Watch Faces vs Imagez
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Watch Faces
Personalize your Apple Watch with a vast collection of designer watch faces and customizable complications. Create your own designs or explore thousands of options, including weather data, countdowns, and battery widgets. Unlock premium content and remove ads with a subscription.
- Thousands of watch faces
- Design and customize watch faces
- Weather data and forecasts
- 1-Click Widgets (battery, WiFi)
- 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.
Imagez
Display any image as a large graphic complication on your Apple Watch face. Personalize your watch with photos of loved ones, pets, or inspiring designs, and add custom text for an even more unique look.
- Display any image on watch face
- Large graphic complication
- Personalize with photos
- Add custom text
- Supports family, pets, places, symbols, reminders, clubs, art
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Show any image as large graphic rectangular complication on your watch face ! Have a photo of your family, pet, favorite place, inspirational symbols, visual reminders, favorite sports club, artist or just artsy and funny design patterns on your watch face of your Apple Watch ! Add any kind to text to the images to make your watch face even more personal !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Watch Faces at Free against Imagez's $1.99. Watch Faces also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (5.7K vs 97). Imagez's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Watch Faces is free to download; Imagez costs $1.99 up front. Watch Faces sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Imagez asks for nothing beyond the download.
Watch Faces holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Watch Faces has 5.7K ratings behind it against 97, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Watch Faces's written reviews are positive against 37% of Imagez's.
Watch Faces ships an update weekly, Imagez every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Watch Faces | Imagez |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (5.7K ratings) — better | 3.7 (97 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.9% of reviews — better | 36.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.7K — better | 97 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 days |
| 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, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Watch Faces & Widgets | Marc Hofmann |
Customer experience
Watch Faces
Imagez
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
Imagez
From 97 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great idea for customization
- 💡 Ability to add photos to watch faces
- 👍 Easy to use when working
- 👍 Good functionality
- 👍 Superb saved image switching
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 App doesn't work on newer Apple Watch models
- 🐛 App doesn't open on Apple Watch
- 🐛 Images not loading on Apple Watch
- 🐛 App not showing up on watch or iPhone app
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
Imagez
Reported bugs
24 issues- App crashes after selecting and cropping picture
- App crashes when adding picture, resulting in black wallpaper
- App doesn't work on Apple Watch Ultra
- App doesn't work after restart of Apple Watch and iPhone
- App doesn't show up on watch or iPhone watch app
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- App on Apple Watch doesn't open at all
- App doesn't show pixel sizes for resizing
- Photo doesn't load on Apple Watch after reset
- Picture disappeared after a few days, showing multicolour logo
- App won't let add new pictures
- Images not transferable after update
- App resets images after every update
- iPhone not communicating with watch after update
- Selected image not displayed, only multicolour image
- App not working with watchOS 7.1
- App no longer working since iOS 4.2 and watch 7.1 update
- App doesn't work after upgrading to iPhone 12 and Apple Watch SE
- App crashes
- Image doesn't transfer without restarting iPhone and watch
- Picture doesn't work for Series 6
- Images never appear on the watch
- Doesn't work after first image
- Blank box shown instead of image
- App doesn't work for Series 3
Requested features
7 requests- Support for Apple Watch 3
- Ability to set complication in the center of 'extra large' watch face
- Option for random picture changes
- Different types of complications for other watch faces
- Shortcuts access for complication automation
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- Keep black background instead of grey
- Save created images after updates
In-app purchases
Watch Faces
- WatchMaker VIP3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- WatchMaker Unlimited$4.991 Month
- Monthly WatchMaker Pro1 Month trial$7.991 Month
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- WatchMaker VIP3 Days trial$7.997 Days
- Yearly WatchMaker Unlimited$19.991 Year
- Yearly WatchMaker Unlimited3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Yearly WatchMaker Pro3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Starter Pack!$0.99
- Paid Watchface!$0.99
- Paid Watchface$1.99
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- PRADO Watch Faces Volume 1$1.99
- WatchMaker Premium$5.99
- Lifetime Full Collection$6.99
- Premium for lifetime$9.99
- Lifetime WatchMaker Unlimited$12.99
Imagez
No in-app purchases
Questions
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