LinkControl vs TextWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LinkControl
This utility app acts as an interface for controlling physical devices like lights and motors. It downloads button definitions from a server and sends button press identifiers back to the server, which then determines the action.
- Control lights, dimmers, and motors
- Button definition downloads
- Button press identification
- Server-based device control
- Customizable button layouts
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LinkControl is an automation application that can be used to control lights, dimmers, motors and other physical devices. This application is essentially a button processing application that needs to be paired with a server component that ultimately controls the physical devices. This application downloads button definitions from the server application and when a button is pressed a button identifier is returned to the server indicating which button was pressed. With that information the server decides the appropriate next step. LinkControl has no knowledge of the overall process as it just handles button definitions and button presses.
TextWatch
Personalize your Apple Watch face with custom text reminders and messages. Easily create and sync single-line or multi-line items from your iPhone to your watch, then select which text to display.
- Custom text reminders
- Single-line and multi-line support
- iPhone and Apple Watch sync
- Watch face complication integration
- Easy item selection
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Create your positive reminders for your apple watch. This can be anything - you decide and create your texts that will show up on your apple watch. How to do it? 1. Add TextWatch as a complication to your watch face 2. Open the TextWatch app on your Apple Watch 3. Open TextWatch on your iPhone and create your single-line or multi-line items. The items get sync automatically to your watch. 4. Tap on the item that you want to be displayed on your watch face That's already it. Have fun creating your texts for your apple watch :) Do you want to give feedback? You miss something, and you have a good idea for the next update? Or you just want to show us your created text on your watch face? Send us an email to hagmannmarcel.developer@yahoo.com :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LinkControl at 3.5 against TextWatch's 3.3. TextWatch's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 2) and update cadence (every 8 months vs every 18 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LinkControl holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TextWatch has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LinkControl ships an update every 18 months, TextWatch every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and August 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LinkControl | TextWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | 3.3 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | River Rock Logic | Marcel Hagmann |
Customer experience
LinkControl
TextWatch
In-app purchases
LinkControl
No in-app purchases
TextWatch
No in-app purchases
