Watch Faces & Widget Gallery vs HRV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Watch Faces & Widget Gallery
Discover and install thousands of unique, customizable watch faces and widgets for your Apple Watch. Personalize your device with complication-based designs, wallpaper styles, and even your own photos. Enjoy regular free updates and a smooth, one-tap installation process.
- Thousands of customizable watch faces
- Complication-based designs
- Wallpaper-style faces
- Create faces with your own photos
- One-tap installation
- Free collections updated regularly
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Give your Apple Watch a look that's all you. With more than 2,000 watch faces, from wallpapers to complications, Watch Faces & Widget Gallery lets you match your watch to your style, your day, and your mood. Browse collections curated by theme and loved by Apple Watch fans, preview every detail, and add the face that feels like you in a few taps. And now, adding a face is smoother and more reliable than ever. Here's what you can add: • Complication faces: Built on Modular, Modular Duo, Modular Ultra, Infograph, and Meridian, they show live info such as activity, steps, heart rate, weather, and the date. Requires PRO. • Wallpaper faces: Built on the Photos watch face, they fill your display with a design you love. Many are free, and premium designs require PRO. • Complications and widgets: Add our complications to your watch faces and our widgets to the Smart Stack on Apple Watch. Whether you want something bold for the weekend, clean for the office, or sporty for your next run, you'll find a face that fits. Why Watch Faces & Widget Gallery? • More than a wallpaper. Complication faces are complete watch faces with live info, while wallpaper faces set a design behind the time. • Know before you add. Every preview shows which Apple Watch models a face works with. • Always something new. Fresh faces arrive regularly, so your watch can change as often as you do. • Free to start. Download, browse, and add many wallpaper faces for free. Requires iPhone with iOS 17 or later and Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later. With your permission, some complications use Health, location, and calendar data. If you love Watch Faces & Widget Gallery, try PRO. Unlock every complication face and premium wallpaper with a weekly, monthly, or yearly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase, or when a free trial ends. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, is forfeited when you subscribe. Privacy Policy: https://watchfaces.co/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://watchfaces.co/terms-and-conditions/ Contact: https://watchfaces.co/contact/
HRV
This app analyzes heart rate variability from Apple Health and Apple Watch to provide actionable insights into your daily stress, energy levels, sleep quality, and recovery. It uses scientific visualizations and dual HRV metrics to help you understand your autonomic nervous system activity.
- Dual HRV metrics (SDNN + RMSSD)
- All-day stress curve
- Energy (Body Resources) reserve tracking
- Nightly Sleep Score
- Personalized Recovery score
- Interactive trend charts
- Apple Watch complications
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HRV Tracker — private, on-device insights from your iPhone and Apple Watch. Turn heart-rate variability, heart rate, sleep and activity data from Apple Health into clear views of stress, recovery and energy. Track both SDNN and RMSSD, calculated from available beat-to-beat intervals. iPHONE APP • Home dashboard for HRV, Recovery, Sleep Score, Stress, Energy, Activity, heart rate and weight • Today view comparing your day so far with your usual pattern at the same hour • Detailed HRV, Sleep, Activity, Strain and Weight views • Behaviour logging for habits such as alcohol and caffeine • Daily and weekly coaching • Interactive daily, weekly, monthly and yearly charts PERSONAL INSIGHTS Explore which parts of your routine are associated with changes in HRV, sleep, stress and other measurements. • Influences screened against chance • Stronger findings separated from preliminary and descriptive patterns • Combined effects for pairs of behaviours • “Moving Together” comparisons between health metrics • U-shaped relationships • “Compare Everything” matrix and influence explorer • Personal experiments in Labs Insights describe associations; they do not prove cause and effect. TODAY & COACH Compare today’s readings with similar hours from your history. Coaching can consider sleep, recovery, stress, energy, activity and events such as workouts, late coffee or mindfulness. A separate note summarizes the previous seven days. AI-written coaching requires an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone running iOS 26 or later, with Apple Intelligence enabled and available for your device language. Other devices retain their scores, insights and standard app-written coaching summaries. Coaching is generated locally; health information is not sent to an external AI service. KEY SCORES Stress — A continuous 0–100 physiological-load score. When both signals are available, it combines 40% HRV with 60% heart rate. It continues with heart rate alone when no nearby RMSSD exists. The curve shades sleep, excludes workouts and identifies missing watch periods. Stress reflects physiological activation, not emotional stress. Energy — An all-day 0–100 estimate of how much you have “in the tank.” It recharges during sleep, taking Sleep Score and sleep stages into account, and responds to calm, stress and physical effort. Compare it with your usual reserve at the same time. Sleep Score — A nightly 0–100 score blending duration (35%), continuity (25%) and restfulness (40%). Restfulness considers overnight HRV, heart rate and physiological load. Scores personalize as your history grows. Recovery — Compares RMSSD with your history at a similar time of day. iPhone uses up to 30 previous days without including a reading in its own reference. Apple Watch uses a shorter local history, so its quick score may differ. Activity — Combines movement with sustained effort. Workout load uses heart rate when enough readings are available; otherwise it is estimated from workout type and duration, so yoga is not treated like intense cardio. The Activity page shows what contributed to the score. APPLE WATCH • Native Recovery and Stress views • SDNN and RMSSD at a glance • Stress and HRV charts • Complications and widgets • RMSSD from available heartbeat series • Support for dense chest-strap readings • Cached baseline for faster opening DATA & PRIVACY HRV Tracker analyzes Apple Health data on your devices. Your health history is not uploaded to an HRV Tracker server. AFib History on a compatible Apple Watch greatly increases beat-to-beat sampling and is strongly recommended for complete RMSSD, Stress, Energy and Recovery views. With infrequent measurements, some curves and insights may remain incomplete. HRV Tracker is intended for personal information and wellness. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat any condition.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HRV at 100% against Watch Faces & Widget Gallery's 43%. HRV also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Watch Faces & Widget Gallery's advantage is ratings volume (24K vs 5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Watch Faces & Widget Gallery sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and HRV sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HRV holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Watch Faces & Widget Gallery has 24K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Watch Faces & Widget Gallery's written reviews are positive against 100% of HRV's.
Watch Faces & Widget Gallery ships an update weekly, HRV every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Watch Faces & Widget Gallery | HRV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (24K ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hyperday MB | Philippe Gerin |
Customer experience
Watch Faces & Widget Gallery
HRV
Bugs and requests
Watch Faces & Widget Gallery
Reported bugs
4 issues- Syncing issues
- Paid faces not working as expected
- Inability to delete app
- Complications not functioning
Requested features
4 requests- More digital clock faces
- Ability to move time/date display
- Live/animated watch faces
- Custom watch face creation
HRV
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Watch Faces & Widget Gallery
- Unlimited Access$2.991 Month
- Unlimited Access$3.991 Month
- Unlimited Access3 Days trial$4.997 Days
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- Kudos Annual Subscription3 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Live Watch Faces - Annual3 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Unlimited Access3 Days trial$8.991 Year
- Unlimited Access3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Watch Faces Pro3 Days trial$13.991 Year
- Live Watch Faces - Annual$14.991 Year
- Unlimited Access3 Days trial$17.991 Year
- Annual Pro Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
HRV
- Bronze Supporter$1.99
- Bronze Supporter Tier$1.99
- Silver Supporter2 variants$4.99
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- Gold Supporter2 variants$11.99
- Platinum Supporter2 variants$44.99
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