Comparison

Charty for Shortcuts vs Widget Plus

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

Head to head
About

Charty for Shortcuts

Enhance Apple's Shortcuts app with powerful charting capabilities. Create and customize various chart types directly from your automations. Unlock advanced features for unlimited data visualization.

Highlights
  • 24 new actions for Shortcuts
  • Create 7 different chart types
  • Add unlimited series (premium)
  • Style charts and axes (premium)
  • Export charts as images (premium)
  • Update widgets
Features
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Charty is the ultimate charting companion for Shortcuts. Whether you're tracking workouts, visualizing health data, monitoring budgets, or building dashboards from any app on your iPhone or iPad — Charty makes it effortless to go from raw numbers to beautiful, shareable charts. CREATE CHARTS YOUR WAY Build bar charts, line graphs, scatter plots, area charts, pie charts, donut charts, and ring charts — all from Shortcuts automations you already use. Combine multiple data series, customize every detail, and see your data come to life. STUNNING WIDGETS ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Display your charts as widgets that update automatically. Track your goals, habits, fitness progress, or anything else — right from your Home Screen. POWERFUL DATA TOOLS Go beyond simple plotting. Group, filter, and accumulate values. Add moving averages and trend lines. Import data from CSV files. Export charts as high-resolution images to share or save. STYLE EVERYTHING Fine-tune colors, markers, axis labels, date formats, floating-point precision, and more. Apply custom themes to keep your charts consistent and polished. Stack bars, customize line thickness, and highlight the data that matters most. LEARN AS YOU GO Access 16 built-in tutorials that walk you through creating your own Shortcuts — from simple charts to advanced data workflows. No coding required. FREE TO START Create unlimited charts with up to 2 series per chart — completely free. Unlock Charty Premium to access all 25 Shortcuts actions, unlimited series, full styling controls, area charts, CSV import, image export, widgets, and more. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Widget Plus

This app allows you to create custom widgets for your iPhone home screen. Combine multiple features like stocks, news, notes, and weather into a single, personalized widget to save space and see more information at a glance.

Highlights
  • Customizable widget layouts and colors
  • Combine multiple features into one widget
  • Real-time stock tracking
  • News aggregation
  • Note-taking and to-do lists
  • Weather and clock integration
Features
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Widget Plus is an integrated app that allows you to customize layouts, colors and combine multiple features into one widget in iPhone home screen iOS 14. This app will give you more information at a glance, better organize your widgets and save more space on your home screen. By merging different features into an integrated widget, you can easily track real-time stocks, read the latest news, view your notes or other information right on your home screen. Widget Plus app brings it all together: - Quickly view multiple information in one single large widget on your iOS 14 homescreen - 3 different widgets size to choose. - Choose your favorite template style & color - Customize widget content with multiple features: Stocks, Notes and Weather, Clock, Calendar, News, Reminders (upcoming) - Personalize information in your widget that matter to you - Create informative beautiful homescreen on your iPhone iOs 14. Create your own widget with Widget Plus! Available features: ■ News: Keep up with the topic and trends you are interested in, whether that's Business, Politics, Science, Sports, Technology, Health or Entertainment, etc. ■ Stocks: Track real-time price quotes and charts for over 100,000 financial instruments, traded on over 70 global exchanges. We cover NYSE, NASAQ, AMEX, EURONEX, TSX, INDEXES, ETFs, MUTUAL FUNDS, FOREX and CRYPTO. ■ Notes: Take a note and make To-do list. Other features will be updated in the upcoming versions. Terms of Use: http://vulcanlabs.co/terms-of-use/ Privacy Policy: http://vulcanlabs.co/privacy-policy/ You are welcome to contact us at support@vulcanlabs.co

Screenshots

Charty for Shortcuts4 screens
Widget Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Charty for Shortcuts at 78% against Widget Plus's 0%. Charty for Shortcuts also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (344 vs 23). Widget Plus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads 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. Charty for Shortcuts sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Widget Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Charty for Shortcuts holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Charty for Shortcuts has 344 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Charty for Shortcuts's written reviews are positive against 0% of Widget Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Charty for Shortcuts ships an update every 3 weeks, Widget Plus weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Charty for Shortcuts versus Widget Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCharty for ShortcutsWidget Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (344 ratings) — better3.0 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings344 — better23
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRapptor Desenvolvimento de Softwares LTDASMART WIDGET LABS COMPANY LIMITED

Customer experience

Charty for Shortcuts

All ratings327 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral1.2%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive78.2%
Neutral4.5%
Negative17.3%

Widget Plus

All ratings23 ratings
Positive47.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative52.2%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Charty for Shortcuts

Subscriptions2
  • Charty Premium$1.991 Month
  • Charty Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time5
  • Small tip$0.99
  • Medium tip$2.99
  • Charty Premium$4.99
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  • Large tip$4.99
  • Charty Premium$99.99
None

Widget Plus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Charty for Shortcuts free?
Charty for Shortcuts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Widget Plus free?
Widget Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Charty for Shortcuts or Widget Plus?
Charty for Shortcuts is rated higher. Charty for Shortcuts averages 4.6 out of 5 from 344 ratings, while Widget Plus averages 3.0 from 23 ratings.
Do Charty for Shortcuts or Widget Plus have ads?
Neither Charty for Shortcuts nor Widget Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Charty for Shortcuts or Widget Plus?
Charty for Shortcuts ships an update every 3 weeks, and Widget Plus weekly. Most recently, Charty for Shortcuts was updated on October 29, 2026 and Widget Plus on October 24, 2026.

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