Comparison

Watch Faces Gallery vs Sci

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Watch Faces Gallery4 screens
Sci4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Watch Faces Gallery ships an update fortnightly, Sci every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Watch Faces Gallery versus Sci: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWatch Faces GallerySci
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.6 (3.7K ratings) — better3.3 (56 ratings)
Positive reviews14.7% of reviews53.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.7K — better56
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank—#16 — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMETATEC APPS LTDNSTE, LLC

Customer experience

Watch Faces Gallery

All ratings3,697 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews190 reviews
Positive14.7%
Neutral6.3%
Negative78.9%

Sci

All ratings55 ratings
Positive56.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive53.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative41.5%

User reviews

Watch Faces Gallery

From 3.7K App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

6 purchases

Watch Faces Gallery

Subscriptions4
  • 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
One-time2
  • Premium Lifetime Offer$19.99
  • الإصدار المتميز$39.99
None

Sci

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Watch Faces Gallery free?
Watch Faces Gallery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sci free?
Sci costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Watch Faces Gallery or Sci?
Watch Faces Gallery is rated higher. Watch Faces Gallery averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.7K ratings, while Sci averages 3.3 from 56 ratings.
Do Watch Faces Gallery or Sci have ads?
Neither Watch Faces Gallery nor Sci shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Watch Faces Gallery or Sci?
Watch Faces Gallery ships an update fortnightly, and Sci every 6 months. Most recently, Watch Faces Gallery was updated on November 12, 2026 and Sci on November 12, 2026.

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