The best thing about Pebble’s app selection is also the worst: the apps on it are really, really geeky.

On the plus side, you’ll find all manner of inventive solutions to common problems. Want to control Sonos from your Pebble? You got it. Want to see a list of the nearest bus stops with accurate arrival info? No problem.

The downside is that many of these apps have to work around the limitations of Pebble’s platform, the size of the screen and the navigation options on offer. Take the Sonos example, which you can do via a couple of apps.

The one I tried was Pebbos: it’s free, and it works, allowing you to skip or pause tracks from your wrist. Great for if you’re cooking or something and don’t want to keep getting your phone out of your pocket.

To use it, though, you need to manually input the IP address of your Sonos players, and you don’t get any track info whatsoever. It’s all a far cry from Apple Watch - albeit an entirely understandable one.

The best apps are the ones you’ll probably use most often anyway: music control, calendar notifications, weather and so on.

Music, whether via Pebble’s built-in app or a third-party offering such as Music Boss, is handled particularly well - start up Spotify on your phone and it’ll kick into life on your watch immediately, with full track info, volume controls and skip/pause buttons.

You can get apps that integrate with your Hue lightbulbs and work with your Evernote account, there are official apps for the likes of Uber and TripAdvisor and there are plenty of other crazy things out there, from mood-logging apps to games. Yes, games on a 144x168-pixel monochrome screen.

Finally, there are a ton of watchfaces. The pre-installed ones do the job fine (Revolution is clearly the best of them) but of the third-party options there are faces which integrate your heath stats, animated faces, faces that can be fully customised and faces with Mario on them. You won’t lack choice.