The weather, your next calendar event, and activity rings: With the Watchsmith app, you no longer need three complications on your Apple Watch to do that. We have tested the promising app.
Watchsmith review: Complications that change
While we wait for Apple itself to come up with dynamic complications, developer David Smith has created a clever app. With Watchsmith you put together a complication that changes automatically during the day.
The app makes it easy to perform multiple functions with one complication, leaving more space on your watch face, or allowing you to use watch faces with limited space for these apps more effectively.
For example, you can see the weather forecast on your watch face in the morning, it switches to your calendar appointments at 12 noon and in the evening you can see what you still have to do to fill your activity rings.
It all works through the Watchsmith iPhone app. This lets you manually set a time schedule for a complication. In total, the app can switch 24 times a day (every hour), although we find it more practical to create a number of time slots for the morning, afternoon and evening.
Version 1.0 of the app does not support all watchOS apps yet. You can now choose from the date, time, calendar, activity, weather and astronomy. More apps will be added to Watchsmith in the future. The Watchsmith app on the Apple Watch itself is also surprisingly comprehensive. With full weather, calendar and workout components.
Your Apple Watch even more productive
Until Apple comes up with such dynamic complications of its own with watchOS 7 or a later update, Watchsmith is a great way to make your Apple Watch more personal. It takes some effort to get the hang of the app, but that does give you an Apple Watch that is a lot better at showing the information you need at that moment.
Watchsmith is free to download and use. If you want to unlock all functions and more adjustments, you will have to take out a subscription of 1.99 euros per month or 21.99 euros per year.