Comparison

Unplugged vs Wristmate

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

Head to head
About

Unplugged

View your iPhone's battery status directly on your Apple Watch. Get customizable alerts for low battery or charging completion. Premium features include detailed history, forecasts, and thermal monitoring.

Highlights
  • Apple Watch complications
  • Customizable battery notifications
  • Charging animations
  • Siri integration
  • Battery history and forecast
  • Live Activities
  • Thermal state monitoring
Features
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Your iPhone battery, always at a glance from your Apple Watch. Stop guessing your phone's battery level or fishing it out of your pocket. Unplugged puts clear, reliable battery info right on your wrist, so you can see if you'll make it through a meeting, a workout, or your commute without ever touching your iPhone. Key Benefits Watch Complications (12+ Styles) Turn any watch face into a battery dashboard. Start with 4 free complications and unlock 12+ with Premium. Choose tiny indicators for formal settings, larger readouts for travel, or detailed views showing battery, charging state, and more. Smart Battery Notifications Never get surprised by a dying phone. Set custom thresholds and get alerts when your charge runs low or tops up. Free users receive checks every 2 hours, while Premium tightens that to roughly every 20 minutes. Choose active hours so low-battery pings never wake you at night. Charging Animations (Premium) Five full-screen charging styles with customizable colors, including Horizon: your battery level is a sun rising over water, and specks of light drift into it while you charge. Every style adapts to larger and foldable displays instead of simply stretching. Siri, Control Center & Automations Ask Siri for your battery level, forecast, or Watch battery. Add or remove alerts by voice. Pause all alerts, start a charging session, or open the animation straight from Control Center. On iOS 27, add one shortcut and plugging in starts the Live Activity and charging animation on their own. Battery History (Premium) See how your battery really behaves. View charts for the last 12 hours up to 7 days and scrub through them to read any moment. Spot patterns like heavy drain during your commute or slow overnight trickle. Battery Forecast (Premium) Know how long your battery will last based on your actual habits, not guesswork. On-device machine learning studies your usage and estimates when you'll hit low battery. If today's drain is higher than normal, you'll see it early. Live Activities (Premium) Watch your battery change in real time on your Lock Screen and Apple Watch Smart Stack. Thermal State Monitoring (Premium) See when your iPhone is running hot, what features may be impacted, and get practical suggestions, like pausing intensive tasks or moving out of direct sun. Better thermal management means better battery health. Customizable Dashboard (Premium) Build your own battery control center. See your iPhone and Apple Watch batteries side by side, and arrange cards for thermal state, charging status, and more. A Sync Status card shows exactly when your Watch last got an update. Built for Everyone Accessibility is built in, not bolted on. Fully optimized for VoiceOver and Dynamic Type on iPhone and Apple Watch, so battery info works for everyone. Free vs Premium Free: - 4 watch complications - Basic notifications (every 2 hours) - iPhone battery monitoring - Siri battery checks, voice alerts and the Battery Alerts control Premium: - All 12+ watch complications - Smart notifications (every 20 minutes) - Live Activities and 5 Charging Animations - Charging automations - Battery History & Forecast - Thermal State monitoring - Customizable Dashboard More Than a Widget Unplugged doubles as a battery tracker, charge reminder, and percentage indicator: clear stats at a glance, a complication for every watch face, and alerts that arrive before you hit low. Your Feedback Shapes Unplugged Built by a single indie developer. Use the in-app Request a Feature form to share what you want next. Every suggestion is read. Download Unplugged and turn your Apple Watch into the battery companion Apple forgot to build. Privacy Policy: https://www.unpluggedapp.site/legal/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: christiansko@unpluggedapp.site

About

Wristmate

Personalize your Apple Watch face with custom photo complications and one-tap shortcuts for frequently used actions. Turn photos into interactive buttons to launch workouts, call contacts, or create notes instantly.

Highlights
  • Custom photo complications
  • One-tap Quick Actions
  • Automatic photo rotation
  • Customizable tint colors
  • iCloud syncing
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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Make your Apple Watch yours - with custom photo complications and a one-tap launcher for the things you do most. Wristmate turns your watch face into something personal and useful. Build photo complications from your own pictures, then wire them to instant actions. Tap your dog's photo to start a walk. Tap your kid's photo to call the sitter. It's your watch, your way. PHOTO COMPLICATION SETS • Build complications from your own photos - circular, rectangular, and corner slots. • Crop, zoom, and rotate each photo to fit the slot perfectly. • Rotate through a set automatically - every 15 minutes, every 30, hourly, daily, or when you open the app. • Add a custom color border to make a complication pop. A LAUNCHER FOR EVERYTHING YOU REACH FOR Fill your watch with one-tap Quick Actions - pick from ten and arrange them your way: • Start Workout - jump straight into the Apple Watch Workout app for your chosen activity. • Call Contact - call someone in a single tap. • Message Contact - fire off a pre-filled message. • Search Maps - launch a saved Maps search. • Quick Note - dictate a note from your wrist. • Quick Reminder - dictate a reminder straight to your iPhone's Reminders. • Tally Counter - count anything: laps, reps, coffees, scores. • Coin Flip - heads or tails, settled. • Dice Roll - roll the dice (your choice of sides). • Ask The Orb - ask, shake, get your answer. TAP-THROUGH MAGIC Wire any photo complication to a Quick Action. Tap the photo on your watch face and the action runs instantly - no menus, no digging. MADE TO BE YOURS • Custom tint colors for every shortcut, shared with the set border picker. • Pick a color once, use it anywhere. • Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud. PRIVACY Workout actions use Apple HealthKit only to launch the Workout app - Wristmate never reads or stores your health data. Quick Note and Quick Reminder save to your own Notes and Reminders. Your photos stay yours. Download Wristmate and make your wrist work for you.

Screenshots

Unplugged4 screens
Wristmate3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Unplugged at Free against Wristmate's $0.99. Unplugged also leads on ratings volume (116 vs 6). Wristmate's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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

Unplugged is free to download; Wristmate costs $0.99 up front. Unplugged sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Wristmate asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wristmate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Unplugged has 116 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Unplugged's written reviews are positive against 67% of Wristmate's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Unplugged ships an update every 3 weeks, Wristmate weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Unplugged versus Wristmate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnpluggedWristmate
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.7 (116 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.5% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings116 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size288 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian SkorobogatowMinorbits LLC

Customer experience

Unplugged

All ratings116 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral1.7%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive48.5%
Neutral3.0%
Negative48.5%

Wristmate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Unplugged

Subscriptions5
  • Premium Offer Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Offer Monthly$2.991 Month
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  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
  • Premium Offer Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • Coffee Boost$0.99
  • Foodie Sponsor$4.99
  • Unicorn Patron$12.99
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  • Premium Lifetime$34.99
  • Premium Offer Lifetime$49.99
None

Wristmate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Unplugged free?
Unplugged is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wristmate free?
Wristmate costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Unplugged or Wristmate?
Wristmate is rated higher. Unplugged averages 4.7 out of 5 from 116 ratings, while Wristmate averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Unplugged or Wristmate have ads?
Neither Unplugged nor Wristmate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Unplugged or Wristmate?
Unplugged ships an update every 3 weeks, and Wristmate weekly. Most recently, Unplugged was updated on November 8, 2026 and Wristmate on November 5, 2026.

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