Comparison

Widget Brightness vs Wristmate

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Adjust brightness from widget
  • Direct brightness control
  • URL scheme support
  • Set specific brightness levels via URL
Features
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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

About

Wristmate

Personalize your Apple Watch face with custom photo complications and one-tap shortcuts for frequently used actions. Turn photos into interactive buttons to launch workouts, call contacts, or create notes instantly.

Highlights
  • Custom photo complications
  • One-tap Quick Actions
  • Automatic photo rotation
  • Customizable tint colors
  • iCloud syncing
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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Make your Apple Watch yours - with custom photo complications and a one-tap launcher for the things you do most. Wristmate turns your watch face into something personal and useful. Build photo complications from your own pictures, then wire them to instant actions. Tap your dog's photo to start a walk. Tap your kid's photo to call the sitter. It's your watch, your way. PHOTO COMPLICATION SETS • Build complications from your own photos - circular, rectangular, and corner slots. • Crop, zoom, and rotate each photo to fit the slot perfectly. • Rotate through a set automatically - every 15 minutes, every 30, hourly, daily, or when you open the app. • Add a custom color border to make a complication pop. A LAUNCHER FOR EVERYTHING YOU REACH FOR Fill your watch with one-tap Quick Actions - pick from ten and arrange them your way: • Start Workout - jump straight into the Apple Watch Workout app for your chosen activity. • Call Contact - call someone in a single tap. • Message Contact - fire off a pre-filled message. • Search Maps - launch a saved Maps search. • Quick Note - dictate a note from your wrist. • Quick Reminder - dictate a reminder straight to your iPhone's Reminders. • Tally Counter - count anything: laps, reps, coffees, scores. • Coin Flip - heads or tails, settled. • Dice Roll - roll the dice (your choice of sides). • Ask The Orb - ask, shake, get your answer. TAP-THROUGH MAGIC Wire any photo complication to a Quick Action. Tap the photo on your watch face and the action runs instantly - no menus, no digging. MADE TO BE YOURS • Custom tint colors for every shortcut, shared with the set border picker. • Pick a color once, use it anywhere. • Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud. PRIVACY Workout actions use Apple HealthKit only to launch the Workout app - Wristmate never reads or stores your health data. Quick Note and Quick Reminder save to your own Notes and Reminders. Your photos stay yours. Download Wristmate and make your wrist work for you.

Screenshots

Widget Brightness2 screens
Wristmate3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wristmate at 67% against Widget Brightness's 10%. Wristmate also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Widget Brightness's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Widget Brightness costs $1.99 and Wristmate $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wristmate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of Widget Brightness's written reviews are positive against 67% of Wristmate's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widget Brightness ships an update every 2 months, Wristmate weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Widget Brightness versus Wristmate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget BrightnessWristmate
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Rating2.3 (6 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings66
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS9.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKENICHI IIDAMinorbits LLC

Customer experience

Widget Brightness

All ratings6 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive10.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative90.0%

Wristmate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Widget Brightness

No in-app purchases

None

Wristmate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Widget Brightness free?
Widget Brightness costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wristmate free?
Wristmate costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Widget Brightness or Wristmate?
Wristmate is rated higher. Widget Brightness averages 2.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Wristmate averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Widget Brightness or Wristmate have ads?
Neither Widget Brightness nor Wristmate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Widget Brightness or Wristmate?
Widget Brightness ships an update every 2 months, and Wristmate weekly. Most recently, Widget Brightness was updated on November 2, 2026 and Wristmate on November 5, 2026.

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