WristForge vs Facemaker: Multi-Platform Watch Face Makers Compared

Facemaker is one of the few watch face tools that, like WristForge, builds for more than one brand of watch. If you're choosing between the two, here's an honest comparison of what each one does best.

Last checked November 2026. Both tools update often, so check the latest versions too.

The short version

• Pick Facemaker if you mainly make faces for Huawei or Xiaomi watches, or you want a one-time license instead of a yearly plan.
• Pick WristForge if Wear OS is your main platform, you want a Timeline to animate across the day, a free place to publish without a Google Play account, Watch Face Studio import, or you also want to make watch apps.

Side by side

	Facemaker	WristForge
Price	One-time license: Premium about €20 (personal use), Professional about €50 (commercial use, adds Garmin and Wear OS)	Free editor. Publishing to Google Play or the Zepp Store is $29.99 a year
Runs on	Windows, Mac, Linux	Windows, Mac, Linux
Wear OS	Yes (Professional)	Yes, Watch Face Format
Amazfit (Zepp OS)	Yes	Yes
Huawei / Honor	Yes	Planned
Garmin	Yes (Professional)	Coming next
Xiaomi	In beta	Through Xiaomi's Wear OS watches
One project for several watches	One watch model per project, with conversion between brands	One project, a layout per watch: change one without touching the others
Day-long animation	Not listed on its site	A keyframe Timeline with crossfades and easing
Publish without a store account	No	Yes, to Face Hub, free
Opens Watch Face Studio projects	No	Yes
Watch apps	No	Yes, Wear OS and Apple Watch

Where Facemaker shines

More brands today. Facemaker covers Huawei and Honor watches and has Xiaomi in beta. If those are your main audience, it's ahead.

A lifetime license. You pay once. For some designers that's the deciding factor.

A real solo developer. It's made by one person who answers users directly and posts tutorials on YouTube. We respect that, since we're a small studio too.

Where WristForge is different

One design, every watch, kept in sync

In WristForge one project holds the face for every watch. Click a target and the Scene switches to that watch's screen. Anything you move there only changes that watch, and everything else stays shared, so a fix to your design is made once. Build for each watch in one click.

A Timeline for the whole day

One row per layer across 24 hours. Show and hide layers at certain hours, crossfade between them, and keyframe opacity, position, scale, rotation and tint with easing. Sunrise, daytime and night versions of a face become a few drags. See Time-of-Day Windows.

Wear OS first

If most of your buyers wear Galaxy Watches, Pixel Watches and other Wear OS watches, WristForge is built around them. It builds Google's Watch Face Format with always-on mode, complications, color styles the wearer picks, wrist-tilt parallax, masks, text outlines and photo slots, and gives you a Google Play ready .aab under your own name.

Face Hub: publish free, no store account

New personal Google Play accounts need a 20-tester, 14-day closed test before the first release. With WristForge you can publish to Face Hub for free right away, and add Google Play later.

Bring your Watch Face Studio work

WristForge opens .wfs projects directly, layer by layer. If your back catalog is in Samsung's tool, you don't start over. How the import works.

Apps, not just faces

The same editor builds watch apps for Wear OS and Apple Watch.

So which one?

If Huawei and Xiaomi are where your buyers are, Facemaker is a strong pick today. If you're focused on Wear OS and Amazfit, want richer animation and a free place to publish, or want to grow into apps, download WristForge and try it on one of your designs.