The apps
3 apps, one rule: the watch comes first.
Each one is a Wear OS app with an Android companion, not a phone app with a watch remote. Open one to see what it does on the wrist, what it asks for, and where its data lives.
FileManager
files on the watch
Browses the watch's own storage, and moves files between phone and watch without a cable.
- Wrist
- Browse, search and open files on the watch — PDFs, text, images, video and audio.
- Phone
- Send files over to the watch, and pull back what is on it.
- Runs without the phone
- Phone ↔ watch transfer
- No account, no server
Everything about FileManager
Camera Wear
camera remote
Turns the watch into a viewfinder and a shutter button for the phone camera.
- Wrist
- Live preview from the phone lens, with the shutter, the timer and the lens switch.
- Phone
- Does the photography — it runs the camera and keeps the shots.
- Live viewfinder
- Lens and timer presets
- Needs the paired phone
Everything about Camera Wear
Video Player
video on the watch
Sends videos from the phone to the watch, then plays them there with the phone left behind.
- Wrist
- The videos you sent, played full screen on the watch.
- Phone
- Pick videos, shrink them to a size a watch can hold, push them across.
- Plays without the phone
- Wifi transfer
- Compresses before sending
Everything about Video Player
What you need
The same for every app.
- Watch
- Wear OS 4.0 or newer
- Phone
- Android 10 or newer
- Pairing
- Two of three run standalone
- Data
- Your files never leave your devices