Your Galaxy Watch can do far more than track steps and show notifications. It can be your productivity partner, complete wellness companion, and even an entertainment device. Here are over ten hand-picked apps (and games) to help you get the most out of your smartwatch.
1 Google Keep: Your Wrist-Ready Notepad
Taking notes on a watch may seem impractical, but Google Keep on a Galaxy Watch is surprisingly effective. The Samsung keyboard with features like Swipe to Type and speech-to-text make quick note-taking extremely accessible. That said, while Google Keep is perfect for jotting down short notes or tasks, its real strength lies in accessing your existing notes.
Anything you note on your phone or desktop syncs to your watch, letting you read your notes or lists without using your phone. This is especially handy when your hands are preoccupied—like during shopping, when both hands are holding carry bags, you can easily access your shopping list notes from the watch app.
2 Todoist: A Checklist for Your Wrist
Todoist is a powerful task management app for smartphones, desktops, and smartwatches. In my personal workflow, I use the desktop app to set up tasks with specific deadlines and organize them into custom categories. Once tasks are set, I review them from my Galaxy Watch to stay on track while on the go. I can also mark tasks as completed from the watch app.
Granted, you can also do the same thing using your smartphone, but I avoid using my phone during work hours. The Galaxy Watch provides a distraction-free way to keep track of tasks, making it a helpful productivity tool.
The watch app also allows you to create new tasks and assign them to pre-defined projects. It’s convenient for adding quick reminders, but setting up a full schedule is easier from the desktop app.
3 Focus To-Do: Time Management Made Wearable
Finding a reliable Pomodoro timer for the Galaxy Watch is surprisingly challenging, which is what makes Focus To-Do stand out. Unlike other options, its notifications actually work reliably—provided you keep it running in the foreground. It also doubles as a powerful task management system to help you create projects, assign estimated time (Pomodoro) to finish them, set due dates, track progress, and more.
By default, Focus To-Do follows the classic 25/5/15 Pomodoro pattern—25 minutes of work followed by 5-minute short breaks and a 15-minute long break every four Pomodoro sessions. Unfortunately, the free version doesn’t allow you to customize the timers. If you want to use custom timers, you’ll need to pay for the premium version, which also comes with added features like strict mode, task tags, calendar view, and more.
4 Sectograph: Your Day at a Glance
Sectograph is a one-of-a-kind app that transforms your schedule into an intuitive visual watch face. It syncs with your Google Calendar to display events as colored sections on a pie-chart-style clock. It’s excellent for time-blocking, giving you an immediate sense of how long events will last and when your next one begins. Unlike traditional calendar views that require scrolling, Sectograph offers all this information at a quick glance.
Now, you can set it as your default watch face—and it works great—but I find the time and date too small to read comfortably, especially without my glasses. I prefer using Sectograph as a quick-access tile—just a right-swipe away while keeping my regular watch face for clear-time viewing. I personally use the free version, and it’s more than adequate for most users. However, there’s a premium version for those of you looking for a 24-hour clock view and color customization options, helping you better categorize and quickly visualize your workday and upcoming tasks.
5 Facer: Style Your Watch
Facer is a fantastic tool for customizing your Galaxy Watch, letting you access thousands of unique watch faces. Whether you prefer something sporty, minimalist, elegant, or even quirky, Facer has something that will suit your personality. Granted, some of the watch faces are a bit over-designed and can feel bloated. However, there are also plenty of minimal and elegantly designed watch faces that have me coming back to Facer as my favorite Galaxy Watch customization tool.
That said, only some of the watch faces on Facer are free—most of them are paid, albeit reasonably priced. You can either buy individual watch faces or join their subscription plan—Facer Premium, to unlock all watch faces and use whichever ones you like. The Facer app on your smartwatch will also give you three tokens per day to do Daily Mixes, which will give you three random watch faces for free to grow your collection.
6 Calm: Your Pocket Zen Master
Calm brings comprehensive mood management to your wrist—offering everything from breathing exercises and guided meditations to sleep stories and emotion tracking. If you’re feeling restless, quick breathing sessions help you recenter, while guided meditations build long-term mindfulness. The app includes multi-day challenges focused on improving happiness, stress management, and quality of sleep.
Also, you’re probably wearing your Galaxy Watch to bed to gather sleep data. Well, now, thanks to the Calm app, your watch can help you fall asleep as well. Instead of reaching for your phone with its distracting apps and sleep-disrupting screen light, you can use your watch to play a curated collection of sleep stories narrated by well-known personalities, including Stephen Fry. And yes, Calm can use the Watch speaker so you don’t need to wear earbuds to hear those stories.
7 Seven: 7-Minute Wonder Workouts
For the 7th app on our list we have Seven! It brings a fun, gamified workout experience to your Galaxy Watch—perfect for sneaking in quick exercise sessions throughout your day. The watch app’s interface is cleverly designed for the limited screen space. It first shows you an animation of the exercise you need to perform with a countdown timer and then starts the workout with vocal encouragement to keep you going. Once you complete a set, a rest timer kicks in which also shows you the next exercise.
The app tracks your progress and rewards you with achievements to keep you motivated. It’s honestly one of the simplest ways to integrate some consistent physical activity into your daily routine. I am on the free version, which offers enough exercises to get you started and keep you going. However, if you want to unlock more workout varieties and personalized plans, there’s a premium version as well.
8 Audible: Making Knowledge Even More Accessible
Audible brings an impressively complete audiobook experience to your Galaxy Watch—packing practically every feature you’d want right on your wrist. You can speed up playback, skip chapters or jump in 30-second intervals, set timers, and even manage your downloads directly from the watch interface.
What makes this particularly useful is the ability to download audiobooks to your watch’s local storage. Even without the LTE version of the Galaxy Watch, you can download books over Wi-Fi and listen to them on the go—no phone needed. I find this perfect for my daily walks—just put on an audiobook and get those steps in.
9 Games on the Galaxy Watch
Playing games on your Galaxy Watch might sound absurd given the tiny display, but some developers have actually done an excellent job optimizing their games for the watch interface. A few of my personal favorite recommendations are:
Cactus Run Classic is similar to the Dinosaur Game you have on Chrome browser when you’re offline. This one, however, lets you pick different characters, like a running Cactus instead of a dinosaur. It also packs in other simple mini-games for you to try out. However, if you’re in the mood for some puzzles, I’d urge you to try out Energy—where you tap on pipes to rotate them and complete energy loops, or Hex—where you rotate tiles to create closed infinity-shaped patterns. And yes, the classic 2048 is here, too—just swipe to move numbers around. The touch and swipe controls work surprisingly well on the watch’s small screen.
And there you have it, folks, 12 apps to help you get the most out of your Galaxy Watch. From productivity and task management tools to relaxation and entertainment, these apps put the smart in your smartwatch.
