Strap-on fiddle factor: We poke ten Apple Watch apps

Extracting the most value from a pretty expensive wristjob

Dark Sky

The Watch comes with a Weather app. You can even opt for a weather summary on your clock face. But you’re British, dammit. You need barometric pressure, wind speed, humidity and visibility. You need a little chart of exactly how cloudy it’s going to be at each hour of the day. And tomorrow. And the next day. And when it looks like rain, you need your wearable computer to tell you it looks like rain, and at what time the drops will begin to fall.

That’s why you’ll be installing Dark Sky, the runaway favourite third-party meteorology app. Created via Kickstarter, it looks cool and uses its own weather service. It’s a shame the Watch app doesn’t get the full-screen animated map simulations available on the iPhone, but it does present all the information and predictions very neatly in the default Apple style, making it feel like part of your Watch.

And it does alert you when it’s just about to rain or snow. If it was truly British, of course, it would send you a notification when the sun was going to come out. ®

Price £2.99
More info The Dark Sky Company

Forza Football

This app provides endless detail about teams and fixtures in major and minor leagues all over the world. Set up your favourites in the iPhone app and you can keep track of what they’re up to in real time. Notifications can be mirrored to the Watch, and when a relevant match is in progress, the Watch app shows you detailed live updates.

In a stunning outbreak of common sense, if none of your teams are playing at the moment when you open the app, it instantly finds out who is – in any of 560 leagues and cups – and lets you monitor these matches. So if you just fancy following some footy while you work, or wait for a bus, or sit through a marketing conference, there’s a good chance you’ll be in luck.

Price Free
More info Football Addicts