Watch Calculator Professional Offers A Calculator Complication

Siri can do calculations on the Apple Watch, but you’re not always in a situation where dictation is convenient or will even work. Watch Calculator Professional comes to the rescue. With this app on your watch, you can use the complication for easy, convenient access. Tap the complication, and your calculator pops right up.

It’s just a simple calculator, there are no scientific functions here. I can’t imagine where that would fit on a watch face anyway. But for quick calculations, if you’re careful, it does the job.

There is no delete button; to delete your calculations simply force press anywhere on the screen and a Clear calculation option will show up. There is no cancel option, however, so you’d best be sure you want to delete everything before you do a force press.

It may be a little bit too simplistic, however. It would be nice to be able to calculate percentages, to figure out tips, for example.

My biggest complaint about the app is that it’s hard to tell when you’ve tapped the function keys hard enough. If you don’t tap a number effectively, you’ll know right away because the number doesn’t show up. However, if you don’t tap a function key hard enough, you won’t know until you continue the calculation and it doesn’t work. There is an animation (the key blinks out for a fraction of a second) that tells you you’ve hit it just right, but it’s very subtle and difficult to see with your finger on the button. If you hit it too hard, you’ll activate force press and the Clear calculation button; then you’ll have to delete the whole calculation and start over.

This is definitely not a perfect app, and in my opinion, calculations are always more effectively and efficiently done either with Siri or on your iPhone. But if you do want a nifty little calculator complication on your Apple Watch, Watch Calculator Professional for $0.99 is one worth checking out.