Turn your Apple Watch into an offline music and video player.
Player for Watch lets you import local audio and video files, organize your music library, and play media directly from your wrist. Transfer songs, playlists, movies, lectures, podcasts, workouts, or other personal files to Apple Watch and enjoy them when you are away from your iPhone.
Built for Apple Watch music and video playback:
• Play local audio and video files on Apple Watch
• Play through the Apple Watch speaker, AirPods, or connected headphones
• Control music from Now Playing with full playback controls
• Add music widgets and Control Center controls for playback, repeat, shuffle, like, lyrics, previous, and next
• Use AirPods controls for convenient playback from your wrist
• Use repeat, repeat one, shuffle, playback speed, and sleep timer controls
• See the current playback queue and jump to what plays next
• Auto-play the next song or video
• Fine-tune music progress with a circular scrub gesture or the Digital Crown
• Fine-tune video progress with the Digital Crown
• Resume video and music from the last playback position
Music library tools:
• Browse music by Songs, Playlists, Albums, and Artists
• Search your watch library from your wrist to quickly find songs and albums
• Create playlists and manage playlist contents
• Like favorite songs and access them from Liked Songs
• Manage your watch music library from iPhone
• Show, hide, and reorder albums and artists
• Customize the Music home order on Apple Watch
• Fetch matching album and artist artwork from Apple Music when available
• Add or modify song cover art from iPhone
• View embedded lyrics and imported .lrc lyrics
• Show the current lyric line from widgets
Video tools:
• Watch videos in landscape mode
• Compress videos before sending to improve Apple Watch compatibility
• Organize videos with folder management
• Hide selected videos from your library
• Protect hidden videos with a passcode
Personalization and accessibility:
• Customize the watch app accent color
• Use VoiceOver-friendly controls and widget labels
Import media your way:
• Import from the Files app
• Import videos from the Photos app
• Share files from other apps with export support
• Transfer from Finder on Mac or iTunes on PC
• Access Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, and other cloud services through the Files app
Player for Watch is designed for people who want a simple local media player on Apple Watch: offline music, local videos, lyrics, playlists, widgets, and playback controls without extra setup.
Supported audio files:
mp3, m4a, aac, wav, flac, m4b, aiff, aif, aifc, caf
Supported video files:
mp4, mov, m4v, 3gp, 3g2
I don’t give reviews, but this app has really helped me keep offline music reliably on my watch. Ever since watchos 10 I’ve had issues sending music the native way to the watch. This app sends music reliably the first time. A perfect way to setup playlists for the gym or running without the phone around. Two improvements:* The connection to the AirPods seems delayed initially when away from the phone* Request: add ability to import directly from phone music library
Sorry🫥
Td6643
Look, I think your app is cool, but I can’t use it I would, but I can’t use it with my iPad no matter what I try it won’t let me sync to my watch I really would appreciate if you could respond and make it so my watch would sync to my iPad cause that would be an absolute game changer so I’d really appreciate it if you could make it so my iPad works syncing to my watch because if you could, I could rise it to five stars🤩. so far I can’t use it and it’s driving me insane and I know there’s probably gonna be a thing saying developer response and could you please try and make it iPad compatible to watch because I haven’t found a really good way to actually listen to music or videos I’m 12 BTW🤓 I just started middle school and the bus is boring enough without any music I have some headphones and when you respond and hopefully fix it i’ll finally be able to not be bored on the bus anymore i’m gonna start this review cause I can go on and on why I need this app so I’m just gonna end it with please please respond and fix the issue with the iPad and watch compatibility.
Developer Response
Apple Watch can only pair with an iPhone, not an iPad. This is how Apple designed it, so the app can’t sync directly from iPad.
Finally, the Perfect Apple Watch Media Player!
SKY33WALKER
After struggling with the outdated iWatch Videos app, which hasn’t been updated in ages and recently stopped working altogether, I’m thrilled to have found Player for Watch. This app is exactly what I’ve been looking for—it does everything you’d expect and does it flawlessly.The setup is simple: I can load both videos and music straight to my Apple Watch, and playback is smooth and reliable. The interface is polished, intuitive, and clearly designed with care. Best of all, the app is regularly updated, so I feel confident that it will keep working for a long time to come.For only $4, it’s absolutely worth it. Compared to my frustrating experience with older apps, Player for Watch feels like a breath of fresh air. If you want to take your video and music library on the go with your Apple Watch, I highly recommend this app!
Fantastic!
Applelava
Update months later: I still love this app! I have lots of music on my watch. Couldn’t be happier. I really dislike having to add mp3s to the Apple Music app then transfer them to the music app on the watch. Simply too many steps. This Player for Watch app is amazing game changer. I can transfer music from my Dropbox and google drive to the app, then let the app move it to my watch. Transfer is fast and stable. The app on the watch is simple and has big buttons to hit while exercising. It also integrates with the workout app on the watch—left swipe brings up the music player and the controls there will change songs playing on this app. I haven’t tested the video yet. Overall I love this app, best money I’ve spent on a watch app. ONE TIP: if the app on the phone doesn’t sync with the watch, restart both the phone and the watch, and syncing will happen.
- Added richer music browsing on Apple Watch with Playlists, Albums, Artists, and a customizable Music home order.
- Added iPhone-side Watch Music management so you can browse the watch library, create playlists, manage playlist contents, and show, hide, or reorder albums and artists.
- Added lyrics support on Apple Watch, including embedded lyrics, imported .lrc lyrics, and new widgets for the current lyric line.
- Added a current playback queue view so you can see and jump through what is playing next.
- Improved music playback controls with separate repeat and shuffle options, plus a new Shuffle control widget.
- Added watch app accent color customization across the watch app, widgets, and related controls.
- Improved album and artist artwork handling, including better artwork lookup and artist artwork fetching with MusicKit.
- Improved VoiceOver labels and accessibility behavior across the watch app and music widgets.
- Fixed several playback and library issues, including video thumbnail transfer, video resume behavior, audio import refresh, and album grouping when album artist metadata is missing.
- Added significant performance improvements.
Version 5.0.2
The developer, 磊 汪, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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