Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget vs Color Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget
Personalize your iPhone's Home and Lock Screens with inspiring quote widgets and practical tools. Access contacts, websites, time, and date at a glance. Customize with your own photos and fonts for a unique look.
- Inspirational quotes widgets
- Contact widgets for quick access
- Link widgets for favorite websites
- Time and Date widgets
- Customizable text and backgrounds
- Personalize with own photos and fonts
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Keep up with the latest trends and give your iPhone a whole new look with beautiful quotes widgets. Turn your Home Screen and Lock Screen into a daily source of inspiration with carefully selected quotes you'll actually want to read. Choose from hundreds of inspirational quotes widgets across popular categories like book quotes, romantic quotes, self-love quotes, motivational quotes, productivity quotes and more. Whether you want encouragement, calm, or a little spark of romance, WIDGET helps you start and end your day with words that matter. Designed for the latest iOS 26, WIDGET lets you personalize your iPhone exactly to your mood, style, and mindset. And that's not all. Alongside quotes widgets, you will find here also practical time, date, contact and link widgets that make your phone even more useful at a glance! WIDGET app allows you to add: LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS 1. Quotes widget – inspiration at every glance Choose from 10 different quote categories, including book quotes, romantic quotes, self-love quotes, motivational quotes, and more. Enjoy hundreds of aesthetic quotes designed to be read, felt, and remembered. 2. Contact widgets – quick access to people you care about Call or text your favorite contacts with a single tap. Choose the look of your contact widget. Add a phone number for calls, messages, or FaceTime. 3. Link widgets – instant access to your favorite websites Add a link to any website directly on your lock screen. Choose an icon from thousands of available options. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Widgets can be rearranged using tap & hold gestures and resized to fit your Home Screen layout. Each widget is available in three sizes for the best look of your screen. 1. Quotes widgets - Show inspirational quotes from various categories to motivate, uplift, or calm your mind throughout the day. - Customize the text color to perfectly match your style. 2. Time & Date widgets - Choose from a wide range of theme colors and background styles. - Work with 1,500+ fonts and 1M+ stock photos. - Upload your own photos and use them as widget backgrounds. - Make each widget unique with custom fonts and colors. LIFETIME LICENSE A one-time purchase of a lifetime license grants access to all features with no additional fees. ------- Thank you for choosing WIDGET. Let us know how much you enjoy making your Home Screen and Lock Screen stand out from the crowd — and feel free to leave a review on the App Store. Privacy Policy: https://legal.apptoro.support/hc/en-us/articles/4417829814289 Terms of Service: https://legal.apptoro.support/hc/en-us/articles/4417715945233
Color Widgets
Personalize your device's home and lock screens with custom widgets, icon packs, themes, and wallpapers. Choose from thousands of pre-designed options or create your own unique look.
- Unlimited widget customization
- Thousands of predesigned widgets
- Custom icon packs
- 14,000+ themes and wallpapers
- Daily new themes
- Photo widgets
- Health data integration
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Color Widgets makes it simple to add aesthetic and handy widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Browse thousands of predesigned widgets or, better yet, design your own with the easy-to-use widget customizer. Color Widgets doesn't just stop at widgets... you can also discover endless icon packs, themes, and wallpapers to perfectly match your aesthetic and interests. From customizing your widgets to changing your app icons and wallpaper, Color Widgets is THE destination to transform your device. UNLIMITED WIDGETS Customize each widget with no limits by adding photos, selecting styles, editing fonts, crafting a unique color scheme, and so much more. Here’s a glimpse at some of our most-used widgets: ● Photo Widget ● Time, Date & Battery Widgets ● Countdown Widget ● Weather Widgets ● Apple Music & Spotify Widget ● Calendar Widgets ● Custom Text/Quote Widget ● Activity Tracking & Pedometer Widgets ● Solar & Moon Phase Widgets …and dozens more! 15,000+ THEMES & WALLPAPERS Immerse yourself in the #1 largest collection of phone themes, with thousands of user-crafted designs that blend widgets, icon packs, and wallpapers into stunning aesthetics. Set entire themes in just a few clicks to fully transform your Lock & Home Screen. Plus, with new themes published daily by users and artists around the globe, the possibilities for customization are endless! AESTHETIC ICON PACKS Customize your app icons in seconds with Color Widgets’ custom icon packs. Replace your default app icons with custom-themed icon packs in thousands of designs. Apply a custom icon pack in just a few clicks with Color Widgets’ quick setup, or save the icons to your camera roll and set them in Shortcuts. FREE Enjoy Color Widgets for free, with an optional upgrade to supercharge your experience. If you decide to go Pro, enjoy a free 3-day trial and then it renews at USD$2.50/month billed yearly. PRIVACY-FIRST We believe that customizing your device shouldn’t come at the expense of your privacy, which is why we collect and store as little personal information as possible. Read more on how we protect your data in our privacy policy & terms of service: https://colorwidgets.app/privacy. MORE Color Widgets works on all iPhones, iPads, and Macs running iOS 14 or later and macOS 11 or later. If you choose to use the health widgets, Color Widgets integrates with the iOS Health app to collect and display health data – such as daily step count or activity progress – seamlessly from your iPhone or Apple Watch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Color Widgets at 524K against Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget's 323. Color Widgets also leads on chart position (#97 vs unranked) and review sentiment (64% vs 55%). 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
Both are free to download. Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Color Widgets sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget against 4.6 for Color Widgets. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Widgets has 524K ratings behind it against 323, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget's written reviews are positive against 64% of Color Widgets's.
Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, Color Widgets monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget | Color Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (323 ratings) | 4.6 (524K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.3% of reviews | 63.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 323 | 524K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #97 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 152 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | App Toro | Digital Charms, Inc. |
Customer experience
Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget
Color Widgets
Bugs and requests
Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Color Widgets
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widgets displaying incorrect time and battery
- Widgets causing performance issues and freezes
- Inconsistent behavior when adding/removing widgets
Requested features
5 requests- More free icon and widget options
- Ability to edit font colors and positions
- Option to create custom widgets
- Improved calendar and weather widget support
- Easier way to manage and switch between widgets
In-app purchases
Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget
- PRO Widgets$3.99
- PRO Widgets2 variants$5.99
- PRO Widgets2 variants$7.99
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- PRO Widgets$11.99
Color Widgets
- Color Widgets Pro$4.991 Month
- Color Widgets Pro3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Color Widgets Pro$6.991 Month
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- Color Widgets Pro$21.991 Year
- Color Widgets Pro$24.991 Year
- Color Widgets Pro3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Color Widgets Pro$29.991 Year
- Color Widgets Pro$34.991 Year
- Color Widgets Pro3 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Color Widgets Pro$49.99
Questions
Is Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget free?
Is Color Widgets free?
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