Comparison

Wristmate vs WhyNot Widgets

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

Head to head
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.

About

WhyNot Widgets

Organize your most-used apps into a single widget for quick access. Customize the appearance and choose from various pre-designed clock and utility widgets to personalize your Home Screen.

Highlights
  • Launch up to nine apps from a single widget
  • Customizable widget styles and layouts
  • Native app icon display
  • Pre-designed analog and digital clock widgets
  • Hand-drawn, artistic widget designs
  • One-time purchase packs for expanded features
Features
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Nine apps. One widget. One tap. WhyNot puts a tiny app drawer on your Home Screen. Pick up to nine apps, choose a style, and every one of them launches with a single tap. No folders to open. Many apps launch straight from the widget, the rest pass through WhyNot for a moment, and the picker tells you which is which. BUILD IT YOUR WAY • Up to nine apps in the smallest widget size. One app or nine, the layout adapts. • Light and Dark show the real app icons, as they look on a light or a dark Home Screen. Mono and Ghost are two quieter looks. • Fill, or anchor the drawer to a corner for a folder-like cluster. • Hold a tile and drag it to rearrange. CLOCKS WITH CHARACTER • Dial: a quiet analog clock inspired by classic industrial design. Small, medium, and a large desk clock with your week laid out underneath. • Flip: a split-flap clock that rolls over on the minute. • Almanac: the month on a card, in Flip's material. Two keys turn the pages, the name brings today back. Free. • Every widget is built for light mode, dark mode, and the Clear look. Pin any widget to always light or always dark, whatever your phone is set to. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT Every widget is drawn by hand, with real shadows, real materials, and one light source. Nothing is a template. Nothing is a screenshot of something else. PACKS (one-time purchases) • Halo: three screens on one large instrument, your wallpaper showing through. Home has the week, what is next and today's steps, Move and Exercise from Health with the goals. Next has the coming events and reminders, with a countdown. Outside has the weather from sunrise to sunset, hour by hour and four days out. The keys switch screens; a slider sets how much wallpaper shows. • Quartz: a desk clock from the nineties, in seven cases from olive to cream. A window for the date, the day or the temperature, numerals in figures or Roman. Tap to open Clock. • Vinyl: your record on a turntable, drawn after the classic Braun deck. The album artwork is the label, the record turns while Apple Music plays, the arm lifts when it stops, and back, play and next work from the widget. Small is the platter, medium is the whole deck. • Tally: a desk calculator from the seventies, on your Home Screen. Every key works. Small for quick sums, large for the whole instrument. Keeps the last result. • Frontpage: your day as a newspaper front page, in the tall widget size that arrived with iOS 27. The next event is the headline, more events and your reminders run in columns, real headlines from a source you choose or your own feed fill the fold, and tomorrow's weather closes the page. Three newspaper typefaces, newsprint grain, pressed type. • Console: your day at a glance. What is next and how long until it, the week ahead, and the sky, one tap apart on the widget. Every block opens Calendar or Weather directly. • Golden: when the light will be good. Golden hour and blue hour for where you are, on one living sky where the sun rises and sets across your Home Screen. The time is lit by the light of the moment. Tap to open the Camera. • WhyNot Pro: Scenes, your drawer set in a place, with the apps that belong there. Glass, the drawer on a frosted panel with your wallpaper showing through. Unlimited drawers, each widget showing a different one. Gradient backgrounds inspired by iPhone finishes or your own two colors. Buy once, keep forever. No subscriptions. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No analytics. Your drawers live on your phone and nowhere else. Console, Golden, Frontpage and Halo use your approximate location for Apple Weather and, if you allow it, your calendars and reminder lists. Halo reads today's Health figures on your phone, only if you allow it. A feed you add is fetched by your phone, not by us. Nothing about you ever reaches us. WhyNot is made by This is E.

Screenshots

Wristmate3 screens
WhyNot Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WhyNot Widgets at Free against Wristmate's $0.99. WhyNot Widgets also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and ratings volume (45 vs 1). Wristmate's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 8). On review sentiment, 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

WhyNot Widgets is free to download; Wristmate costs $0.99 up front. WhyNot Widgets sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Wristmate asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wristmate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WhyNot Widgets has 45 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Wristmate's written reviews are positive against 70% of WhyNot Widgets's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wristmate ships an update weekly, WhyNot Widgets daily. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Wristmate versus WhyNot Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWristmateWhyNot Widgets
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (45 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews70.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings145 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMinorbits LLCIskren Georgiev

Customer experience

Wristmate

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

WhyNot Widgets

All ratings45 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral6.7%
Negative15.6%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive70.5%
Neutral6.8%
Negative22.7%

In-app purchases

None

Wristmate

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

WhyNot Widgets

One-time8
  • Tally$5.99
  • Vinyl$5.99
  • Quartz$5.99
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  • Golden$5.99
  • Frontpage$9.99
  • Halo$9.99
  • WhyNot Pro$9.99
  • Console$9.99

Questions

Is Wristmate free?
Wristmate costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is WhyNot Widgets free?
WhyNot Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wristmate or WhyNot Widgets?
Wristmate is rated higher. Wristmate averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while WhyNot Widgets averages 4.0 from 45 ratings.
Do Wristmate or WhyNot Widgets have ads?
Neither Wristmate nor WhyNot Widgets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wristmate or WhyNot Widgets?
Wristmate ships an update weekly, and WhyNot Widgets daily. Most recently, Wristmate was updated on October 4, 2026 and WhyNot Widgets on October 15, 2026.

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