WatchTheTime vs TextWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WatchTheTime
Customize your Apple Watch with a variety of digital time and date complications. Personalize colors, formats, and even offsets to create a unique watch face. Supports multiple complications and all Apple Watch styles.
- Digital time and date complications
- AM/PM toggle
- Color customization
- Custom date formats
- Multiple complications
- 24-hour format support
- Time/date offset
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This app allows you to: - Choose a date and/or digital time complication for your Apple Watch - Enable AM/PM on digital time complication - Change the color (where available) for both the date and the digital time Apple Watch complications - Change the date format from default options, or specify a custom format - Use multiple Apple Watch complications at the same time - Support for all complication styles, including Apple Watch Series 4 complications - 24-time format - Support for your Apple Watch's language - Custom time/date offset by hour and minute Requires: - Compatible Apple Watch running watchOS 4+ - Compatible iPhone paired to Apple Watch
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 review sentiment: WatchTheTime at 57% against TextWatch's 20%. WatchTheTime also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months) and rating (3.6 vs 3.4). TextWatch's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WatchTheTime holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 29 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of WatchTheTime's written reviews are positive against 20% of TextWatch's.
WatchTheTime ships an update every 2 weeks, TextWatch every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WatchTheTime | TextWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (39 ratings) — better | 3.4 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 29 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Dama | Marcel Hagmann |
Customer experience
WatchTheTime
TextWatch
In-app purchases
WatchTheTime
No in-app purchases
TextWatch
No in-app purchases
