Quantumult X vs ApowerWidgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quantumult X
This powerful network utility allows web developers to debug HTTP traffic and modify requests/responses. It also enables users to customize proxy settings, supporting various protocols and advanced filtering for network requests.
- HTTP request/response debugging
- MitM HTTP decryption
- HTTP rewrite for traffic modification
- Customized DNS settings
- Shadowsocks proxy support
- WebSocket and TLS proxying
- Customizable network request policies
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Quantumult completely rebuilt from scratch, and includes a lots of awesome new features! Quantumult X is a powerful network tool for web developers and users who need to customize their proxies. For web develpers: - HTTP activity can record the whole HTTP request and response including body(HTTP debug should be enabled). - The MitM HTTP decryption can work for the traffics from TUN interface(MitM should be enabled). - HTTP rewrite with URL 302/307 redirect or request header/body modification or response header/body modification(Rewrite should be enabled). - Customized DNS settings for specific domains(IPv4 or IPv6), only can be edited in configuration profile. For users who need to customize their proxies: - Supports shadowsocks proxy protocol. - Supports shadowsocks with obfs-tls or obfs-http plugins. - Supports shadowsocks over websocket and tls(server side should be deployed by v2ray-core). - Supports UDP relay if the server supports it. - Supports different policies for network request by using customized filters(host, host suffix, host keyword...). Privacy Policy: https://quantumult.app/x/privacy/ Contact Us: support@quantumult.app
ApowerWidgets
Personalize your phone's home screen with custom picture widgets and wallpapers. Add photo widgets, countdowns for important events, and time recorders. Offers a customization service to bring your unique ideas to life.
- Picture widgets
- Customizable photo widgets
- Countdown widgets
- Time recorder widgets
- HD wallpapers
- Customization service
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ApowerWidgets offers you original and creative picture widgets, wallpapers for different themes, such as emoji, cartoon, couple, cute animals, etc. And it also provides you with customizable photo widgets, countdown widgets and time recorder widgets. You can custom your home screen background as you like using this photo widget. Better yet, you can also offer us your ideas for your unique picture widget, wallpapers and more. We will try our best to satisfy your needs. Advantages of ApowerWidgets: * Personalize your home background with pretty picture widgets and cool HD wallpapers produced by professional designers. * Add customizable photo widget to put the photos of your family, pets or any photo in your gallery to your phone screen. * Add countdown widget to remind you of the date of important events, such as holiday countdown, anniversary countdown. * Add time recorder widget to calculate the days you want to record. * Easy to use. No complicated steps. * Provides you with customization service. We will help to turn your ideas into reality. * Supports iPhones running iOS 14 and above. Join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/155315583004499/ Contact us: support@apowersoft.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ApowerWidgets at Free against Quantumult X's $9.99. ApowerWidgets also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and review sentiment (69% vs 50%). Quantumult X's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 1). On ads and iOS requirement 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
ApowerWidgets is free to download; Quantumult X costs $9.99 up front. ApowerWidgets sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Quantumult X asks for nothing beyond the download.
ApowerWidgets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quantumult X has 1.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Quantumult X's written reviews are positive against 69% of ApowerWidgets's.
Quantumult X ships an update every 2 months, ApowerWidgets every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quantumult X | ApowerWidgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (1.6K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.9% of reviews | 68.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | #25 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cross Utility Ltd | Wangxu Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Quantumult X
ApowerWidgets
Bugs and requests
Quantumult X
Reported bugs
3 issues- Issues with iOS 18 certificate installation
- Incompatibility with system VPN
- Rewrite and MITM functions not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Support for new protocols like Hysteria2 and VLESS
- Remote access and node switching
- Widgets for quick access
- Batch speed testing for multiple nodes
ApowerWidgets
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Quantumult X
No in-app purchases
ApowerWidgets
- Monthly Subscription$1.491 Month
- Yearly Subscription$3.491 Year
- ApowerWidgets Monthly VIP$2.99
- ApowerWidgets Yearly VIP$7.99
