Runtastic Pro: For when you don’t want to track a workout while carrying a phone [‘Watch’ This App]

Taking your phone on a workout is obnoxious at best, and damaging to your phone at worst. You run the risk of water damage or some unfortunate fall, while also having to carry around a clunky, and during a particularly hard work out, a pretty heavy device.

The Runtastic Pro app could be the app that gets mitigates that problem. It’s an app that tracks your workouts, sync them with Google Fit, share your workouts with Twitter, and even control your music right from the app. Best of all it’s compatible with Sony smartwatches, meaning that if you’re someone who needs to track their workouts but don’t want to carry a phone you can now track it with your watch.

If you have $4.99, a Sony smarrtwatch, and hate carrying your phone on runs then it’s high time you take a look at Runtastic Pro.

‘Watch’ This App is a regular series of articles designed to showcase apps and games which Android Wear owners might be interested in checking out. Updated roughly once per day, it’s our way of alerting readers to cool ways to get more from their smartwatch.