Now Playing Plus vs WatchAudio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Now Playing Plus
Enhance your Apple Watch face with convenient audio controls. This app adds corner and circular complications, allowing quick access to playback functions without navigating through menus.
- Corner complications
- Circular complications
- Audio controls
- Quick access
- Customizable watch face
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Now Playing Plus provides corner and circular complications for your Apple Watch face. This gives you easy access to audio controls, without needed to hunt around in the App List or Dock.
WatchAudio
This app allows you to store and play audio files directly on your Apple Watch. Enjoy offline playback of music, podcasts, and audiobooks with features like playlist creation, chapter support, and playback speed control. Import files from various cloud services or directly from your device.
- Offline audio playback on Apple Watch
- Add audio files to Watch app
- Playlist creation
- Podcast & Audiobook menus with chapters
- Import from cloud storage
- Playback speed control
- Resume playback position
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WatchAudio is a dedicated Apple Watch app for your audio files. ● Add audio files onto the Apple Watch app ● Play offline at any time ● Use the Apple Watch speaker or headphones ● Play by albums & artists ● Create playlists ● Select favorites ● Podcast & Audiobook menus with chapter support ● Play all & shuffle ● Change playback speed ● Resume playback position for long audio ● Sort audio by title, recently played, when added, or artist ● Now Playing app support ● Audio files supported: MP3, M4A, FLAC, MP4, M4B, WAV, AAC, AIF, AIFF, AU, CAF ● Import from Files, iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, & more ● Zip file (batch) importing ● Add audio from a url (YouTube not supported) Privacy Policy: https://watchaudio.app/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Now Playing Plus at Free against WatchAudio's $1.99. Now Playing Plus also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). WatchAudio's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 9 months). On review sentiment, 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
Now Playing Plus is free to download; WatchAudio costs $1.99 up front. WatchAudio sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Now Playing Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.
WatchAudio holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 51 and 211 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 71% and 71% positive.
Now Playing Plus ships an update every 9 months, WatchAudio every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Now Playing Plus | WatchAudio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (51 ratings) | 4.6 (211 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 70.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 51 | 211 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Iconfactory | Atlum Limited |
Customer experience
Now Playing Plus
WatchAudio
In-app purchases
Now Playing Plus
No in-app purchases
WatchAudio
- 14-day TrialFree
- Premium (Videwatch discount)$1.99
- Premium$3.99
