Handy User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience18.0% of reviews
Neutral7.1% of reviews
Negative experience74.9% of reviews

~ Based on 1,223 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Handy Safe?

Handy - Live Widget Wallpaper appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Handy is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 24,236 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

88.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 24,236 App Store ratings for Handy.

Is Handy Legit?

Handy - Live Widget Wallpaper appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Handy is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Don’t install this garbage it’s a scam

When you try to exit out of the membership then a gold egg will pop up and say to open it when you do it will tell you for you to pay once and never pay again I did it and never got my money back not just that it doesn’t work for anything in the app they are scammers stay away !!!!

Predatory Monetization

Core idea is good - artists get paid for their designs, neat. Problem is the app feels worse than Temu with its pop up “Just buy now!” “Spin the wheel to get a discount!” absolute nonsense. Its a let down bc the themes are cool, but the way the devs push their subscription model feels disingenuine and scummy. Absolutely avoid this app
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Not what you think it is

I wish I could get a refund. If I could I would. The widgets are not what you think it’s gonna be. The icons don’t really work except as book marks. It’s lot of backwards things to get it to work. Not worth the money

Pay to use

Can’t do anything without paying first

WILL BURN YOUR PHONE!

Close — it’ll heat it up so much in your hand you’ll think it’s about to explode.

Any time you have Handy open itself, it increases my iPhone temperature by a measurable 5 degrees. Burns my battery in an hour, destroys my phone and wastes it down.

Just NEVER have the app open and you’ll be fine. If you open it accidentally, you’re realize in seconds when your phone becomes a nuclear fission device and burns your hand / pocket.
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Hate it

You need to pay in order to just get ONE good thing it’s annoying

Horrible app

Awful app that constantly spams you to pay money. If you don’t want to pay to use the app don’t bother downloading it. Nothing works properly if you haven’t paid and most content is behind a paywall anyway. The widget it showed me at the top of the phone was a just a horrible bright green ad trying to get my to pay for the app again.
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Not Free - Clickbait Marketing

The app markets its self as a platform where you can buy custom themes for your iPhone. However, the app immediate jumps the gun in asking you to give it a 5 star review in order to receive a 80% off deal on a membership unrelated to the UGC marketplace. Then in order to download free or paid themes made by others, you have to pay for a completely different membership, then you can buy their theme. Think of that for a second. You have to buy a membership in order to buy a theme made by somebody who doesn’t work for these guys! And you can’t use the themes you buy unless you’re still on their membership. Very different messaging than the ads that they were pushing on Instagram where they claim that you don’t need to spend any money on most themes on their platform.

Do not download this app, promotes fraudulent memberships that give you stuff that’s originally marketed as free. You can get a much better experience by making an iOS app by yourself that does the exact same thing. For free even!
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Scam

I tried the app and I downloaded a widget but when I tried putting it on my phone it didn’t work and this app is a scam so please do not download the app 0/10.

stole my money and gave no premium benefits

extremely scammy, do not recommend this app at all

Unusable

I saw it on a IG add decided to give it a try. They advertised pokemon so I knew it wasn’t going to be 100 percent legit. Maybe a thing to build your own Widgets and Dynamic Island pets.

The UI is so cluttered it look like a Japanese wifu idle game

You can’t find exactly what you want you have to settle for something half assed or you see the same type and style 50 times.

It’s also the only 50 available the more you scroll down the more it refreshes what you already saw. and if you want to move at all like a gif you must pay.

I paid for a year and regret it. Also you have to have your auto charge on to use the subscription benefits. If you pay for a year then turn auto charge off you can no longer use what you paid in advance for.
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Uncalled charging

Literally charged me 10 dollars immediately when it said 38 cents per week and 20 a year no where did it say ten dollars

I just want Kirby Dynamic Island

Surely you can give just one thing for free i am not paying that much just to get one thing. I want Kirby 😔

Bad subscription

It charged me multiple times once.

Arnaque

Tout est payant

Nothing free all behind a pay wall

Great idea some nice looking things bug Jo way to try without signing up to a year. Deleted and will report all ads I see as false advertising

So cute

Love all the options to personalize my phone

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Tout est payant

Primary Advertised Features are Paywalled

The Dynamic Island GIFs, while initially enticing, require either a $20 one time payment, or a yearly subscription.

Nul

Tout est payant