Watch Faces vs SmartKey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Watch Faces
Customize your Apple Watch with a vast library of over 150,000 watch faces. Create your own designs, share them with a community, and display useful complications like weather and battery status. Personalize your device for any occasion.
- 150,000+ custom watch faces
- Create and customize designs
- Share faces with community
- Weather data and forecasts
- One-tap widgets
- Countdown timers
- Health data complications
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WatchMaker, the #1 watch face platform in the world, with millions of smartwatch users, is finally available on iPhone and Apple Watch! Personalize your Apple Watch with over 150,000 watch faces and powerful complications. Features exclusive to WatchMaker: • Access a collection of over 150,000 watch faces • Discover new designs from creators around the world • Create your own watch faces or customize existing designs • Share your watch faces with friends and the WatchMaker community • Display weather data and forecasts • One-tap widgets including battery (watch and phone), Wi-Fi and more • Countdowns for birthdays, holidays, Christmas and special events • Personalize your Apple Watch with unique faces for every style and occasion Compatible with all Apple Watch models running supported versions of watchOS, including Apple Watch Ultra 3, Ultra 2, Ultra, Series 11, Series 10, Series 9, Series 8, Series 7, Series 6, SE (3rd generation), SE (2nd generation), SE (1st generation), Series 5, Series 4, Series 3, Series 2 and Series 1. Apple Watch Series 3 and older: some watch face styles may not work correctly due to watchOS limitations. Live Watch video faces are limited to 2 seconds and work only when the Always On Display feature is turned off. Privacy Policy: https://getwatchmaker.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://getwatchmaker.com/terms Requested Access Photos Required to save watch faces to your device and set them as Apple Watch faces. Notifications Required to receive updates, new content and app news. Calendar Used to display calendar events and information on watch faces. Apple Health (HealthKit) Used to display health and fitness data in complications, including active energy, activity, flights climbed, heart rate, steps and distance.
SmartKey
This app allows you to remotely unlock doors using an e-key, password, or other digital methods. You can monitor access logs and grant temporary or permanent e-keys to others.
- Unlock by e-key
- Unlock by password
- Monitor unlock records
- Share e-keys
- Remote access control
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Unlock by e-key,password,Monitor door unlock record, and Share e-key to others.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SmartKey at 100% against Watch Faces's 52%. SmartKey also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Watch Faces's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On price 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. Watch Faces sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. SmartKey asks for nothing beyond the download.
Watch Faces holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Watch Faces has 5.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Watch Faces's written reviews are positive against 100% of SmartKey's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Watch Faces ships an update every 8 days, SmartKey every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Watch Faces | SmartKey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (5.7K ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.7K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Watch Faces & Widgets | 斌 郭 |
Customer experience
Watch Faces
SmartKey
Bugs and requests
Watch Faces
Reported bugs
4 issues- Faces don't sync properly
- App crashes frequently
- Subscription issues
- Compatibility problems with newer watches
Requested features
5 requests- More free watch faces
- Better Apple Watch support
- Ability to save/export custom faces
- Improve weather integration
- Add more customization options
SmartKey
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Watch Faces
- WatchMaker VIP3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- WatchMaker VIP3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Yearly WatchMaker Pro3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Starter Pack!$0.99
- Paid Watchface!$0.99
- Paid Watchface$1.99
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- WatchMaker Premium$5.99
- Lifetime Full Collection$6.99
- Premium for lifetime$9.99
- Lifetime WatchMaker Unlimited$12.99
SmartKey
No in-app purchases
Questions
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