Week Watch vs Widget Brightness
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Week Watch
Easily track the current week number on your Apple Watch face or iPhone/iPad home screen. View past and future weeks with a simple swipe. Adheres to the international ISO 8601 standard for week numbering.
- Apple Watch complication for instant week number display
- Home screen widget for iPhone and iPad
- Swipe functionality to view past and future weeks
- ISO 8601 international standard compliance
- Supports Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad
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Keep Track of the Week Number — Right on Your Wrist and Home Screen! Stay organized with the current week number displayed directly on your Apple Watch face! With this app, you can always see the week number at a glance - no need to unlock your phone. Key Features: • Apple Watch Complication: Display the current week number right on your watch face as a complication, so it’s always visible without extra steps. • Home Screen Widget: On iPhone and iPad, a handy widget shows the current week number in the Today view or directly on your Home Screen (available in iOS 14 and later). • Swipe for More Weeks: In the app, you can easily view past and upcoming weeks by swiping left or right. • International Standard (ISO 8601): The week number follows the international ISO 8601 standard, used widely across the world. How to Add the Widget to Your Home Screen on the iPhone: 1. Touch and hold an empty area on your iPhone or iPad Home Screen until the apps start to jiggle. 2. Tap the ”+” button in the upper-left corner of the screen. 3. Search for the Week Number widget in the widget gallery, or scroll through to find it. 4. Tap “Add Widget.” 5. Drag the widget to your desired location on the Home Screen and tap “Done” in the top-right corner to finalize the placement. Have any feedback or just want to share some love? Feel free to contact me at: daniel@rostsolutions.com
Widget Brightness
Control your device's screen brightness directly from a widget. Quickly adjust brightness levels without opening the application, offering convenient access to screen settings.
- Adjust brightness from widget
- Direct brightness control
- URL scheme support
- Set specific brightness levels via URL
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This app can change the brightness simply in widget. You can directly change the brightness adjustment. URL scheme: Open app: widgetbrightness:// Open app and set brightness. widgetbrightness://update/0 widgetbrightness://update/25 widgetbrightness://update/50 widgetbrightness://update/75 widgetbrightness://update/100
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Widget Brightness at 2.3 against Week Watch's 1.0. Widget Brightness also leads on review sentiment (10% vs 0%) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). Week Watch's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Week Watch costs $0.99 and Widget Brightness $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Widget Brightness holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Brightness has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Week Watch's written reviews are positive against 10% of Widget Brightness's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Week Watch | Widget Brightness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 2.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 10.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.3 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rost Solutions | KENICHI IIDA |
Customer experience
Week Watch
Widget Brightness
In-app purchases
Week Watch
No in-app purchases
Widget Brightness
No in-app purchases
Questions
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