Comparison

Photo Widget. vs Aesthetic Wallpapers

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Photo Widget.

Display your cherished photos directly on your iPhone and iPad Home Screen. Easily create personalized widgets from your camera roll to keep meaningful moments, like family and travel memories, always in view. Enjoy a clutter-free and personal Home Screen experience.

Highlights
  • Create photo widgets easily
  • Multiple widget sizes
  • Add photos from camera roll
  • Display on Home Screen
  • Customizable photo refresh rate
  • Option to show date
Features
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Turn your favorite memories into beautiful Home Screen widgets! Photo Widget lets you enjoy your favorite photos directly on your iPhone and iPad Home Screen. Designed to be photo-first and easy to use, Photo Widget helps you turn meaningful moments into widgets in just a few taps. No complex customization, no visual clutter - just the photos that matter most to you, always in view. Whether it’s family, friends, travels, or everyday memories, Photo Widget keeps them close throughout your day. With Photo Widget, you can: • Create photo widgets in just 3 simple steps • Choose from multiple widget sizes • Add photos directly from your camera roll • Display your selected memories on iPhone and iPad Home Screens • Set how often photos refresh, at your own pace • Optionally show today’s date for a subtle, useful touch • Photo Widget is built for clarity, ease, and emotional connection so your Home Screen feels more personal! NEW: Shared Albums Create shared photo albums and let the people closest to you enjoy the same memories on their Home Screen. Whether it’s family moments, trips, celebrations, or everyday snapshots, sharing albums makes it easy to keep everyone connected through the photos that matter most. Photo Widget is built for clarity, ease, and emotional connection, so your Home Screen feels more personal. Have any questions? Please check if the answers are available in the Frequently Asked Questions in the app Settings. Have suggestions or unable to find the answers to your questions? Our support team is ready and happy to help at support@impalastudios.com! Photo Widget is an auto-renewing subscription, available weekly (with a 3-day free trial) or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase and renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Prices are shown in the app. Terms & Conditions: https://impalastudios.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://impalastudios.com/privacy WE LOVE YOUR FEEDBACK As always, we appreciate and value your opinion. Enjoying Photo Widget or have a suggestion? Let us know! feedback@impalastudios.com

About

Aesthetic Wallpapers

Personalize your iOS device with a wide selection of free aesthetic themes, widgets, and wallpapers. Create a cohesive look for your home and lock screens with matching sets. Easily browse and download designs to reflect your unique style.

Highlights
  • Free aesthetic themes
  • Matching widgets
  • Customizable wallpapers
  • Home screen customization
  • Lock screen customization
  • Easy-to-use interface
Features
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Make your iPhone yours. Aesthetic brings curated wallpapers, customizable widgets and icon packs together into complete looks, so your Home Screen and Lock Screen finally match. PICK A LOOK, APPLY IT ALL • Themes pair a wallpaper, a set of widgets and an icon pack that belong together • Preview the whole Home Screen before you commit, on iPhone and iPad • Set every widget of a theme in one go, and swap looks whenever you like WALLPAPERS THAT FIT • Hand-picked and sorted by mood: minimal, dark, pastel, cute, anime, nature, neon and more • Live wallpapers that move on your Lock Screen • Save to Photos in a tap, full resolution, no watermark WIDGETS YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN • Clocks, calendars, quotes, photos, countdowns, battery, music, moon phase, habits and more • Recolor any design, add a border, choose a font and decide what it shows • Small, medium and large, plus Lock Screen and StandBy sizes • Interactive widgets: tick a to-do, start a timer, log a mood, right from the Home Screen ICON PACKS, THE PAINLESS WAY • Choose a pack, pick your apps, install in one pass • Icons open apps instantly, with no pop-up every time • The apps you use most are supported, and new ones are added without an app update MADE FOR THIS • No account needed, and subscribers never see ads • Not ready to subscribe? Where available, watch a short video to unlock a locked item • New looks land every week • Beautiful on iPhone and iPad, in light and dark PREMIUM Browsing is free. Premium unlocks the full catalog of wallpapers, widgets, icon packs and themes, and removes ads. Choose a weekly or yearly plan, and cancel anytime in Settings. Where the App Store cannot take payments, ads stand in for Premium: a short video unlocks an item, with occasional ads between saves. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://themes.crispapp.co.uk/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://themes.crispapp.co.uk/support

Screenshots

Photo Widget.4 screens
Aesthetic Wallpapers4 screens

Verdict

The call

Photo Widget. and Aesthetic Wallpapers both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 76% of Aesthetic Wallpapers's written reviews are positive against 54% of Photo Widget.'s. Aesthetic Wallpapers also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Photo Widget.'s advantage is ratings volume (32K vs 2.7K). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Photo Widget. sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Aesthetic Wallpapers sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Photo Widget. holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Photo Widget. has 32K ratings behind it against 2.7K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Photo Widget.'s written reviews are positive against 76% of Aesthetic Wallpapers's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Widget. ships an update every 10 days, Aesthetic Wallpapers fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Photo Widget. versus Aesthetic Wallpapers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Widget.Aesthetic Wallpapers
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (32K ratings) — better4.4 (2.7K ratings)
Positive reviews54.1% of reviews75.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32K — better2.7K
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperImpala StudiosAbdelbari Bouchiba

Customer experience

Photo Widget.

All ratings31,601 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral4.0%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews514 reviews
Positive54.1%
Neutral9.7%
Negative36.2%

Aesthetic Wallpapers

All ratings2,704 ratings
Positive85.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews290 reviews
Positive75.9%
Neutral10.7%
Negative13.4%

User reviews

Photo Widget.

From 32K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💯 Customizable photo widgets
  • 🎨 Ability to choose own photos
  • 🆓 Free app with no paid version required
  • 🤩 Simple and easy to use
  • ⭐️ Great for displaying memories

Room to improve

  • 🕰 Slow photo refresh rate
  • 🖼 Blurry/low-quality photo display
  • 📆 Unnecessary date display on photos
  • 🙈 Intrusive ads
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns with data collection

Aesthetic Wallpapers

From 2.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤩 Cute and aesthetic wallpapers
  • 💫 Wide variety of wallpaper styles
  • 🎨 Vibrant and high-quality images
  • 🔍 Easy to search and find desired wallpapers
  • 💾 Convenient to save wallpapers to gallery

Room to improve

  • 🕰️ Slow loading and lagging issues
  • 📢 Too many repetitive ads
  • 🔍 Ineffective search functionality
  • 🔒 Lack of customization options
  • 📱 Compatibility issues on certain devices

Bugs and requests

Photo Widget.

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Widgets not showing up in selection menu
  • Photos not rotating/refreshing as expected
  • Widgets disappearing from home screen
  • Inability to delete/rearrange existing widgets

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to shuffle/randomize photo order
  • Option to create multiple unique photo widgets
  • Shorter photo refresh intervals (e.g. 15s, 30s)
  • Customization options for widget appearance
  • Paid version to remove ads

Aesthetic Wallpapers

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Wallpapers not saving properly to device gallery
  • Inconsistent behavior when applying wallpapers
  • Certain categories showing no available images

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more diverse wallpaper categories
  • Implement a user-friendly interface for browsing
  • Introduce a way to create and upload custom wallpapers
  • Provide an option to remove ads without a subscription
  • Optimize the app for better performance on all devices

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Photo Widget.

Subscriptions3
  • Unlimited widgets. Remove ads3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Unlimited widgets. Remove ads$12.491 Year
  • Unlimited widgets. Remove ads$24.991 Year
4 purchases

Aesthetic Wallpapers

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove ads$0.99
  • Lifetime Subscription$49.99

Questions

Is Photo Widget. free?
Photo Widget. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aesthetic Wallpapers free?
Aesthetic Wallpapers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Photo Widget. or Aesthetic Wallpapers?
Photo Widget. is rated higher. Photo Widget. averages 4.6 out of 5 from 32K ratings, while Aesthetic Wallpapers averages 4.4 from 2.7K ratings.
Do Photo Widget. or Aesthetic Wallpapers have ads?
Both Photo Widget. and Aesthetic Wallpapers show ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Widget. or Aesthetic Wallpapers?
Photo Widget. ships an update every 10 days, and Aesthetic Wallpapers fortnightly. Most recently, Photo Widget. was updated on November 9, 2026 and Aesthetic Wallpapers on November 6, 2026.

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