Watch Faces Gallery vs Sci
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Watch Faces Gallery
Discover and customize over 1,000 unique watch faces for your Apple Watch, from luxury designs to personal photo portraits. New faces are added weekly, with easy one-tap syncing and a face designer tool. Unlock premium features with a subscription.
- 1,000+ luxury and diver-style watch faces
- Custom photo and portrait watch faces
- Weekly new face releases
- One-tap sync to Apple Watch
- Face designer with text, backgrounds, and stickers
- Compatible with all Apple Watch Series
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Luxury, diver, and custom Apple Watch faces — 1,000+ designs, updated every week. Watch Faces Gallery® gives you the finest collection of handpicked watch faces for every Apple Watch Series. Whether you want an elegant Swiss-inspired dial, a bold diver chronometer face, a photo portrait face, or a minimalist everyday design — it's all here, free to preview. What you get: — Luxury & diver-style faces inspired by classic watchmaking — Custom photo & portrait watch faces made from your own photos — Weekly face drops — fresh designs every 7 days — One-tap sync directly to your Apple Watch — Face designer: add text, backgrounds & stickers — Compatible with all Apple Watch Series (1 through Ultra 2) PRO unlocks everything: unlimited access to all faces, priority new releases, and zero ads. - Terms: https://metatec.io/term-of-use/ - Privacy: https://metatec.io/privacy-policy/
Sci
Personalize your device with a vast collection of sci-fi and space-themed wallpapers for your home and lock screens. Enhance your experience with customizable Home Screen Image Widgets, allowing you to display your favorite images.
- 250+ widget backgrounds
- Variety of home/lock screen wallpapers
- Customizable Home Screen Image Widget
- Add your own images to widgets
- Parody sci-fi display styles
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Customize your iPhone or iPad with Sci-Fi and Space wallpapers, Home Screen Image Widgets, and Clock/Date Widgets. INCLUDES: - 260+ square and rectangle Image Widget Backgrounds in many styles (or add your own images) - 130+ backgrounds or use a color gradient for the Clock/Date Widget - Icon packs in 13 styles with 2,000+ icons to set with the Shortcuts app - A large variety of wallpaper for Home / Lock screens to perfectly fit every size iPhone / iPad (Always adding more wallpaper, so check periodically) WIDGET DIRECTIONS Add a widget to your home screen in the usual way (long press the home screen and when in jiggly mode press the '+' on top. Scroll down to Sci-Fi Themes and select the size you want [do this for each size you want]). Long press the widget to change the theme from the images you set in the app. Some of the Sci-Fi styles are modeled after popular sci-fi shows and movies. The look like they should work, even with indecipherable meaning or function. And just like the props, iOS gives them the same functionality - NONE. It's parody how the sci-fi designers thought future displays would look while being impossible to use. *These are generic images. Please do not ask me in reviews or by mail to include any trademarked names, logos, images or other properties. I respect copyrights and will not include them. If used in tandem with my calculator widget, icon maker, widget maker, keyboard, and ringtones apps, you can really create a fuller theme.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Watch Faces Gallery at Free against Sci's $3.99. Watch Faces Gallery also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months). Sci's advantage is review sentiment (54% vs 15%) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). On ads, 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
Watch Faces Gallery is free to download; Sci costs $3.99 up front. Watch Faces Gallery sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Sci asks for nothing beyond the download.
Watch Faces Gallery holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Watch Faces Gallery has 3.7K ratings behind it against 56, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of Watch Faces Gallery's written reviews are positive against 54% of Sci's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Watch Faces Gallery ships an update fortnightly, Sci every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.
| Parameter | Watch Faces Gallery | Sci |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.7K ratings) — better | 3.3 (56 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 14.7% of reviews | 53.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.7K — better | 56 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #16 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | METATEC APPS LTD | NSTE, LLC |
Customer experience
Watch Faces Gallery
Sci
User reviews
Watch Faces Gallery
From 3.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Awesome watch faces
- 💎 Luxury brand watch faces
- 🎨 Customizable watch faces
- 👍 Easy to use app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Faces disappear frequently
- 🤯 Subscription required for full access
- 💸 Expensive subscription
- 🤔 Misleading advertising
- 🔍 Limited watch face options
Sci
From 56 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ High-quality sci-fi wallpapers
- 🎨 Great customization options
- 👍 Intuitive and smooth app experience
- 🚀 Seamless widget integration
- 💯 Immersive and detailed designs
Room to improve
- 💸 Waste of money/overpriced
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🚫 Wallpapers don't fit correctly
- ⚠️ Limited widget functionality
- ❌ App doesn't work on some devices
Bugs and requests
Watch Faces Gallery
Reported bugs
3 issues- Watch faces not loading properly
- Syncing issues with Apple Watch
- Subscription charges not stopping after cancellation
Requested features
4 requests- More free watch face options
- Ability to purchase individual watch faces
- Improved syncing and reliability
- Seasonal/themed watch face collections
Sci
Reported bugs
10 issues- Unknown error when downloading wallpapers
- Widgets not showing as an option to add
- Wallpapers slightly off on iPhone 16 Pro Max
- Widgets don't refresh quickly
- Cannot add photo widget / Photo widget not working well
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- App doesn't work on iPad / Cannot use arrow button to download
- Error message when trying to download photos
- Lock screen widgets go over desired parts of wallpaper
- Widget doesn't show as an option in adding widgets
- When pinned on iPhone, says 'sc fi themes' under each widget
Requested features
10 requests- Update for newer iPhone models (iPhone 17)
- More animated wallpapers/live wallpaper options
- More variety in sci-fi themes (e.g., Star Wars)
- Ability to have multiple different widgets
- Widgets that don't display app name
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- More customization for widgets (e.g., colors, animation)
- Fix alignment issues for specific phone models (iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro Max)
- More wallpaper options per size
- Option to have same wallpaper in both horizontal and vertical
- More comprehensive theme packages (including icons)
In-app purchases
Watch Faces Gallery
- Weekly Subscription$6.997 Days
- Weekly Subscription - 3 Days Trial3 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Watch Faces Monthly$8.991 Month
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- Watch Faces Annually$14.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime Offer$19.99
- الإصدار المتميز$39.99
Sci
No in-app purchases
Questions
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