WebSite vs Web Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WebSite
This app monitors websites and RSS feeds for updates, saving and highlighting changes. It allows filtering of unwanted content and specified keywords to ensure you see only relevant information. It also supports reading bookmarks monitored by its Windows counterpart.
- Monitor websites
- Monitor RSS feeds
- Highlight all changes
- Filter unwanted content
- Highlight specified keywords
- Read monitored bookmarks
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WebSite-Watcher checks your favorite websites and RSS feeds for updates and changes. When changes are detected, WebSite-Watcher saves the last two versions to your device and highlights all changes in the text. Unwanted page content can be filtered with ignore filters to avoid false positives. Some features: - Monitor websites - Monitor RSS feeds - Highlight all changes - Filter unwanted content - Highlight specified keywords - Many more features to stay up-to-date! This app can also be used to read bookmarks that are monitored with the Windows version of WebSite-Watcher.
Web Widget
Add your favorite websites directly to your Home screen as widgets. Select specific areas of a webpage to display and tap the widget to open the full site.
- Add favorite websites to Home screen
- Create custom webpage widgets
- Select specific display areas
- Tap widgets to open webpages
- Support for multiple widgets
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Put your favorite website right on your Home screen. Just open the app, choose websites you want to see, and then select the area that you want to appear in a widget. You can add multiple widgets for different web pages to the Home screen You can also open the webpage by tapping on Widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Web Widget at 4.5 against WebSite's 2.9. Web Widget also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 33%). WebSite's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 14 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. WebSite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Web Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Web Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of WebSite's written reviews are positive against 43% of Web Widget's.
WebSite ships an update every 3 months, Web Widget every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WebSite | Web Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (8 ratings) | 4.5 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Aignesberger Software GmbH | LE NGUYEN QUANG PHUOC |
Customer experience
WebSite
Web Widget
In-app purchases
WebSite
- PRO-Edition$8.99
Web Widget
- Lifetime$7.99
