Comparison

Watch Faces vs Artisan

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

Head to head
About

Watch Faces

Quickly create and display notes, reminders, shopping lists, or motivational quotes directly on your Apple Watch. Send text from your phone to your watch face for easy access to important information.

Highlights
  • Create quick notes and reminders
  • Display on Apple Watch face
  • Supports shopping lists and quotes
  • Up to 24 cards per watch face
  • Easy text creation and sending
Read full description

Create Quick Notes, Reminders, and More for Your Apple Watch! With Watch Cards, you can effortlessly create and display notes, reminders, shopping lists, or even motivational quotes and make them always visible on your watch. KEY FEATURES: - Easy Creation: Quickly make memo cards and send them to your Apple Watch. - Create up to 24 cards per watch face with advanced customization options to make your cards unique. HOW IT WORKS: 1. Type Your Text: Enter the text you want to appear on your watch. 2. Send to Watch: Hit the "Send to Watch" button. 3. Set as Active: Set the new watch face as active on your Apple Watch. Stay tuned for more features and customization options in future updates! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Artisan

Transform your devices into a personalized art gallery with living timepieces. Explore a growing collection of hand-painted watch faces, customize motion effects, and enjoy spoken time in multiple languages. Designed for privacy and aesthetic appeal, it offers a unique way to experience time.

Highlights
  • Hand-painted living watch faces
  • Customizable motion effects
  • Spoken time in 14 languages
  • Moonphase and perpetual calendar complications
  • Home Screen widgets and Live Activities
  • Cross-device compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV)
Features
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Time, painted by hand and brought to life. Artisan turns every screen into a private gallery of living time. Each dial begins as a work of art—from cloisonné botanicals and gold-leaf koi to celestial charts—then comes alive with a finely tuned mechanical sweep. This is a clock to live with: quiet on a nightstand, striking on a desk, and beautifully at home across your Apple devices. A COLLECTION THAT GROWS • Explore Odyssey, Zodiac, Celestial, and other curated collections • Discover a new hand-painted dial every day with Artisan Pro • Return to saved releases in the Calendar Gallery • Browse and search every face and collection in Explore TIME IN MOTION • Let the second hand stir the artwork with Liquid, Ripple, Smear, or Lens effects • Move between analog and digital time with a gesture • Choose mechanical sweep, quartz step, haptic tick, and refined hand styles COMPLICATIONS, PAINTED • Moonphase: a hand-painted moon behind a true aperture, tracking the real lunar phase • Perpetual Calendar: rotating month, date, and weekday rings under a cyclops lens • Tap Demo to watch a month of moon and calendar sweep by in seconds CRAFTED FOR YOUR SPACE • Choose full-screen, framed Dial, or immersive Superzoom layouts • Set Night mode, keep-awake behavior, quiet hours, and OLED care • Keep time close with a Home Screen widget and Lock Screen Live Activity • Enjoy your selected dial on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV TIME, SPOKEN BEAUTIFULLY • Tap to hear the time in one of 34 lifelike voices across 14 languages • Set hourly chimes that announce even from the background PRIVACY BY DESIGN Artisan does not collect your data. Begin with three signature dials, the Liquid effect, and gold hands. Artisan Pro unlocks the complete daily collection, all voices, new effects and features, and every limited release you keep. Artisan Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account subscription settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Watch Faces4 screens
Artisan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Artisan at freemium against Watch Faces's subscription. Artisan also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Watch Faces sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Artisan sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Watch Faces against 5.0 for Artisan. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Watch Faces ships an update every 2 months, Artisan weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Watch Faces versus Artisan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWatch FacesArtisan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander GolikovTrilon Apps

Customer experience

Watch Faces

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Artisan

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Watch Faces

Subscriptions2
  • Unlock All (1 Month)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Unlock All (1 Year)$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlock all$34.99
1 purchases

Artisan

Subscriptions1
  • Artisan Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month

Questions

Is Watch Faces free?
Watch Faces is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Artisan free?
Artisan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Watch Faces or Artisan?
Watch Faces and Artisan are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Watch Faces or Artisan have ads?
Neither Watch Faces nor Artisan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Watch Faces or Artisan?
Watch Faces ships an update every 2 months, and Artisan weekly. Most recently, Watch Faces was updated on October 7, 2026 and Artisan on November 1, 2026.

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