Project Iris vs BBQEwatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Project Iris
This utility app offers a streamlined browsing experience with advanced engine capabilities. It allows for private browsing, history management, and customizable search engines, all optimized for accessibility and supporting multiple languages.
- State-of-the-art browsing engine
- Keyword and URL distinction
- Bookmark management
- Private browsing mode
- History recording
- Customizable search engine
- History and bookmark locking
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Thank you for choosing Iris. If you cannot find Iris, please search it on your Apple Watch. Iris can... - Use state-of-the-art browsing engine - Distinguish keywords & URL - Manage bookmarks - Browse with Private Mode - Record history - Sync data with iCloud - Customize search engine - Use a secondary search engine - Customize home and theme color - Lock history and bookmarks - Check images and videos - Handle multiple tabs - Customize long press search button action - Use archives and extensions - Download medias - Send feedback with Carina attaching datas - Optimizes for accessibility - Type with Cepheus or FlickType
BBQEwatch
This app lets you customize your Apple Watch display with various content like workouts, weather, and images. You can also integrate real-time data from online APIs to show dynamic information. Explore a community of user-created designs for inspiration.
- Customizable watch face layouts
- Integrate built-in features (workouts, weather, calendar)
- Display data from online APIs
- Show real-time web information
- Access user-shared designs
- Support for Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPod
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BBQEwatch is a powerful customizable display app that allows you to show a wide variety of content on your Apple Watch. Users can flexibly combine the built-in features of BBQEwatch—such as workouts, weather, time, calendar, images, and animations—into their own unique layouts. In addition, you can add and display data from any online API, enabling your watch to retrieve real-time information from the web. In theory, you can display almost any kind of dynamic or static data on your Apple Watch. The BBQEwatch community also features many user-shared creations, where people showcase beautifully designed and highly creative combinations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Project Iris at 100% against BBQEwatch's 49%. Project Iris also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). BBQEwatch's advantage is ratings volume (60 vs 14) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Project Iris sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BBQEwatch sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Project Iris holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 60 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Project Iris's written reviews are positive against 49% of BBQEwatch's.
Project Iris ships an update every 4 days, BBQEwatch every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Project Iris | BBQEwatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better | 4.5 (60 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 49.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 60 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 力 雷 | 巴巴教育 |
Customer experience
Project Iris
BBQEwatch
In-app purchases
Project Iris
- Iris Vision$3.99
BBQEwatch
- 5积分$2.99
- 30积分$7.99
- 70积分$14.99
