WatchType vs Wrisper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WatchType
This app provides a full QWERTY keyboard for Apple Watch, enabling faster and more familiar text input. It supports multiple languages, extended characters, custom fonts, and GIFs, making messaging on your wrist more efficient and expressive.
- Full QWERTY keyboard on Apple Watch
- Multi-language keyboard support
- Extended Latin character support
- Customizable fonts and color themes
- Inclusion of GIFs and Emojis
- Support for custom short text
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WatchType allows you to use the missing QWERTY keyboard on Apple Watch, including old models. FEATURES: - Sending a message via Messages - Full QWERTY keyboard on your wrist - Easy typing on Apple Watch, including old models - Language-specific keyboard layouts: Native layouts for each language, including AZERTY (French) and QWERTZ (German) - Multi-language keyboard support: Select multiple languages and switch between them freely while typing - Support 162 extended Latin characters, including the following: à, á, â, ä, å, æ, ç, è, é, ê, ë, ì, í, î, ï, ð, ñ, ò, ..., for English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovenian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Indonesian, Turkish, Vietnamese. - 60+ Awesome Fonts included - 40+ Color Themes on the keyboard - 700+ Cool GIFs included - Numbers, Symbols - Full Unicode Emojis - Support custom short text (abbreviation) - Support watch complications to launch the app on the watch face quickly (It's useful when sending a reply message) (watchOS 9 or higher) - Double-tapping the space bar adds a dot(.) to the text. - Pressing the backspace button for 2+ seconds clears all text. - All configurations are stored on iCloud You can send messages quickly using the familiar QWERTY keyboard on your wrist without speaking in a quiet place or using the scribble keyboard. Privacy Policy: https://watchtype.app/pp/ Terms & Conditions: https://watchtype.app/tnc/ Support: https://support.bitsbaker.com/watchtype
Wrisper
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Wrisper is a small assistant for your Apple Watch. Raise your wrist, tap Ask, say your question, and read the answer a few seconds later. There is no account to create and nothing to pay. The answers come from the Apple Intelligence model that is already on your iPhone, so your questions are not sent to us or to anyone else. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH • One big Ask button. Dictate, scribble or type your question. • Short answers written for a watch screen: one or two sentences. • Have answers read aloud, through the watch speaker or your headphones. • Your last five questions and answers are kept in a history list. • Clear messages when something is in the way: iPhone out of reach, model not ready, or a request that took too long. ON YOUR IPHONE • A status screen that says, in plain words, whether Apple Intelligence is ready, and what to do if it is not. • A field to try a question directly on the phone. • Your watch wakes the app in the background when you ask, so you don't have to keep it open. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Questions are answered on your iPhone, by Apple's on-device model. • No account, no ads, no trackers, no analytics. • Wrisper has no server. We never see your questions or the answers. GOOD TO KNOW • Wrisper answers from what the model already knows. It cannot browse the web, so it does not know today's news, weather or scores. • Like any AI model, it can be wrong. Check anything that matters. • It replies in the language you ask in, for the languages Apple Intelligence supports. REQUIREMENTS • An iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or later), with Apple Intelligence turned on, running iOS 26 or later. • An Apple Watch running watchOS 26 or later, with your iPhone nearby.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wrisper at none against WatchType's 3. WatchType's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. WatchType sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Wrisper asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | WatchType | Wrisper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (168 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 168 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bitsbaker LLC. | Louis Thouvenin |
In-app purchases
WatchType
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime$9.99
Wrisper
No in-app purchases









