PhotoLink widget vs WidgetBucket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PhotoLink widget
Create custom widgets for your home screen to display favorite photos or save frequently accessed web pages. Access saved content offline, organize with folders, and enjoy automatic content rotation.
- Create custom photo and web page widgets
- Offline access to saved web pages
- Web page bookmarking and direct launch
- Photo and web page organization with folders
- Automatic content rotation via timer
- iCloud synchronization
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Create your own widgets with the information you want to see at a glance. PhotoLink lets you turn photos, web pages, schedules, notes and useful information into your own Home Screen widgets. Keep the things you use every day right on your Home Screen — your work schedule, a favorite website, a shopping list, a reminder, the weather forecast, exchange rates, or a photo you love. Create widgets that fit the way you use your iPhone: • Add your favorite photos • Display any web page directly on your Home Screen • Keep schedules and timetables visible • Create simple notes and to-do lists • Save useful websites and bookmarks • Check weather and forecasts • View currency exchange rates • Display text, quotes, formulas and other useful information • Organize widgets into folders • Rotate multiple items automatically Web pages on your Home Screen Have a website you check every day? Add it to PhotoLink and keep it available directly from your Home Screen. Use it for work information, timetables, dashboards, news, reference pages, shopping lists, or any other website you want to keep within reach. Use PhotoLink for • Work schedules and timetables • Calendars and agendas • To-do lists and reminders • Shopping lists • Favorite websites and bookmarks • Weather and forecasts • Currency exchange rates • Important notes and reference information • Photos and memories Make your Home Screen yours Instead of opening an app every time you need information, put that information where you can see it. Create your own widgets and keep the information that matters most right on your Home Screen. PhotoLink — your information, always within reach.
WidgetBucket
Personalize your device's home screen with a wide variety of pre-made and customizable widgets. Add elements like clocks, calendars, fitness trackers, and reminders to create a unique and functional layout.
- Extensive widget gallery
- Customizable widget appearance
- Date & Time widgets
- Fitness tracking widgets
- Countdown and reminder widgets
- Contact shortcuts
- Analog clock designs
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WidgetBucket provides you the ability to add premade widgets or customize them to create the perfect home screen for you! With many custom widgets that you can choose from you can add beautiful and useful widgets that will make your device much more personalized! ∙ WIDGETS GALLERY ∙ Choose custom widgets from a large gallery of premade widgets, with many beautiful and useful elements such as Date & Time Widget, Fitness: Steps & Distance, Countdown Widget, Reminders, Photos, Analog Clocks, Calendars and much more! ∙ CUSTOMIZE WIDGETS ∙ You can also customize and personalize many aspects of the widget such as the background color or background photo, colors of the texts, fonts, styles and much more in order to create the best widgets experience for you! ∙ WIDGETS TYPES ∙ ∙∙ Photos - Select photos from your gallery to show on your home screen! ∙∙ Date - Shows the current date in many beautiful styles and designs ∙∙ Time - Shows the current time in a perfect and beautiful way on your home screen! ∙∙ Progress - Shows the progress of the day / week / month / year and also for any custom event that you want! ∙∙ Fitness - Shows today’s steps count and distance in a widget on your home screen! ∙∙ Contacts - Allows quick call to your favorite contacts directly from you home screen! ∙∙ Countdown - Presents the days left until an event to always remember you favorite events! ∙∙ Reminders - Never forget your reminders and show them with amazing design! ∙∙ Analog Clocks - Show the current time in an analog way with multiple styles! ∙∙ Calendar - Show the current date on a calendar view! ∙∙ QR - Scan and show QR codes directly from your home screen! There are so much to explore and create using WidgetBucket so don't waste your time and try it today! * If you choose to use Fitness Widgets, these widgets integrates with Apple Health app. This data is used to display information about your steps count and activity. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: https://www.algotwist.com/widgetbucket/privacy-policy-and-terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WidgetBucket at 4.8 against PhotoLink widget's 4.3. WidgetBucket also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). PhotoLink widget's advantage is ratings volume (92 vs 19). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. PhotoLink widget sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and WidgetBucket sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WidgetBucket holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 92 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of PhotoLink widget's written reviews are positive against 100% of WidgetBucket's.
PhotoLink widget ships an update every 4 months, WidgetBucket weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PhotoLink widget | WidgetBucket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (92 ratings) | 4.8 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 92 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ianis Plumit | AlgoTwist Ltd |
Customer experience
PhotoLink widget
WidgetBucket
In-app purchases
PhotoLink widget
- Buy developers a coffee$0.99
- Remove Ad$2.99
- Multiple Widgets$3.99
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- All$4.99
- Buy developers a pizza$4.99
- Buy developers a lunch$9.99
- Buy developers a dinner$19.99
WidgetBucket
- Best Premium Widgets3 Days trial$1.991 Month
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