Simple Complications vs TextWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Complications
Display any online data as a complication on your Apple Watch. Track key metrics by pulling information from websites, RSS feeds, or APIs. Data can be shown as text, numbers, or images.
- Display online data as watch complications
- Pull data from websites, RSS, XML, JSON APIs
- Show data as text, number, or image
- Supports custom feed parsing
- Track key metrics
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Display any data available online as a complication on your Apple Watch. Keep track of a key metric. Pull data from a website, XML/RSS feed or plist or JSON API. Pulled data can be displayed as text, number or image. Examples include: - Displaying the latest in sports news from public RSS feeds like ESPN or Yahoo Sport. - Daily currency conversion rates - iTunes Top Song - Recent earthquakes - Daring Fireball blog entries, any blogs that support XML RSS feeds really - NASA image of the day Any online feed can be added and parsed according to custom requirements. To use non-secure (http) resources, please activate the http switch in the settings app under Simple C. If you have any questions related to a specific feed and how to parse it, just contact us. If you choose to purchase a SimpleC subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account.
TextWatch
Personalize your Apple Watch face with custom text reminders and messages. Easily create and sync single-line or multi-line items from your iPhone to your watch, then select which text to display.
- Custom text reminders
- Single-line and multi-line support
- iPhone and Apple Watch sync
- Watch face complication integration
- Easy item selection
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Create your positive reminders for your apple watch. This can be anything - you decide and create your texts that will show up on your apple watch. How to do it? 1. Add TextWatch as a complication to your watch face 2. Open the TextWatch app on your Apple Watch 3. Open TextWatch on your iPhone and create your single-line or multi-line items. The items get sync automatically to your watch. 4. Tap on the item that you want to be displayed on your watch face That's already it. Have fun creating your texts for your apple watch :) Do you want to give feedback? You miss something, and you have a good idea for the next update? Or you just want to show us your created text on your watch face? Send us an email to hagmannmarcel.developer@yahoo.com :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TextWatch at none against Simple Complications's 1. Simple Complications's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 20%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Simple Complications sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TextWatch asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for Simple Complications against 3.3 for TextWatch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 27 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 40% of Simple Complications's written reviews are positive against 20% of TextWatch's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Complications | TextWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (14 ratings) — better | 3.3 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Audioforge Labs Inc. | Marcel Hagmann |
Customer experience
Simple Complications
TextWatch
In-app purchases
Simple Complications
- Simple C annual subscription$1.99
TextWatch
No in-app purchases
Questions
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