Comparison

TextWatch vs keyboardSTT

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Custom text reminders
  • Single-line and multi-line support
  • iPhone and Apple Watch sync
  • Watch face complication integration
  • Easy item selection
Features
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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 :)

About

keyboardSTT

Features
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Type with your voice, anywhere on iPhone. keyboardSTT is a private, on-device dictation keyboard. Tap the mic and speak in any app — Messages, Mail, Notes, Safari, Slack — and get fast, accurate text inserted right at the cursor. No cloud uploads, no account, no subscription. It just works, even in airplane mode. BUILT FOR SPEED & PRIVACY • 100% on-device speech-to-text powered by Parakeet running on the Apple Neural Engine • Works offline — perfect for flights, bad Wi-Fi, or private thoughts • No account, no tracking, your audio never leaves your iPhone • 25+ languages with automatic detection (Multilingual model) or ultra-accurate English-only mode DICTATE YOUR WAY • Dictation Keyboard: full QWERTY keyboard with mic key — type and dictate in any app • Siri + Action Button: say “Hey Siri, dictate with keyboardSTT” or press your Action Button to start instantly • Floating Overlay: keep talking while you switch apps — text is copied to your clipboard automatically • Notes Inbox: every dictation is saved as a searchable note with titles, previews, and one-tap copy MADE FOR IPHONE • Native iOS design with large titles, swipe-to-delete, system search, and Dark Mode • Haptic feedback on every tap (with mute toggle) • Words-per-day stats, streaks, time saved, and earnable badges • System / Light / Dark appearance picker HOW TO ENABLE THE KEYBOARD 1. Open iPhone Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard > keyboardSTT 2. Turn on Allow Full Access 3. In any app, tap the globe key to switch to keyboardSTT, then tap the mic to dictate Private. Fast. Offline. Download keyboardSTT and stop typing. Requires iPhone or iPad running iOS 17 or later. First launch downloads the on-device AI model once (~480 MB over Wi-Fi), then everything runs locally forever.

Screenshots

TextWatch4 screens
keyboardSTT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: TextWatch at 3 against keyboardSTT's 1. TextWatch also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TextWatch versus keyboardSTT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextWatchkeyboardSTT
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (29 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarcel HagmannNoah M

In-app purchases

None

TextWatch

No in-app purchases

None

keyboardSTT

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TextWatch free?
TextWatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is keyboardSTT free?
keyboardSTT is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TextWatch or keyboardSTT have ads?
Neither TextWatch nor keyboardSTT shows ads.

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