TextWatch vs TimeGlance
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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 :)
TimeGlance
This app offers a customizable digital time display for your smartwatch face. It supports various time formats, date displays, and time zones, allowing for personalized watch face customization. The app functions independently of your phone.
- Digital time complication
- Multiple time formats (12/24 hour)
- Customizable date formats
- Time zone selection
- Standalone watch app
- Text color customization
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If the app does not show on your Watch after purchase please go to App Store on your watch (not phone) - scroll to bottom - Account - Purchased - and download from here. This app provides a digital time complication for all complication types on any watch face. - Updates every minute, always showing correct time - All complications and watch faces supported - Standalone watch app, all features can be used without your phone - Choose between 24 hour, 12 hour (AM/PM), or military time - Choose from 8 date formats from simple short ones to full dates, or hide the date. - Actual date format and language is localized to the region and language settings of your device - Time zone selection. Any ±24h offset from UTC or local time. - Set text color of complication (only works for multicolor watch faces) - Switch lines of time and date
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TextWatch at Free against TimeGlance's $0.99. TextWatch also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). TimeGlance's advantage is review sentiment (64% vs 20%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 months). On ads, 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
TextWatch is free to download; TimeGlance costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TimeGlance holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 107 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of TextWatch's written reviews are positive against 64% of TimeGlance's.
TextWatch ships an update every 8 months, TimeGlance every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TextWatch | TimeGlance |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.4 (29 ratings) | 3.7 (107 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 63.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 107 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #135 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcel Hagmann | Andras Solyom |
Customer experience
TextWatch
TimeGlance
Bugs and requests
TextWatch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
TimeGlance
Reported bugs
3 issues- Time getting stuck or showing incorrect time
- Complication disappearing after watch reset
- Issues with reinstalling the app
Requested features
4 requests- Option to hide time and show only date
- Ability to adjust font size
- More color customization options
- Support for multiple time zones
In-app purchases
TextWatch
No in-app purchases
TimeGlance
No in-app purchases
