TextWatch vs Notes on Watch
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 :)
Notes on Watch
Quickly create and manage notes directly on your Apple Watch. This utility app allows for seamless note-taking on the go, syncing with your iPhone for easy access.
- Quick note creation
- Apple Watch integration
- iPhone syncing
- Easy note management
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This app lets you easily and quickly put notes on your Apple Watch
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Notes on Watch at 100% against TextWatch's 20%. Notes on Watch also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.3). TextWatch's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Notes on Watch holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TextWatch has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of TextWatch's written reviews are positive against 100% of Notes on Watch's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on August 2, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TextWatch | Notes on Watch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (27 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcel Hagmann | Scott Harrison |
Customer experience
TextWatch
Notes on Watch
In-app purchases
TextWatch
No in-app purchases
Notes on Watch
No in-app purchases
