Watch Faces Gallery & Creator vs HRV
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Watch Faces Gallery & Creator
Personalize your Apple Watch with a vast gallery of unique watch faces or create your own using a powerful editor. Features include custom photos, templates, stickers, and widgets for data like steps and calendar. Compatible with all Apple Watch versions.
- Extensive gallery of over 16,000 watch faces
- Create custom watch faces with photo uploads
- Editor for templates, stickers, filters, and text
- Widgets for steps, calendar, time, and photos
- Compatible with all Apple Watch versions
- Weekly updates with new designs and categories
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Watch Faces Gallery & Creator gives you the ability to personalize your Apple Watch faces! Choose a watch face from a large, unique and exclusive collection or create your own watch face! OVER 16,000 WATCH FACES We've put together a large collection of watch faces for everyone! Different styles, colors and designs! ORIGINAL DESIGN Our designers study all the trends and requests of our users every day. We select the best ideas and develop our own designs. COOL WATCH FACE EDITOR With our editor you can: add your own photos, choose templates, change the time style, add stickers, filters, draw, text with different fonts and add different extensions. COMPATIBLE WITH ALL VERSIONS OF APPLE WATCH Our watch faces are compatible with all versions of the Apple Watch. Not all dials are compatible with the Apple Watch series 1, 2, 3, but we took care of that and designed dials specifically for those versions too. WEEKLY UPDATES Every week we publish new dial categories and notify our users about it! You will always be on trend! ANIMATED WATCH FACES For animated watch faces to work correctly on Apple Watch versions 5, 6, 7, turn off "Always On". WIDGETS Different styles of widgets with different data to display. Steps, calendar, time, calories, photos, and more. This app uses HealthKit to display steps, heart rate, activity in complications watch faces and phone widgets. INFO Privacy Policy: http://project5791294.tilda.ws/privacy-policy Terms of Use: http://project5791294.tilda.ws/terms EULA: http://project5791294.tilda.ws/eula Support: http://project5791294.tilda.ws/support
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
Watch Faces Gallery & Creator and HRV both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of HRV's written reviews are positive against 45% of Watch Faces Gallery & Creator's. HRV also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Watch Faces Gallery & Creator's advantage is ratings volume (22K vs 6) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 Gallery & Creator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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 Gallery & Creator has 22K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Watch Faces Gallery & Creator's written reviews are positive against 100% of HRV's.
Watch Faces Gallery & Creator ships an update every 3 weeks, HRV every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Watch Faces Gallery & Creator | HRV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (22K ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Artem Vasiliuk | Philippe Gerin |
Customer experience
Watch Faces Gallery & Creator
HRV
Bugs and requests
Watch Faces Gallery & Creator
Reported bugs
3 issues- Watch faces not loading or installing properly
- Crashes and freezes when trying to use the app
- Paid features not working as advertised
Requested features
4 requests- More customization options for watch faces
- Ability to remove digital time display on analog watch faces
- Better support for newer Apple Watch models
- Improved sync reliability between app and watch
HRV
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Watch Faces Gallery & Creator
- Watch Faces Gallery Premium$4.99
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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