Comparison

Meow vs Widgtor

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

Head to head
About

Meow

Customize your device's home screen with a variety of elegant and practical widgets. Choose from over 300 styles to display quotes, notes, tasks, photos, step counts, clocks, and more. Enhance your productivity and personalize your device's look.

Highlights
  • 300+ widget styles
  • Quote widget
  • Time note/countdown widget
  • Task list widget
  • Photo widget with frames
  • Today steps widget
  • Clock widget
  • Quick phrase keyboard extension
Features
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"Meow" is a lightweight, elegant and practical tool set of widget. It is only 10+ Mb in size, but it can be matched with more than 300 styles of small components. Of course, the large number is not the point. The point is no matter how to match it. , The results are all elegant and beautiful, and you can easily get the widgets you like. In the current version, "Meow" provides 9 widgets, which are composed of 8 desktop widgets and 1 keyboard extension. These functions are "Quote", "Time Note", "Launch" and "Task List", "Photo", "Today Steps", "Clock", "Calendar" and "Quick Phrase", these small tools are not limited to good-looking, most of them are also very useful. Even if they are separated from the desktop widgets, they have relatively complete functions in the app. Function Quick View - Quote: Display a paragraph of text input on the widget, which can be used for self-excitation, motto, simple reminders, etc.; you can also choose your favorite style for different content texts. -Time Note: Almost all-round countdown day tool, supports countdown days, cumulative days, percentage progress display, cycle cycles, multi-color themes, etc. - Quick Phrase: Expand the shortcut phrases on the keyboard. The simple design fits the original interface. You can enter frequently used phrases into the app. When you need to use it, you only need to long press to switch the keyboard and quickly click to use it. - Launch: Support custom URL Schemes launch tool, built-in dozens of unified styles and beautifully designed icons, which are efficient and beautiful. - Task List: A concise tool that can be used alone in the app, suitable for recording some simple to-do items. - Photo: Add your favorite photos, and select the frame style to present on the desktop; some styles provide the function of displaying the date, making this not a simple display of photos. - Today Steps: A widget showing the daily steps, you can set your own goals, and you can also generate a static map. - Clock: The design concept is mainly decoration, provides a number of interesting clock styles, and is continuously updated. Privacy Meow optionally integrates with Apple’s HealthKit API. This data is used to display your step on today steps widget. Subscription - Become Meow Pro to unlock all Meow features. - Subscription membership costs $1.49 per year, with a 7-day free trial. Payment will be made directly through your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. After the purchase or trial, the renewal will be carried out automatically, and the Apple iTunes account will be deducted within 24 hours before the expiration. After the deduction is successful, the subscription cycle will be extended by 1 subscription cycle. You can modify the automatic subscription settings in the system account settings. If you need to cancel the renewal, please do so at least 24 hours before the current billing period. Privacy Policy: https://shimo.im/docs/904wG0xy2jErhOf8/ Terms of Use: https://shimo.im/docs/G2luo02rR7Y9COXx/

About

Widgtor

This app offers extensive customization for widgets, allowing users to control style, transparency, colors, and add text, pictures, or icons. It also features a community-driven widget store for sharing and downloading creations.

Highlights
  • Customizable widget styles
  • Add text, pictures, and icons
  • Adjust transparency and colors
  • Community widget store
  • Upload and download custom widgets
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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The most powerful widget customization tool. -Exquisite style control: · Support rectangle, text, picture, SF Symbol icon · Support adjustment of transparency, shadow, rounded corners, border, rotation, color, etc. · Support the adjustment of text font, font size, stroke, alignment, spacing, color, etc. · Support for adding pictures · Support adding SF Symbol · Easy-to-use editing interface, smart adsorption editing, quick copy sorting layer -Exquisite and powerful Widget Store: · You can upload self-made components and share them with the community, or download components shared by others, so that creativity is no longer alone Also supports iCloud synchronization

Screenshots

Meow4 screens
Widgtor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meow at 83% against Widgtor's 33%. Meow also leads on rating (3.8 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). Widgtor's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Meow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per year and Widgtor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meow holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meow has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Meow's written reviews are positive against 33% of Widgtor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meow ships an update every 5 weeks, Widgtor daily. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Meow versus Widgtor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeowWidgtor
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (12 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS1514.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer鑫 吴骑滔 杨

Customer experience

Meow

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative4.2%

Widgtor

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Meow

Subscriptions1
  • Meow Pro - Year7 Days trial$1.491 Year
One-time1
  • Meow Pro$2.99
3 purchases

Widgtor

Subscriptions2
  • Month Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Year Subscription$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Permanent Purchase$9.99

Questions

Is Meow free?
Meow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Widgtor free?
Widgtor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Meow or Widgtor?
Meow is rated higher. Meow averages 3.8 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Widgtor averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Meow or Widgtor have ads?
Widgtor shows ads; Meow does not.
Which is updated more often, Meow or Widgtor?
Meow ships an update every 5 weeks, and Widgtor daily. Most recently, Meow was updated on October 15, 2026 and Widgtor on October 1, 2026.

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