Quick Notes for iPhone & Watch vs TextWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quick Notes for iPhone & Watch
Instantly access your iPhone notes on your Apple Watch. Add notes on your phone and find them immediately on your wrist. A simple utility for quick note retrieval.
- Sync notes between iPhone and Apple Watch
- Instant note access on Apple Watch
- Simple note creation on iPhone
- View notes on your wrist
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Want to check your notes on Apple Watch? With this My Watch Notes app, you can check your notes on Apple Watch. After dropping notes on iPhone My Watch Notes app, you can find the notes on your Apple Watch instantly. Try it! How to use this app: 1. Add notes in iPhone app. 2. Open Watch App on Apple Watch. 3. You will see your notes instantly.
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: TextWatch at 3.3 against Quick Notes for iPhone & Watch's 2.3. TextWatch also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (20% vs 0%). Quick Notes for iPhone & Watch's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TextWatch holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TextWatch has 27 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Quick Notes for iPhone & Watch's written reviews are positive against 20% of TextWatch's.
Quick Notes for iPhone & Watch ships an update every 2 weeks, TextWatch every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and August 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quick Notes for iPhone & Watch | TextWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (4 ratings) | 3.3 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Sing Fu Chan | Marcel Hagmann |
Customer experience
Quick Notes for iPhone & Watch
TextWatch
In-app purchases
Quick Notes for iPhone & Watch
No in-app purchases
TextWatch
No in-app purchases
Questions
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