Hedy for Apple Watch: Your AI Meeting Assistant on Your Wrist
Hedy's AI meeting coach now comes to Apple Watch. Get real-time suggestions, control sessions, and capture highlights—all with a discreet glance at your wrist.
Looking at your phone during a meeting sends a signal—even when you’re checking Hedy’s coaching suggestions. A quick glance at your watch? That’s just checking the time. Starting today, Hedy’s AI meeting coach comes directly to your Apple Watch, making it the most discreet wearable AI assistant for professionals.
What the Hedy Apple Watch App Can Do
The Hedy Apple Watch app is a companion to the iOS app. It shows coaching suggestions and lets you control your sessions from your wrist, and since Hedy 3.13 it can also run a session by itself while your iPhone stays in your bag.
Control AI Meeting Sessions from Your Watch
Once your session is running on your iPhone, manage it from your wrist. Pause during a break, resume when you’re back, or stop the session when you’re done—all without picking up your phone again. Visual indicators show your current status at a glance: a pulsing red dot when recording, orange when paused, gray when idle.
Run a Session on Your Watch Alone
Since Hedy 3.13, the Watch can run a session by itself. Tap Start on Watch, lower your wrist, and the Watch microphone picks up the meeting while your iPhone stays in your bag or on your desk. When you tap Stop, the session goes to your iPhone. You import it there, and Hedy creates the transcript and summary. Coaching suggestions only show up during sessions running on your iPhone. The full steps are in the Apple Watch help article.
Real-Time AI Suggestions on Your Wrist
Hedy’s automatic suggestions now appear on your watch the moment they’re generated. A quick glance at your wrist—indistinguishable from checking the time—tells you there’s a strategic question worth asking or a point worth exploring further. Tap to expand the full suggestion. Others see someone glancing at their watch; you see your AI meeting assistant at work.
Capture Meeting Notes and Highlights Instantly
Hear something worth remembering? Tap once to create a highlight. No need to look down at your phone—the gesture is as subtle as adjusting your watch band. The highlight gets marked in your session for review later, becoming part of your searchable meeting notes.
Apple Watch Smart Stack Widget
The Hedy widget lives in your watchOS Smart Stack, surfacing automatically when it’s most relevant—like during an active session. At a glance, you see your latest coaching tip or session status. Tap to open the full smartwatch meeting app.
Hands-Free Voice Control with Siri
Use Siri for hands-free meeting control:
- “Start a meeting with Hedy” (requires iPhone app open)
- “Stop Hedy session”
- “Begin coaching with Hedy”
All commands integrate with the Shortcuts app, so you can build them into your own automations.
Built for Reliability
The watch app maintains a persistent connection with your iPhone. If you temporarily lose connection—walking between rooms, for instance—commands get queued and delivered automatically when the connection restores. Your session keeps running on your phone regardless.
Who Benefits from a Wearable AI Meeting Assistant
Anyone who wants AI coaching without the optics of checking their phone. In client meetings, board rooms, or one-on-ones, glancing at your watch reads differently than looking at your phone screen. The watch gives you a discreet window into Hedy’s suggestions while your phone handles the audio capture and meeting transcription.
People in longer sessions who start Hedy on their phone, then set it aside. Control playback and capture highlights from your wrist without picking up the phone again.
Professionals prioritizing Apple Watch productivity who want their wearable to do more than track fitness. Hedy turns your smartwatch into a genuine productivity tool for your most important conversations.
The Apple Watch app doesn’t replace the iPhone app. Your iPhone does the transcription and AI processing, whether the session ran on the phone or on the Watch. The watch just gives you a quieter way to start and steer a session.
Get Started
The Hedy Apple Watch app requires version 2.14 or later of the Hedy iPhone app. Once you’ve updated, there are two ways to install the watch app. To run a session on the Watch by itself, you need version 3.13 or later.
Automatic Installation
If you have Automatic App Install enabled, the Hedy watch app will install automatically when your iPhone app updates.
To check this setting:
- Open the Watch app on your iPhone
- Tap My Watch, then General
- Make sure Automatic App Install is turned on
Manual Installation
If automatic install is off, or if the app hasn’t appeared yet:
- Open the Watch app on your iPhone
- Tap My Watch and scroll down to Available Apps
- Find Hedy and tap Install
Once installed, open the Hedy watch app once to complete setup. You’re ready to go.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I start a Hedy session from my Apple Watch?
Yes. Tap Start on Watch to run the session on the Watch with its own microphone (Hedy 3.13 or later). Start on iPhone starts the session on your phone instead and needs the Hedy iPhone app open and on screen. While a session runs on your iPhone, you can control it entirely from your watch: pause, resume, stop, and create highlights.
Does the Apple Watch app work without my iPhone nearby?
Yes, for sessions you start with Start on Watch. The Watch holds on to the recording until your iPhone is back in range, then sends it over for you to import. For sessions running on your iPhone, the watch sends its commands to the phone. If you briefly lose the connection (walking between rooms, say), the commands wait and go through once it’s back, and the session keeps running on your phone either way.
What Apple Watch models are compatible with Hedy?
Hedy supports all Apple Watch models running watchOS 10 or later. This includes Apple Watch Series 4 and newer, Apple Watch SE (1st and 2nd generation), and Apple Watch Ultra models.
Does Hedy drain my Apple Watch battery?
The watch app is optimized for minimal battery impact. It only actively communicates with your iPhone during sessions, and the Smart Stack widget uses standard watchOS background refresh. Most users won’t notice any significant change in battery life. A session running on the Watch by itself uses more, about 3% of the Watch battery per hour in our tests.
Can I see my meeting transcription on the Apple Watch?
The watch app focuses on real-time coaching suggestions and session control. For full transcripts, summaries, and detailed meeting notes, use the Hedy iPhone app or web interface after your session.
AI coaching, as discreet as checking your watch.
About the author
Julian Pscheid is the founder and CEO of Hedy AI, a real-time AI meeting coach used by tens of thousands of professionals worldwide. He writes about how AI is changing the way people prepare for, capture, and understand important conversations.
