A Better Day Is a Much Better Calendar Complication for Your Apple Watch
I don’t like the crazy Apple Watch dials – the ones that try to populate your watch face with time, data points, and other icons that you click to access one or the other. But even though I’m a purist, I installed a third-party complication Better Day ($ 2) and switched to a slightly more data-loaded face because that third-party complication gives you a much better calendar for your Apple. Look than Apple.
For a reasonable price, Better Day provides you with a customizable icon (or clickable text) that you can customize to display the current month, day of the week and day, month and day, or all three. Tap it and you will be taken to a large calendar, and you can scroll through its months using the digital crown (or through the years by flicking your finger left or right).
Yes, that means you can’t just click on the icon to see a list of your day’s events, unless you pair Better Day with Apple’s standard calendar. I think Apple Watch will do both: one for the daily digest, and the other for seeing which day a particular date is set for (for example).
If you want calendars to match your travels abroad (or home) – for example, because some countries prefer to start the week on Monday rather than Sunday – you also probably cover Better Day, which also offers customized calendars in 21 different formats. languages.
And all those icons (or clickable text) that you can place on different watch faces? You can even customize their color if your face supports it. Castillo just updated the app to support the all-new Apple Watch 4, which means more accent colors to play with and tons of new renderings.
The only downside to Better Day is that it’s a little tricky to set up. Make sure you’ve installed the app on a supported iPhone, and also make sure the Apple Watch version of the app is installed. You may have to switch to setting your current face through the Apple Watch rather than the Watch app for Better Day to appear.
While the whole setup error is unusual, I appreciate that developer Joey Castillo has tried to solve it – at least based on all the answers I seem to have posted on social media lately. That’s a lot of work for an app that only costs $ 2, which is a steal in itself compared to buying a wall calendar with cute animals at one of the kiosks in the mall.