Favorite Contacts! vs Text Clock Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Favorite Contacts!
Easily connect with your most important contacts through a streamlined interface. Access communication options like calls, messages, and social media directly from a convenient widget.
- Favorite contacts management
- Today View/Notification Center widget
- Direct communication access
- Animated contact photos (GIFs)
- Support for numerous communication apps
- Personalization options
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We all have many contacts in our phones, but who do you actually contact regularly? Surely only family and friends. For those people that you contact often, Favorite Contacts provides you tons of ways to communicate with them. From WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat or FaceTime to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Simply open the app, or better yet, do it right from the Today View / Notification Center. KEY FEATURES: - Beautiful and handy app that keeps you closer to your favorite and most frequently used contacts. - Widget for the Today View / Notification Center to quickly chat, start calls or send messages right from within any app or the home and lock screens. - Quickly view any contact's phone, email or address directly on the widget. - Contacts with animated photos (GIFs). You'll be able to recognize your contacts more easily and with a lot of fun! - Very easy to configure and use, simply add your contacts once, then just tap on them to quickly access all the available actions. - Supports Phone, FaceTime, FaceTime Audio, Mail, Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Pinterest, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Kik, Vine, Periscope, Tumblr and Flickr. - Many different styles for you to personalize it and make it look just the way you like. Download and start using Favorite Contacts today! FEEDBACK & SUPPORT: What new feature or improvement would you like to see? Please send us your feedback from right inside the app or to support@thinkcoderelease.com Thank you!
Text Clock Widget
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This app includes widgets that displays the current time as text, a faster way to perceive the time than reading numbers. Add the widgets to the different places where widgets can be displayed on iPhone, iPad, AppleWatch and MacOS. Three different time text styles can be used: • Hour and minutes • To and past the hour • To and past the half hour Choose to show the current date and whether the time should be rounded to the nearest 5 minutes. You can choose between 6 different background colors.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Favorite Contacts! at every 2 months against Text Clock Widget's every 10 months. Favorite Contacts! also leads on iOS requirement (9.1 vs 17.4). Text Clock Widget's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and device support (4 vs 2). On 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
Favorite Contacts! costs $2.99 and Text Clock Widget $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Favorite Contacts! ships an update every 2 months, Text Clock Widget every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and August 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Favorite Contacts! | Text Clock Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (252 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 252 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Think Code Release Ltd | Magne Roald |
Bugs and requests
Favorite Contacts!
Reported bugs
20 issues- Junk does not import contact info
- No cross device syncing or cloud service/s
- It doesn’t Show the Information of My Contacts
- Cannot add a widget
- Keep receiving error when trying to contact the “dedicated“ support service
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- App closes down every time I hit the (I) button to edit the contact info
- Will not let me have instant access to my favorite contacts
- Text function will not allow you to take a photo or attach pics, animated gifs etc..
- Camera icon once pressed does nothing
- Attach icon does nothing
- Submitted suggestions for features and have heard nothing back
- When you try to submit feedback, it says technical support is not available
- Sigue sin funcionar WhatsApp
- No funciona con WhatsApp no enlaza el contacto
- No puedo ingresar la información de Messenger de Facebook a un contacto
- The app gets stuck when I click on a contact and can't go back to home or back
- Still not compatible with WhatsApp
- When you click on the facebook or whatsapp of the contact it takes you to the main page of face or whats
- Background would stay the color I set it instead of changing itself to black
- Doesn't recognise my FB messenger entry in the 'instant message' section
Requested features
13 requests- Cross-device syncing or cloud service
- Dark mode compatibility
- Customization of calling screen
- Widget for iOS 14
- Ability to resize caller pictures
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- Remove social media icons for unused contacts
- Notifications instead of messenger/phone app
- View all contacts for changes/directory
- Add Snapchat usernames to contacts
- Add services like Snapchat, LinkedIn, Tumblr
- FaceTime audio call option
- Ability to text in other apps like Text Me
- Allow background to stay set color
Text Clock Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Favorite Contacts!
No in-app purchases
Text Clock Widget
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Favorite Contacts! free?
Is Text Clock Widget free?
Do Favorite Contacts! or Text Clock Widget have ads?
Which is updated more often, Favorite Contacts! or Text Clock Widget?
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