Fourfold: Watch Squares

Your Apple Watch can do a hundred things. You do four of them. Then four more. Fourfold gives you a 2x2 grid on your wrist, and you decide what goes in it. A room number. A photo to show someone. A timer for the tea. Four squares, one tap each. Need more? Make another set and swipe to it: eight, twelve, as many as you like with Pro. Set it up on your iPhone, and see what each square does first. Or set it up on the watch. REAL GAMES, WRIST-SIZED Chess, Reversi and Tic-Tac-Toe can all be played against the AI or by two people passing the watch. Chess — a wooden set in 3D and the whole game: castling, en passant, promotion, stalemate. Five strengths. Reversi — four strengths, and two players with Pro. Echo — four squares play, you play them back, one longer every time. Tic-Tac-Toe — three in a row. Dice — a glazed die on black glass. Tap or shake to roll. Spinner — your own options on a glass wheel. FOR WHEN THE TALK RUNS DRY Question Gacha — crank the Crown and a capsule cracks open on one of 250 questions, some to get talking and a hundred to think about. Coin Toss — a proof gold coin, sun on one side, moon on the other, tossed for real. Doodle — draw with a finger; the drawing stays on the tile. AND THE ONES THAT DO THE WORK Pomodoro — focus and break on repeat, with clear alerts and the phase on your watch face. Prompter — your talk, flowing to finish on time, at speaking speed, page by page, a point at a time, or moved by the Crown. Paste a whole script on your iPhone. Timer — your preset, ready to start, with a tap on the wrist when done. Metronome — a silent beat, tapped on your wrist. Note — memos made for a wrist: a keypad that fills the screen for a room number, and your voice, a finger or the keyboard for words. The newest sits on the square. Longer ones, with lists and checkboxes, from your iPhone. Recorder — one tap, with a small light and the time on screen while it records. It reaches your iPhone and is written out there, on the device. Please tell the people you are with first. A GOLDFISH BOWL, FOR A QUIET MINUTE Goldfish — for when you need a breather. Ryukin, a black telescope, a red cap and more, in a bowl of gold leaf, lacquer or glaze. Touch the water and it ripples; turn the Crown to make them larger or smaller. WORDS WORTH SAVORING Great Words — sayings from people who moved the world, traced to their sources. Turn the card over for why it was said. Fifty are free, all 500 with Pro. Dear & Yours — tap for a new way to open and sign off a work email. Nine hundred pairs, from I hope this finds you well to Best regards. HANDY TO HAVE Spot Pin — drop a pin where you parked, follow the arrow back. On iPhone, see all on a map and open one in your maps app. Map — see where you are and what's nearby, turn the Crown to zoom in and out, and one button brings you back. Sun — how long until sunset. Or sunrise. Photo — full screen on your wrist. The Crown zooms. Link — type or say an address, and the page brings its own name and picture. Random Number — one to anything, drawn properly. ON YOUR WATCH FACE Add the Fourfold complication and your squares sit on the face. While a Timer or Pomodoro runs it becomes that countdown. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER, NO ANALYTICS What you write and record stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch, moving directly between them. What goes out: a page you add is asked for its name and picture, map and pin names come from Apple, and a pin you open goes to that maps app. FOURFOLD PRO A single one-time purchase — not a subscription: • All sixteen Pro tiles, with chess, the goldfish, the map, the recorder and the prompter • All 500 Great Words, and two-player Reversi • Unlimited sets, swiped on your wrist • Tile stacks — up to twelve notes or photos in one square Free includes one full set of four squares, with notes, photos, links, the Timer, Echo, Dear & Yours, 50 Great Words and Reversi against the watch. Requires iPhone with iOS 17 and Apple Watch with watchOS 10.