TLA Systems has brought is popular calculator app to the Apple Watch today through the latest version of PCalc for iPhone. The PCalc Apple Watch app features a fully functional calculator for quickly crunching numbers from your watch — 1985 Casio-style like the similar Calcbot app — and similarly features a clever tip calculator that makes splitting the bill a cinch.
PCalc for Apple Watch also includes an app Glance that displays the most recent result from PCalc and serves as a shortcut to the calculator app from the watch face. Force Touching in PCalc on Apple Watch brings up a menu that includes a Send to iPhone feature as well.
While Apple includes a calculator app on the iPhone, it does not extend that to the Apple Watch. While it might seem like a throwback to the 80s, discretely calculating your tip and total at dinner has been a slick use of Apple Watch for me so far.
PCalc for iPhone with Apple Watch support is available on the App Store for $9.99. Version 3.4 is a free update to existing PCalc 3 for iPhone users.
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I just don’t see how this is a better user experience than taking the half second it takes to pull out an iPhone and use a big 5 inch screen. Do you people realize how silly you will look calculating a tip on your tiny watch screen?!? (not to mention who over the age of 10 needs a calculator to come up with a decent tip)
I’m obsessed with numbers … calculating things mostly. Even things that may not be traditionally quantifiable. I’m constantly doing some kind of calculation, mostly in my head. For example, right now, while I’m posting this, I’m wondering what kind of impact a $47 per hour bill rate increase will have on the mid, short and long term timelines of both the client and the talent. I can’t forget to factor in SEP IRA and other tax deductions for the independents as well as the S-Corps and LLCs. I don’t need exact numbers, just a close approximate.
Because I’m impatient and I like to multitask, especially when I’m sitting on the “throne” (as I proudly am now), instead of pulling away from this post and opening my calculator app on this iPad or having to waddle over to the bedroom to get my iPhone, I can confirm/verify or supplement what I’ve already done in my head right on my watch. It’s quick, useful and easy and I do it all the time. I couldn’t give a flying fu*ck how silly I do or don’t look. It works.
Anyway, this looks far better than Calcbot for the watch, but not $10 better.
You do realise that you would have to put down the iPad in order to use the app on the watch…?!?
I’m sorry but your point of view lacks credibility once you wrote the opening two words of your post.
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@Pat
You do realise that you would have to put down the iPad in order to use the app on the watch…?!?
I’m sorry but your point of view lacks credibility once you wrote the opening two words of your post.
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This is a joke, right? No way you could have such a colossally unimaginative brain, right? Prank, yes?
First, I’m going to guess you don’t known own an Apple Watch. Second, I’ll go ahead and assume you have paws for hands. Fine, so it’s Pat the Cat I dealing with.
Why, do tell, leader of kitten genii, would I “realise” that I would have “to put down the iPad” when I LITERALLY NEVER DO THAT. Literally never. Hmm … let’s see, perhaps it’s because I simply turn my right, watch bearing wrist, which, much to the shock and amazement of all humanity, STILL has the the iPad in its grips! Shut the front door! And that’s not all! Would you believe that while doing so, I stab at the watch with the OTHER HAND? Yes, I’m amazing like that and I realize not every cat has such superhuman capabilities. I know. Revolutionary, yes? Incredulously “lacks credibility”. I know.
Wow. Just wow.
By “put down” I of course mean stop using it. But as you have pointed out you “LITERALLY” never do that (!)
May I make a suggestion? The last time we checked the whole was up to your knees. Me thinks it’s time you stop digging.
Classic.
So now, apparently instead of “put down” you actually meant to say “stop using it”. Of course! Rahahahahahaha-ight. According to Pat the Cat, people won’t use calculator apps on their watches, why? Well because … incredulously … they would have to put down … err … stop using … other iDevices. As a matter of fact, why not extend this ridiculous logic to every other watch app? Watch is useless. Nobody will buy it. Ergo, anybody who says otherwise is a delusional liar! Apple is doomed!
And, uh … while you’re crafting this marvelous web of nonsense, can you give us one reason … one singular reason … even a fraction of reason what “stop using it” has do with anything? I swear I’ll give full credit if you do. Anything whatsoever?
Listen kitty, the conversation was about the utility of the calculator app on the watch. Quick turn of the wrist prevents you from having to EXIT and RE-ENTER whatever you were doing on the iDevice in hand (double Home/open calculator app/double Home/renter previous app/perhaps refresh/lose content, etc,) OR having to get up and rummage for another device. And do you how I know this? Because I do it frequently on my watch. Multiple times per day. For 3 weeks now. You know, the thing you clearly don’t have or likely have never used? Do you understand this simple concept? Is this too much for you?
And no, you may NOT make a suggestion. You’re a fu*king cat, and I don’t accept suggestions from cats. Dogs, maybe.
Arent you lucky that we will make you look cool !?
Like it… Though it seems to have one bug ..
The send to iphone only updates the numbers in the app itself and not on iphones pulldown notification center menu.
Same with quick glance.. The phone showes the numbers in iphone app and not the pulldown notification center numbers.
Seens to be disconnect between app numbers on iphone and notification numbers in the notification center.
It’s not quite as fancy as PCalc, but check out SyncCalc – it does sync between Apple Watch / Notification Center / iPhone (hence the name).
Don’t forget about Siri. “Hey Siri, what’s 47*82?” That works great on the watch.
Yes but you look like a fool when doing it in public especially at a nice restaurant. It’s just not cool to talk to a watch; maybe in the 80’s.
I use SCalc. Its 0.99 and better looking IMO for quick calculations
Good