Watch Faces vs Themeology
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.
Themeology
Transform your device's lock screen with a vast collection of daily updated, interactive, and stunning animated wallpapers. Create your own unique backgrounds from GIFs or photos, and add elements like calendars to personalize your look.
- Daily updated wallpaper collections
- Animated and interactive backgrounds
- Create custom wallpapers from GIFs
- Animated photo collages
- Add calendars to wallpapers
- Categorized content for events and themes
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Themeology - complete iPhone themes with matching wallpaper, icons and widgets. Give your iPhone a whole new look. Pick a theme and get a matching wallpaper, icon pack and widgets, all designed to work together. Or build your own setup. Choose from hundreds of live wallpapers, loads of different icon styles and widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Everything is made to look good together - without the usual cheesy previews or gimmicks. FEATURES • Complete themes - matching wallpaper, icons and widgets, all in one place • 100+ app icons in every pack, covering popular apps in styles from minimal to neon • Home Screen & Lock Screen widgets - clocks, calendars, weather, checklists and more • Hundreds of live wallpapers - with new designs added every week • Made for iOS 26 - including wallpapers picked for Spatial Scene and Depth Effect • Make your own Live Wallpaper from a video in your Photos • Find your style - cosmic, neon, nature, animals, dark, minimal, ocean, cyberpunk and more • Ultra HD wallpapers - sized and cropped for your iPhone • iCloud sync - keep your favourites across your devices • Free to try - complete themes, plus free wallpapers, icons and widgets in every collection HOW IT WORKS Choose a theme and Themeology takes you through the setup. Your wallpaper is saved to Photos, the icons are added as shortcuts, and your widgets are ready to add from the widget gallery. Want to mix things up? Save any wallpaper you like and use it as a Live Photo on your Lock Screen. When you press the screen, it comes to life. You can also add widgets directly from your iPhone's Home Screen or Lock Screen to finish the look. PREMIUM Subscribe to unlock all themes, icon packs, widgets and wallpapers, including everything we add in the future. • 1 week with a 3-day free trial - from $3.99 USD/week • 1 year - from $19.99 USD/year Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in your Account Settings after purchase. If a free trial is offered, any unused portion is forfeited when you subscribe. Prices are shown in US dollars. Prices in other countries may vary and may be converted to your local currency. Terms of Use: https://themeology.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://themeology.app/privacy PERMISSIONS Photos - needed to save wallpapers to your photo library so you can use them on your Home Screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Watch Faces at free with in-app purchases against Themeology's subscription. Watch Faces also leads on review sentiment (52% vs 17%) and ratings volume (5.7K vs 649). Themeology's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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 and Themeology sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Watch Faces against 4.5 for Themeology. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Watch Faces has 5.7K ratings behind it against 649, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 52% of Watch Faces's written reviews are positive against 17% of Themeology's.
Watch Faces ships an update every 8 days, Themeology every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Watch Faces | Themeology |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (5.7K ratings) | 4.5 (649 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.7% of reviews — better | 17.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.7K — better | 649 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Watch Faces & Widgets | Potato Powered Games Ltd |
Customer experience
Watch Faces
Themeology
User reviews
Watch Faces
From 5.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great watch faces
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Lots of options
- 👍 Excellent app
- 👍 Fantastic choice
Room to improve
- 🐛 Faces don't stay on watch
- 🐛 Complications don't work
- 🐛 Hands don't move
- 🐛 Not compatible with Apple Watch
- 🐛 Misleading, just static images
Themeology
From 649 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Beautiful and stunning animated wallpapers
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 📚 Large array of wallpapers with multiple categories
- ✨ Calendar customization feature available
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive subscription model ($8/week)
- 📺 Excessive ads and aggressive ad pop-ups
- 🐛 App fails to load wallpapers consistently
- 💾 Error messages when saving wallpapers
- 🚫 Difficult to cancel subscription
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
Themeology
Reported bugs
5 issues- Wallpapers fail to load (rotating circle/infinite loading)
- Error when attempting to save wallpapers
- App crashes and hangs on iPhone devices
- Wallpapers don't actually animate as promised
- App performance degradation over time
Requested features
4 requests- Pay-per-wallpaper model instead of subscription
- Lower subscription pricing
- Improved search functionality
- Better content filtering and organization
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
Themeology
- Weekly Unlimited3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Weekly Wallpapers Unlimited3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Monthly Wallpapers Unlimited$19.991 Month
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- Yearly Unlimited$19.991 Year
- Yearly Wallpapers Unlimited$49.991 Year
- Lifetime Wallpapers Unlimited$94.99
Questions
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