Comparison

textboard2 vs Wrist Codes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

textboard2

Organize your thoughts, tasks, and data with a smart tagging system. This app offers a streamlined interface for jotting down notes and retrieving them easily. Customize your experience with visual themes and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Organize thoughts with tags
  • All notes on one board
  • Easy tag-based retrieval
  • Customizable visual themes
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Refined interface for quick access
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textboard2 provides the smartest way to clear your mind. Using tags, you can organize your thoughts, tasks, executions, data, and more. [ Main Features ] * the board. ​​The players are your thoughts turned into text. Whatever short or long, one line or multi-lines, you can add. They are all listed in one board. Check with just scrolling. * tags. Reminders, snippets, drafts, and more. Your text is neatly organized by adding 'tags' so that you can easily pick up and reuse by coping to pasteboard. * themes. ​Initially 4 visual themes are available as a start. Easy to change them at any time, and have fun with your mood. More will be added by update soon. * sync. Just turn on iCloud and now you will be able to back up your text and use in other iDevices. Mac app is also coming soon. Upgraded features from the previous version *refined interface / logics ​From many use cases, more quicker access to the controls and are built and tested. Now much more addictive for daily use. *upcoming features - Integrating more input methods (mac, keyboard, etc.) ​- Supporting more viewer devices (watch, etc.) - Shop - buyable utilities, themes

About

Wrist Codes

Easily store and access your loyalty cards, membership passes, and QR codes on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Quickly scan or manually enter codes, then display them directly from your watch face, widgets, or the app for seamless scanning.

Highlights
  • Store barcodes on iPhone
  • Scan or manually enter codes
  • Sync to Apple Watch
  • Display on watch face complications
  • Full-screen barcode view
  • Customize watch complications
Features
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Wrist Codes keeps your everyday barcodes close at hand on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Add loyalty cards, membership cards, passes, QR codes, and other scan codes, then open them quickly from the app, an iPhone widget, an Apple Watch widget, or a watch face complication. Features: • Store frequently used barcodes on your iPhone • Scan a barcode with the camera or enter it manually • Sync saved barcodes to Apple Watch • Display barcodes directly on Apple Watch through widgets, complications, or the app • Display barcodes on your iPhone through widgets or the app • Customize the small complication's letters and color • Style the large complication: white card or straight on the watch face, with or without the name and number, in white or your watch face's tint • View barcodes full screen for easier scanning Wrist Codes is designed for the codes you need often, without digging through apps or your wallet.

Screenshots

textboard24 screens
Wrist Codes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Wrist Codes at 5.0 against textboard2's 4.7. textboard2's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wrist Codes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: textboard2 has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

textboard2 ships an update fortnightly, Wrist Codes every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
textboard2 versus Wrist Codes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametertextboard2Wrist Codes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB11 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developeryoshito hasakaVitalii Petrychuk

Customer experience

textboard2

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Wrist Codes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

textboard2

No in-app purchases

None

Wrist Codes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is textboard2 free?
textboard2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wrist Codes free?
Wrist Codes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, textboard2 or Wrist Codes?
Wrist Codes is rated higher. textboard2 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Wrist Codes averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do textboard2 or Wrist Codes have ads?
Neither textboard2 nor Wrist Codes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, textboard2 or Wrist Codes?
textboard2 ships an update fortnightly, and Wrist Codes every 9 days. Most recently, textboard2 was updated on October 24, 2026 and Wrist Codes on October 23, 2026.

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