Well, it really depends on what you want to get out of your watch. Thankfully, with everything from fitness apps that help you to track your exercise to apps that allow you to translate a conversation, there’s plenty of free apps available for the Apple Watch.

What do you think are the best free apps for Apple Watch? Let us know in the comments section below!