Best Android Wear Smartwatch Apps So Far

Android Wear smartwatches do a good job of delivering notifications and other alerts to your wrist, but the fun really starts when you start downloading apps that add even more functionality. Although the selection of Android Wear apps is small for now (just more than 200), there are already some pretty compelling options in the Google Play store. You can order food, control the lights in your home, keep tabs on your fitness and more — right from your watch.
Before you get going, you'll need to download the full apps to your Android phone. The best part is that most of these options are free. You'll need to make sure you've set up an account in each service before you open the apps on the smartwatch. Here are the best Android Wear apps so far.

Wear Aware:

If you're constantly misplacing your phone, this app is just the fix you need — if chaining the device to your pants pocket is too extreme of a solution, that is. Whenever your phone goes out of reach of your Android Wear device, said smart watch will buzz. It's as simple as that. If you need a bit of a helper to then find your smartphone, you can also have the app tell your smartphone to start blasting an alarm. If you can't find it then, well, you probably need more help than an app can provide.

At Work:

How much are you working? Too much. But really, if you want to figure out just how much time you're spending on the clock, then At Work lets you punch in for the day on your smart watch — which basically just starts a timer. When you're done, you punch out, and the smartphone will give you a little indication of how long you worked. Small business owners and freelance workers may find this app indispensable.

Advanced wear visualizer:

 Turn your wrist into its own light show with this handy app, which creates visualizations out of the music playing on your smartphone. If you've ever spent hours trying to find the perfect visualizations for Winamp (or stared at your screen when blasting music in iTunes), you know how much fun it can be to have pulsating lights match the beats of your songs.

Calculator for Android wear:

 This one's easy. The app drops an easy-to-access calculator on your smart watch, giving you all the powers of fancy computation at your fingertips. If you're trying to calculate a tip, or how many somethings are in something else, you'll no longer have to reach down for your smartphone to figure things out.

Pizza Navigator:

College students, take note: This is the greatest app you will ever install on your Android Wear device — period. Pizza Navigator gives you a little compass (made out of pizza, of course). This compass points to — what else — the location of the nearest place where you can buy pizza. You get a distance, too, so you can decide whether the trip for that next delicious slice is going to be worth it.