TextWatch vs Digital Time
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 :)
Digital Time
Display the current digital time directly on analog watch faces. This app enhances glanceability for users who prefer analog aesthetics but need quick access to precise time information. Customize time and date formats to suit your preferences.
- Digital time on analog faces
- Customizable time formats
- Customizable date formats
- Available on all non-digital watch faces
- Enhances glanceability
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This complication shows the digital time on analog watch faces. Perfect for those who like the look of an analog face without losing the glanceability of a digital clock! This complication is available in all locations for each non-digital watch face. The time and date formats can be customized in the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TextWatch at none against Digital Time's 3. TextWatch also leads on rating (3.4 vs 2.9). Digital Time's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (36% vs 20%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Digital Time sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. TextWatch asks for nothing beyond the download.
TextWatch holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 80 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of TextWatch's written reviews are positive against 36% of Digital Time's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
TextWatch ships an update every 8 months, Digital Time every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TextWatch | Digital Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (29 ratings) — better | 2.9 (80 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 35.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 80 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcel Hagmann | Joseph Peplowski |
Customer experience
TextWatch
Digital Time
Bugs and requests
TextWatch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Digital Time
Reported bugs
22 issues- Time stops updating
- Time freezes after sleep mode
- Complication stuck at a particular time
- Time does not refresh
- App does not download or start working
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- App disappeared from watch/phone
- Unable to uninstall app
- 24-hour format displays incorrectly (e.g., 0:34 instead of 00:34)
- Time doesn't update after sleep mode
- Time complication is wrong
- Time freezes and doesn't update
- Digital time doesn't update instantly
- App shows purchased but not installed
- Time is stuck on 10:09
- Time is stuck on 11:10 pm
- Time is stuck on 10:09 am
- Time is stuck on Friday the 9th at 10:09 pm
- Time is stuck on 21:05
- Time is stuck at 5:38 AM
- Time is stuck on 8:38
- Time is stuck at 10:09 am Oct 9th
- Time is stuck on 24:34 instead of 00:34
Requested features
4 requests- Larger time display option
- Ability to change language of days/months
- Fix 24-hour format display (leading zero)
- Color matching for aesthetic bars
In-app purchases
TextWatch
No in-app purchases
Digital Time
- Tip Jar 1$0.99
- Tip Jar 3$2.99
- Tip Jar 5$4.99
