If you have something to count, a new Apple Watch app will let you do so quickly and easily.
Clicker comes from developer Craig Hockenberry, and it’s a crazy-simple way to count anything you have that needs counting. And it’s here to motivate you.
“One of the things I noticed early on was how a simple number like ‘Longest Move Streak’ could be a motivating factor,” writes Hockenberry on his blog. “You want that number to keep going up and will do crazy things like jump on an exercise bike with a glass of whisky at 10 minutes to midnight so you can burn 20 calories and make your goal. (Yes, I really did this.)”
The developer made Clicker as a way to track how many ocean swims he takes this season, but you can use it for anything else you want to track, like how many trips to the gym you’ve taken or how many sleeves of Fig Newtons you had for breakfast. And it lives on your Apple Watch so that your number is always with you.
Once you download it, you can use your Apple Watch iPhone app to make sure that Clicker‘s third-party complication is on. Then, you just do a Force Touch on your watch face to open the customize menu and add Clicker to your home screen by picking one of the complication slots and scrolling through until it’s visible.
From there, all you need to do is tap on that complication to open the app, which is nothing but your current number and a button to add to it. You can Force Touch to subtract numbers or reset the counter, and your current tally will show on your Apple Watch face so that you can check it whenever you need a push.
But this is a pretty cool example of how developers are working specifically to the Apple Watch’s strengths in watchOS 2; when you open this app on your iPhone, it just gives you directions on how to get it up and running on the smartwatch. Clicker‘s elegant, minimal design means that you can only count one thing at a time, so you’d best make it important.
Evan Killham is a freelance writer who lives in Nebraska and isn’t interested in football, so he has plenty of time to play and think about video games. He has written for Bitmob and GamesBeat and sometimes, he even goes outside. But not too often because he’s heard there are bees out there. Occasionally, companies send free units for review. Evan subscribes to Cult of Mac’s Reviews Policy and also does not keep the items he receives for possible coverage.
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I don´t see the point either. Am I supposed to click it every time i take a shit or?
This App passed the review process? LOL Apple!
Just because you guys don’t find it useful or important doesn’t mean it’s not to anyone else. I don’t see why everyone loves Angry Birds, but to each his own, right?
I will find this app very useful. As a Speech-Language Pathologist working with elementary school students, this could be very beneficial as a quick way to track behaviors when observing a student in the classroom. Thanks for the post!