Player for Watch

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

- 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.