Affirmations & Quote Widget vs Widget Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Affirmations & Quote 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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Put a new quote on your Lock Screen every day. Custom Widget gives you quote and affirmation widgets, plus clean time, date and battery widgets for your Home Screen. QUOTE & AFFIRMATION WIDGETS • 500 quotes in 10 categories: Confidence, Self-love, Motivational, Mindfulness, Productivity, Romantic, Healing, Dreams & Goals, Gratitude & Life and Book quotes • Short, positive lines you can read at a glance, like daily affirmations • A new quote every day from the category you choose • Lock Screen quote widget, free • Home Screen quote widget in every size TIME, DATE & BATTERY WIDGET • Time, date, weekday and iPhone battery % in one widget • 40+ ready-made designs, or build your own • Change the font and color of every part, pick a background color, an image or your own photo • 24-hour time and US date format options • Small, medium and large widgets, extra large on iPad LOCK SCREEN SHORTCUTS • Contact widgets: call, text or FaceTime a favorite person with one tap • Link widgets: open any website right from your Lock Screen • Show a name, an icon from more than 3,000 symbols, or a photo EASY TO SET UP • Live preview before you add a widget • Step-by-step guide for adding widgets to the Home Screen and Lock Screen • Works on iPhone and iPad, in 33 languages PRO Custom Widget is free with ads. PRO is a one-time purchase that unlocks all designs, fonts and photo backgrounds, the Home Screen quote widget and more Lock Screen widgets, and removes ads. Lock Screen widgets require iOS 16 or later. Privacy Policy: https://legal.apptoro.support/hc/en-us/articles/4417829814289 Terms of Service: https://legal.apptoro.support/hc/en-us/articles/4417715945233
Widget Maker
Design and customize your own widgets for your device's home screen. Personalize them with your favorite pictures as backgrounds and add custom text to make them uniquely yours.
- Create custom widgets
- Use favorite pictures for background
- Place widgets on home screen
- Add custom text
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Widget Maker lets you create beautiful, personalized widgets for your Home Screen. ● Photo Widgets Turn your favorite photos into widgets. Choose from Small, Medium, and Large sizes to fit your Home Screen perfectly. Set auto-refresh to rotate photos at your preferred interval. ● Calendar Widget View the current month at a glance. In Medium size, the calendar and your photo are displayed side by side. ● Fully Customizable - Date & time overlays: month, day, weekday, and more - 20+ fonts including serif, rounded, and handwritten styles - 16 color options for text - Text shadow with customizable color - Adjustable text size and alignment - Custom text input ● Easy to Use 1. Add your photos 2. Customize text, font, color, and layout 3. Place the widget on your Home Screen Make your Home Screen truly yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Maker at none against Affirmations & Quote Widget's 6. Widget Maker also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks). Affirmations & Quote Widget's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (55% vs 43%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Affirmations & Quote Widget sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Widget Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Affirmations & Quote Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 322 and 187 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Affirmations & Quote Widget's written reviews are positive against 43% of Widget Maker's.
Affirmations & Quote Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, Widget Maker every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Affirmations & Quote Widget | Widget Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (322 ratings) — better | 4.3 (187 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.3% of reviews — better | 43.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 322 — better | 187 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 184 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | App Toro | Akeome Studio |
Customer experience
Affirmations & Quote Widget
Widget Maker
Bugs and requests
Affirmations & Quote Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Widget Maker
Reported bugs
9 issues- Widgets disappear after deleting photo
- Widgets don't show up after update
- Black borders around pictures
- Widget picture is spread out
- Cannot add new widgets
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- Cannot see picture, yellow overlay
- Some photos don't work
- App teleports off when uploading
- PNG files not displayed
Requested features
5 requests- More font options
- English instructions
- Ability to add multiple widgets
- Fix PNG file support
- More font options
In-app purchases
Affirmations & Quote Widget
- PRO Widgets$3.99
- PRO Widgets2 variants$5.99
- PRO Widgets2 variants$7.99
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- PRO Widgets$11.99
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
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