Butterfly puts Bluesky on your Apple Watch with a beautiful app

Want the latest social network that’s popping off to be available on your Apple Watch? Leave it up to indie developers to always find a way. The latest is an all-new client for Bluesky called Butterfly — no relation to MacBook butterfly keyboards, fortunately.

Reuben Catchpole, the developer behind the Instagram client for watchOS called Lens, has turned their attention to Bluesky with today’s launch of Butterfly for Apple Watch. Here’s the app description:

Butterfly for Bluesky puts Bluesky on your watch. Scroll through your feeds, engage with posts, view and send messages, check your notifications and even write your own posts-all from your wrist.

And here’s how it looks:

Butterfly for Bluesky works as expected. It’s an Apple Watch-only app with no iPhone client needed. Install it directly on your Apple Watch, then log in with your watch keyboard, password keychain, or iPhone keyboard. Once signed in, the app instantly presents your Discover or Following timeline with controls for notifications, messaging, new posts, and viewing search, profile, and accounts.

Butterfly is free to download for browsing your timelines, and an optional in-app purchase unlocks messaging, posting, and other functionality. Butterfly is a great solution from someone with experience porting social networks to tiny screens on our wrists. Check it out today if you’re a Bluesky enthusiast.

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