Wand: Yoga & Pilates Remote

Wand turns your Apple Watch into the remote for the workout video playing on your iPad: yoga, Pilates, barre, HIIT, mobility, or any class you follow along at home.

Open a video on the iPad, step back onto your mat, and run it from your wrist. Play and pause, skip back or forward fifteen seconds, slow it down or speed it up, end the session. No wet hands on the screen, no getting up mid-pose.

The connection is direct. Your watch talks to your iPad over Bluetooth, with no iPhone in the middle and no server. It keeps working when your phone is in another room.

A REAL WORKOUT, COUNTED IN YOUR RINGS

While you practise, the watch records a workout. Heart rate and active energy go to Apple Health and count toward your Activity rings, as with any workout app. Pick from 79 activity types, including Yoga, Pilates, Barre, HIIT, Core Training, Tai Chi and Functional Strength Training.

During a workout, your heart rate can be drawn over the video on the iPad, big enough to read from the mat. Show it always, only above a limit you set, or never.

THREE KINDS OF SESSION
• Workout: a Health workout with heart rate and active energy
• Meditation: saved to Health as mindful minutes, with no workout and no rings
• No session: the remote only, nothing written to Health — for a lecture, a recipe or a tutorial

WHAT YOU CAN PLAY
• Video files you open from Files or iCloud Drive
• YouTube links you paste in

Both work the same way from the watch. Wand brings no content of its own: no catalog, nothing to browse. Your classes, your videos.

ON THE WATCH
• Play and pause, also with Double Tap on watches that support it
• Back and forward 15 seconds
• Speed from 0.75x to 1.5x
• It tells you when a press did not reach the iPad, and why a video stopped
• Elapsed time and your heart rate on your wrist
• It finds your iPad by itself, or your iPhone once you switch on watch control in Wand's Settings there

YOUR HISTORY, ON YOUR DEVICES

Wand keeps a log of what you watched in the sessions you start from your watch, grouped by session, with how long each clip ran and whether it was linked to a Health workout. It syncs through your own iCloud account to your other devices, it is searchable, and a Delete all data button removes it everywhere. Star the YouTube clips you come back to and they are one tap away next time.

ALSO
• Play, pause and skip from the Lock Screen and Control Center
• The screen stays awake while a video plays or a session runs
• Light, dark, or follow the device; the video is always on black

FREE, AND WHAT WAND PRO ADDS

Playing a clip on the iPad is free and stays free. Your first three sessions from the watch are free too, so you can feel the remote and the workout on your own mat before deciding.

Wand Pro unlocks the watch remote, workouts in Health, your history with iCloud sync, and favourites. It is available as an auto-renewing subscription or as a one-time purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage it in your Apple Account settings.

PRIVACY

No account and no advertising. Wand sends anonymous usage events and crash reports to help improve the app; they never include what you watch, video titles, links or your heart rate.

WHAT YOU NEED

An iPad or an iPhone, and an Apple Watch. The watch app installs through the iPhone paired to your watch, so you need that iPhone once for setup. YouTube playback needs an internet connection.

Wand shows heart rate from your Apple Watch. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose anything.

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