Text 2 Watch vs TextWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text 2 Watch
Easily transfer any text from your iPhone to your Apple Watch. Save and access your notes or shopping lists on your wrist for quick reference.
- Transfer text to Apple Watch
- Save texts for later access
- Load saved texts on watch
- Shopping list functionality
- Note-taking on wrist
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Text 2 Watch - Shoppings list, notes and more in your Apple Watch! Transfer any text to your Apple Watch. You can also save the texts and load them later!
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 review sentiment: Text 2 Watch at 100% against TextWatch's 20%. Text 2 Watch also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.4). TextWatch's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (29 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Text 2 Watch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TextWatch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Text 2 Watch holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TextWatch has 29 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Text 2 Watch's written reviews are positive against 20% of TextWatch's.
Text 2 Watch ships an update every 5 months, TextWatch every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text 2 Watch | TextWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 3.4 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francisco Fortes Lucena | Marcel Hagmann |
Customer experience
Text 2 Watch
TextWatch
In-app purchases
Text 2 Watch
- "Load" feature + No Ads$1.99
TextWatch
No in-app purchases
