Comparison

Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery vs HRV

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

Head to head
About

Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery

Discover and customize your Apple Watch with a vast collection of unique designer watch faces. Update your look daily, create your own designs, and share them with friends. Features include weather, health, and calendar complications.

Highlights
  • Largest selection of watch faces
  • Unique designer watch face designs
  • Static, animated, and complication watch faces
  • Create and share your own watch faces
  • Daily new watch faces
  • Weather, health, and calendar complications
Features
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Get the full potential of your Apple Watch with our Watch Faces Club app. Explore a huge collection of designer watch faces that fit all straps! Stay on trend and update your watch faces every day. Share your watch faces with friends and other users! We are constantly improving our app to always be the best watch faces app for Apple Watch! Welcome to the Watch Faces Club! EXCLUSIVE FEATURES 1. The LARGEST selection of watch faces! 2. UNIQUE watch face designs. Suitable for everyone, all straps and for every day! 2. Static, animated and watch faces with complications! 3. CREATE your own watch faces and SHARE them with others! 4. NEW watch faces every day! COMPLICATIONS WEATHER COMPLICATIONS These complications can show the current weather and the weather forecast for several days ahead. HEALTH COMPLICATIONS These complications can show your activity such as steps, heart rate, distance traveled, calories burned, and more. CALENDAR COMPLICATIONS These complications show the calendar and highlight today's date. DATE COMPLICATIONS These complications can show today's date or the day of the week. BATTERY COMPLICATIONS These complications show the current battery charge of your Apple Watch. IMPORTANT - In order for the animated watch faces to work properly, you must disable the "Always On" feature on your Apple Watch. - Complications updated every 15 minutes due to Apple Watch limitations. - To display your activity (steps, heart rate, calories burned, and more) on the watch faces, you must grant access to the Health app. The watch faces use the data from the HealthKit to display it and only that. - To properly display the weather forecast on the watch faces, you must grant access to your geolocation. We do not share your data with third parties or use it for our own purposes. - Watch faces with complications are available on Apple Watch Series 4, Series 5, Series 6, Series 6, Series 7, Series 8, Series 9, SE, SE 2, ULTRA and ULTRA 2. - Our app uses HealthKit to display activity data (steps, heart rate, distance traveled and calories burned) INFO Terms of Use: https://watch-faces-club.tilda.ws/tou Privacy Policy: https://watch-faces-club.tilda.ws/privacy-policy EULA: https://watch-faces-club.tilda.ws/eula CONNECT Support: help.watchfacesclub@gmail.com

About

HRV

This app analyzes heart rate variability from Apple Health and Apple Watch to provide actionable insights into your daily stress, energy levels, sleep quality, and recovery. It uses scientific visualizations and dual HRV metrics to help you understand your autonomic nervous system activity.

Highlights
  • Dual HRV metrics (SDNN + RMSSD)
  • All-day stress curve
  • Energy (Body Resources) reserve tracking
  • Nightly Sleep Score
  • Personalized Recovery score
  • Interactive trend charts
  • Apple Watch complications
Features
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HRV Tracker — private, on-device insights from your iPhone and Apple Watch. Turn heart-rate variability, heart rate, sleep and activity data from Apple Health into clear views of stress, recovery and energy. Track both SDNN and RMSSD, calculated from available beat-to-beat intervals. iPHONE APP • Home dashboard for HRV, Recovery, Sleep Score, Stress, Energy, Activity, heart rate and weight • Today view comparing your day so far with your usual pattern at the same hour • Detailed HRV, Sleep, Activity, Strain and Weight views • Behaviour logging for habits such as alcohol and caffeine • Daily and weekly coaching • Interactive daily, weekly, monthly and yearly charts PERSONAL INSIGHTS Explore which parts of your routine are associated with changes in HRV, sleep, stress and other measurements. • Influences screened against chance • Stronger findings separated from preliminary and descriptive patterns • Combined effects for pairs of behaviours • “Moving Together” comparisons between health metrics • U-shaped relationships • “Compare Everything” matrix and influence explorer • Personal experiments in Labs Insights describe associations; they do not prove cause and effect. TODAY & COACH Compare today’s readings with similar hours from your history. Coaching can consider sleep, recovery, stress, energy, activity and events such as workouts, late coffee or mindfulness. A separate note summarizes the previous seven days. AI-written coaching requires an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone running iOS 26 or later, with Apple Intelligence enabled and available for your device language. Other devices retain their scores, insights and standard app-written coaching summaries. Coaching is generated locally; health information is not sent to an external AI service. KEY SCORES Stress — A continuous 0–100 physiological-load score. When both signals are available, it combines 40% HRV with 60% heart rate. It continues with heart rate alone when no nearby RMSSD exists. The curve shades sleep, excludes workouts and identifies missing watch periods. Stress reflects physiological activation, not emotional stress. Energy — An all-day 0–100 estimate of how much you have “in the tank.” It recharges during sleep, taking Sleep Score and sleep stages into account, and responds to calm, stress and physical effort. Compare it with your usual reserve at the same time. Sleep Score — A nightly 0–100 score blending duration (35%), continuity (25%) and restfulness (40%). Restfulness considers overnight HRV, heart rate and physiological load. Scores personalize as your history grows. Recovery — Compares RMSSD with your history at a similar time of day. iPhone uses up to 30 previous days without including a reading in its own reference. Apple Watch uses a shorter local history, so its quick score may differ. Activity — Combines movement with sustained effort. Workout load uses heart rate when enough readings are available; otherwise it is estimated from workout type and duration, so yoga is not treated like intense cardio. The Activity page shows what contributed to the score. APPLE WATCH • Native Recovery and Stress views • SDNN and RMSSD at a glance • Stress and HRV charts • Complications and widgets • RMSSD from available heartbeat series • Support for dense chest-strap readings • Cached baseline for faster opening DATA & PRIVACY HRV Tracker analyzes Apple Health data on your devices. Your health history is not uploaded to an HRV Tracker server. AFib History on a compatible Apple Watch greatly increases beat-to-beat sampling and is strongly recommended for complete RMSSD, Stress, Energy and Recovery views. With infrequent measurements, some curves and insights may remain incomplete. HRV Tracker is intended for personal information and wellness. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose or treat any condition.

Screenshots

Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery4 screens
HRV4 screens

Verdict

The call

Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery and HRV both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of HRV's written reviews are positive against 39% of Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery's. HRV also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery's advantage is ratings volume (17K vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, update cadence 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 & Widgets Gallery sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and HRV sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. 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 — 4.7 for Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery against 4.8 for HRV. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery has 17K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 39% of Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery's written reviews are positive against 100% of HRV's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery ships an update every 3 weeks, HRV every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery versus HRV: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWatch Faces & Widgets GalleryHRV
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (17K ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWatch Faces Gallery ClubPhilippe Gerin

Customer experience

Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery

All ratings16,829 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews787 reviews
Positive39.1%
Neutral6.1%
Negative54.8%

HRV

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes or freezes on launch
  • Incompatibility issues with newer Apple Watch models
  • Complications not functioning as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • More professional and unique watch face designs
  • Better compatibility across all Apple Watch models
  • Ability to easily check compatibility before purchase
  • Improved stability and reliability after updates
  • More customization options for watch faces

HRV

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Watch Faces (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Premium Watch Faces (Annual)$9.991 Year
One-time4
  • Premium Watch Faces (Lifetime)$4.99
  • Premium Watch Faces (Lifetime)$9.99
  • Premium Watch Faces (Lifetime)$14.99
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  • Premium Watch Faces (Lifetime)$29.99
5 purchases

HRV

One-time5
  • Bronze Supporter$1.99
  • Bronze Supporter Tier$1.99
  • Silver Supporter2 variants$4.99
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  • Gold Supporter2 variants$11.99
  • Platinum Supporter2 variants$44.99

Questions

Is Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery free?
Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HRV free?
HRV is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery or HRV?
HRV is rated higher. Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery averages 4.7 out of 5 from 17K ratings, while HRV averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery or HRV have ads?
Neither Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery nor HRV shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery or HRV?
Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery ships an update every 3 weeks, and HRV every 6 weeks. Most recently, Watch Faces & Widgets Gallery was updated on September 25, 2026 and HRV on September 21, 2026.

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