Shortcuts (Quick Open) vs Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shortcuts (Quick Open)
Access your most used applications instantly from various convenient locations. Launch apps directly from your lock screen, a dedicated widget, or through a long-press on their icons. Supports a wide range of system and third-party applications for rapid access.
- Launch apps from lock screen
- Today View widget shortcuts
- Haptic touch app icon shortcuts
- System app shortcuts
- Third-party app shortcuts
- Quick call to contacts
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Quickly open your favorite apps using Shortcuts! Open apps directly from the lock screen, the Today View widget, or via Haptic touch on the app icon Currently featuring shortcuts to: (System) -App Store -Calendar -iBooks -Mail -Maps -Music -Notes -Phone (choose a contact to quick call) -Photos -Podcasts -Safari (3rd Party) -Amazon -Amazon Music -Audible -Box -Dropbox -Evernote -Facebook -Facebook Messenger -Fitbit -Google -Google Calendar -Google Chrome -Google Drive -Google Gmail -Google Hangouts -Google Maps -Google Photos -HBO GO -Instagram -KakaoTalk -Kindle -Line -LinkedIn -Lyft -Netflix -Outlook -Pinterest -Pokemon Go -Reddit -Skype -Slack -Snapchat -SoundCloud -Spotify -Square Cash -Telegram -TikTok -Tinder -Twitter -Uber -Venmo -Waze -WeChat -WhatsApp -Yahoo Finance -Yahoo Weather -Yelp -Youtube -YouTube Music -Zoom
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia
Personalize your home and lock screens with thousands of pre-made widgets or create your own unique designs. Customize with icons, wallpapers, and various data displays like weather, calendar, and health.
- Thousands of pre-built widgets
- Powerful widget design tools
- Customizable icons and wallpapers
- Home and iOS 16 lock screen widgets
- Weather, Calendar, and Health widgets
- Animated GIFs and Charts
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From the team behind WatchMaker, the world’s largest watch face community, widgetopia gives you everything you need to make your Home Screen and Lock Screen feel like your own. 100,000+ WIDGETS Explore a huge library of widgets created by our community, with new designs added every day. Find clocks, weather, calendars, photos, fitness, quotes, anime, aesthetic designs and much more. MAKE IT YOURS Found something you like? Remix it. Or start from scratch and design your own with powerful tools for layers, fonts, colours, gradients, charts, formulas and live data. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Weather — current, hourly and daily • Calendars and agendas • Photos and animated GIFs • Steps, Activity rings and heart rate with Apple Health • Battery, time, date and analog or digital clocks • Countdowns, moon phases, progress bars and charts • 70+ widget themes • Transparent widgets • 5,000+ icons and complete icon packs • Wallpapers for Home Screen and Lock Screen • Custom JSON endpoints and JavaScript expressions • Import and share widgets FREE TO USE widgetopia is free to use, including the full design tools. Some widgets are marked PLUS. You can unlock them individually by watching a short video, or unlock everything with widgetopia+ and remove ads. widgetopia+ • Weekly: $3.99 USD • Yearly: $19.99 USD Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID settings. Prices may vary by country and are charged in your local currency. Requires iOS 18 or later. Privacy Policy: https://widgetopia.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://widgetopia.io/terms OPTIONAL PERMISSIONS widgetopia only asks for access when a widget needs it: • Location — weather for where you are • Calendar — show your events on widgets • Apple Health — steps, Activity rings and heart rate on widgets you choose • Photos — save wallpapers to your library • Notifications — new widgets and tips
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia at 61% against Shortcuts (Quick Open)'s 16%. Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.9) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). Shortcuts (Quick Open)'s advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Shortcuts (Quick Open) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.8K and 8.6K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Shortcuts (Quick Open)'s written reviews are positive against 61% of Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia's.
Shortcuts (Quick Open) ships an update every 4 months, Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shortcuts (Quick Open) | Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.8K ratings) | 4.5 (8.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.8% of reviews | 61.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K | 8.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Fang | Watch Faces & Widgets |
Customer experience
Shortcuts (Quick Open)
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia
User reviews
Shortcuts (Quick Open)
From 1.8K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Works great
- 💡 Useful app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🔒 Requires payment for basic features
- 👎 Confusing and not intuitive
- 💸 Waste of money
- 🤔 Doesn't work as expected
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia
From 8.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Customizable widgets
- 🎨 Wide selection of widgets
- 💡 Ability to create own widgets
- 🎨 Lots of customization options
- 👍 Easy to use
Room to improve
- 💰 Subscription/premium content
- 🐛 Widgets not updating correctly
- 🐛 Inaccurate time/weather/battery info
- 🐛 Blurry/distorted widgets on home screen
- 🔍 Difficult to find/use certain features
Bugs and requests
Shortcuts (Quick Open)
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incompatible with latest iOS version
- Google Maps shortcut keeps crashing
- Can't add shortcuts to home screen
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to create custom app shortcuts
- Improve instructions and tutorials
- Integrate with more third-party apps
- Allow adding widgets to home screen
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia
Reported bugs
4 issues- Widgets not refreshing properly
- Time/weather/battery info not updating
- Widgets appearing blurry on home screen
- Crashes/freezes when using the app
Requested features
6 requests- More free widget options
- Ability to remove Widgetopia branding
- Better tutorial/guidance
- Faster widget updates
- More font/icon options
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- Ability to launch apps from widgets
In-app purchases
Shortcuts (Quick Open)
- Upgrade$0.99
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia
- widgetopia+3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- widgetopia+ (Weekly)3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- widgetopia VIP$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$5.99
Questions
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