Watch Faces vs Pixelator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Watch Faces
Discover and apply a wide variety of unique watch faces and widgets for your Apple Watch. New designs are added weekly, catering to diverse styles and preferences. Some faces are free, while others require a premium subscription.
- Extensive collection of watch faces and widgets
- Weekly design updates
- Variety of styles: animations, dynamic, live, dashboards
- User-friendly interface with previews
- Compatible with all Apple Watch series
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Apple Watch Faces - Gallery offers you the coolest selection of Apple Watch Faces. Our Watch Face gallery is handpicked and designed by our designers with weekly updates. With Watch Faces - Gallery you will get access to: - A large collection of faces and widgets. All updated weekly. - Beautiful designs that will match your personality or personal choices: from animations, dynamic faces, live faces, dashboards, widgets, designer faces... - Easy to use with previews. - Compatible with any Apple Watch series Some of the faces are totally free, so that you can use them with your Apple Watch and the remaining faces will require a premium subscription in order to be used. For terms of use please refer to https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ for terms of use (EULA).
Pixelator
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Pixelator is a fun pixel art studio for iPhone, built for sharp grids, clean tools, and art you can share. DRAW! • Brush, eraser, pen, fill, and scatter • Shapes: line, rectangle, circle, triangle, star, and arrow • Select and move pixels with precision • Adjustable brush size and shape LAYERED WORKFLOW! • Stack, hide, lock, and reorder layers • Opacity control and merge down • Undo through your edit history CANVAS TOOLS! • Symmetry: vertical, horizontal, or 4-way • Grid, wrap mode, and paint-inside options • Canvas sizes from tiny sprites to larger grids (8×8 to 128×128 and custom) PALETTES! • Curated palettes: Pico-8, Game Boy, NES, Sweetie 16, DB16, DB32, and more • Create and manage your own palettes • Full-spectrum color picker with recent colors EXPORT & SHARE • PNG at any scale for crisp upscales • SVG for clean vector-ready pixel art • Import images and pixelate them onto your canvas APPLE INTELLIGENCE* • Invent drawing names from what’s on the canvas • Generate fresh color palettes — all on device Also draw on Apple Watch with a lightweight companion editor. Whether you’re making game sprites, icons, stickers, or weekend doodles, open Pixelator, paint a few pixels, and make something that looks like it came from a cartridge. *Apple Intelligence features require a compatible device and availability.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pixelator at none against Watch Faces's 2. Pixelator also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). Watch Faces'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. Watch Faces sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Pixelator asks for nothing beyond the download.
Watch Faces ships an update every 10 days, Pixelator daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Watch Faces | Pixelator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (103 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 103 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Warlock Arts | PETER JOHN WRIGHT |
In-app purchases
Watch Faces
- WatchFace Premium Annual$9.991 Year
- WatchFace Premium Annual3 Days trial$9.991 Year
Pixelator
No in-app purchases







