7 Standout Google Glass Apps You Can Download Right Now

By Emily Price

Standout Apps for Google Glass

  1. Google Glass may not have full Facebook functionality yet, but it does have a way to share photos to Facebook. A third-party app appropriately named “Glass to Facebook” makes your Facebook account a contact within Glass, and allows you to share photos you take to your Facebook wall.

    Glass To Facebook

    Google Glass may not have full Facebook functionality yet, but it does have a way to share photos to Facebook. A third-party app appropriately named “Glass to Facebook” makes your Facebook account a contact within Glass, and allows you to share photos you take to your Facebook wall.

  2. Glass Tweet is a bare bones third-party Twitter client for Glass that makes users twitter accounts a contact within Glass, allowing them to share tweets to their Twitter timeline much like they might send a photo to a friend.

    Glass Tweet

    Glass Tweet is a bare bones third-party Twitter client for Glass that makes users twitter accounts a contact within Glass, allowing them to share tweets to their Twitter timeline much like they might send a photo to a friend.

  3. Glass Explorer Malcolm Nguyen published one of the first apps for Glass. An app called Reddit Timeline, the app provides much of the Reddit web experience on Glass. With the app you can swipe through the top 25 FrontPage posts, upvote or downvote, and comment. If you see something worth sharing while you’re out and about, you can share directly to Reddit from Google Glass as well.

    Reddit Timeline

    Glass Explorer Malcolm Nguyen published one of the first apps for Glass. An app called Reddit Timeline, the app provides much of the Reddit web experience on Glass. With the app you can swipe through the top 25 FrontPage posts, upvote or downvote, and comment. If you see something worth sharing while you’re out and about, you can share directly to Reddit from Google Glass as well.

  4. Created at a medical hackathon, MedRef brings facial recognition to Google Glass. Designed for hospital employees, the app can bring up information such as a patient’s folder, along with notes about that particular person—just by looking at them.

    MedRef For Glass

    Created at a medical hackathon, MedRef brings facial recognition to Google Glass. Designed for hospital employees, the app can bring up information such as a patient’s folder, along with notes about that particular person—just by looking at them.

  5. Created by Mike DiGiovanni, Winky is a Google Glass app that lets you take photos with Glass by winking rather than saying “Glass take a photo” or using the shutter button on the device. The app was released as pure Android source code, and has to be complied and run as an APK on Glass in order to work --- so it’s not for amateurs.

    Winky

    Created by Mike DiGiovanni, Winky is a Google Glass app that lets you take photos with Glass by winking rather than saying “Glass take a photo” or using the shutter button on the device. The app was released as pure Android source code, and has to be complied and run as an APK on Glass in order to work --- so it’s not for amateurs.

  6. Glassagram is Instagram of sorts for Glass. To use the app, you simply share a photo you’ve taken with Glass with the app, much like you might share an image with a contact. Glassagram applies all the filters you’ve selected with it to that picture and sends a bundle of filtered images back to you that can then be shared with friends.

    Glassagram

    Glassagram is Instagram of sorts for Glass. To use the app, you simply share a photo you’ve taken with Glass with the app, much like you might share an image with a contact. Glassagram applies all the filters you’ve selected with it to that picture and sends a bundle of filtered images back to you that can then be shared with friends.

  7. Fullscreen BEAM is the first YouTube app for Google Glass. The app creates a contact for your YouTube account, and lets you share videos you record using Glass to that contact, which in turn posts that video to your YouTube page where you can share it with others.

    Fullscreen BEAM

    Fullscreen BEAM is the first YouTube app for Google Glass. The app creates a contact for your YouTube account, and lets you share videos you record using Glass to that contact, which in turn posts that video to your YouTube page where you can share it with others.

Google Glass is a whole new breed of tech hardware, and along with it is coming a whole new world of mobile apps.

Out of the box Glass comes loaded with Gmail, Path, the New York Times and Google Now. Along with the Glass hardware, early adopters are also given access to the Glass API to develop their own apps –- called ‘Glassware’ — for the platform. Even though the first developers only got access to Glass a few weeks ago, we’ve started to see quite a few apps pop up for the high-tech glasses

Since Glass is an entirely new app ecosystem, it’s been interesting to see what sorts of apps people make first.

A few of the early apps have just brought basic functionality to Glass, allowing you to do things like share a photo to Facebook or Twitter, or upload a video to YouTube. A few others have really capitalized on the platform, creating Glass-specific apps that take advantage of the uniqueness of Glass to create something new and different.

We’re definitely still in the early stages of development for Glass. I suspect we’ll start to see a lot more Glass apps show up after Google I/O this week, but for now, here’s a list of some of my favorites from the first batch of apps to show up for the platform.

Have you seen an awesome app for Google Glass not on the list? Tell us about it in the comments.

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