How to find Apple Watch apps

Looking for a Mac app? Use to the App Store application on your Mac.

Looking for an iPhone or iPad app? Jump into iTunes, click the iTunes Store button at the top of the window, then select App Store from the popup menu on the top of the right-hand nav bar. You can click the iPad or iPhone tab at the top of the window to further filter results. You can also bypass the clicking by just entering a search term in the search field, though your results can include music, apps, movies, etc.

To find an Apple Watch-specific app, things get a little more complex. If you know the name of your app, use the search field and, if there’s an Apple Watch app that matches that query, it’ll appear in the search results.

If you want to explore, you can type Watch in the search field, then click the “Apps for Apple Watch” link that appears in the right-hand nav bar. This will produce a long list, made up strictly of Apple Watch apps, but it’s a list that is painfully slow to scroll through. Clearly, this is a work in progress.

Another option is to search using your iPhone’s Apple Watch app. A solid search experience, but exploring is limited to the “Featured” tab.

As I’ve mentioned before, The Watch Aware Apple Watch app tracker purports to show all currently approved Apple Watch apps. The interface is nicely done, responsive, and there’s a nav bar at the top that lets you explore the database in a variety of ways.

There’s also that number at the top of the page that tells you how many Apple Watch apps have been approved. Unless Apple is providing this info, which I have a hard time believing, I expect this is more of an iTunes data scrape than an official list. No matter, they did a great job and this is my current go-to Apple Watch app searching option.

Anything I’ve missed (certainly the case)? Please weigh in in the comments.