Comparison

Affirmations & Quote Widget vs Custom Widgets

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Custom Widgets

Design your home screen with personalized widgets. Add your own photos, text, or the current date. Customize colors, fonts, and even include an analog clock for a unique look.

Highlights
  • Custom photo widgets
  • Text widgets with font customization
  • Date display
  • Background color options
  • Analog clock integration
  • Unlimited widget creation
Features
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Personalize your home screen with your photos, text or date. Super easy to use and configure. Currently our widget support: - Set a photo of all sizes. - Unlimited different widgets - Set background color - Add analog clock - Set any text (customize font, size and color) - Show date (customize font, size and color). ----------------------------------- Information about the auto-renewable nature of the subscription - Subscription period is monthly. Every month your subscription renews. - Prices for subscriptions depends on which package you choose and will be seen in payment screen. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. - You can cancel your subscription via this url: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 - Privacy policy: http://privacy.safecloudapp.com - Term of use: http://tos.safecloudapp.com - Subscription Information : http://subscription.safecloudapp.com -----------------------------------

Screenshots

Affirmations & Quote Widget4 screens
Custom Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Affirmations & Quote Widget at free with in-app purchases against Custom Widgets's subscription. Affirmations & Quote Widget also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Custom Widgets's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Affirmations & Quote Widget sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Custom Widgets sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Affirmations & Quote Widget against 4.5 for Custom Widgets. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 322 and 324 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Affirmations & Quote Widget's written reviews are positive against 61% of Custom Widgets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Affirmations & Quote Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, Custom Widgets weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Affirmations & Quote Widget versus Custom Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAffirmations & Quote WidgetCustom Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (322 ratings)4.5 (324 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.3% of reviews61.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings322324 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size184 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApp ToroShesek LLC

Customer experience

Affirmations & Quote Widget

All ratings322 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral6.8%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive55.3%
Neutral7.9%
Negative36.8%

Custom Widgets

All ratings319 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral3.8%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Affirmations & Quote Widget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Custom Widgets

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • 🐛 Widget image is framed with an ugly black border
  • 🐛 Cannot delete widgets
  • 🐛 Unable to change photo
  • 🐛 Only one widget can be added
  • 🐛 Only the first photo is used for subsequent widgets
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  • 🐛 No settings for widgets

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add a delete button for widgets
  • Increase the number of available widgets
  • Allow changing the text under the widget
  • Provide more photos to add

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Affirmations & Quote Widget

One-time4
  • PRO Widgets$3.99
  • PRO Widgets2 variants$5.99
  • PRO Widgets2 variants$7.99
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  • PRO Widgets$11.99
1 purchases

Custom Widgets

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month

Questions

Is Affirmations & Quote Widget free?
Affirmations & Quote Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Custom Widgets free?
Custom Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Affirmations & Quote Widget or Custom Widgets?
Custom Widgets is rated higher. Affirmations & Quote Widget averages 4.5 out of 5 from 322 ratings, while Custom Widgets averages 4.5 from 324 ratings.
Do Affirmations & Quote Widget or Custom Widgets have ads?
Affirmations & Quote Widget shows ads; Custom Widgets does not.
Which is updated more often, Affirmations & Quote Widget or Custom Widgets?
Affirmations & Quote Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, and Custom Widgets weekly. Most recently, Affirmations & Quote Widget was updated on November 7, 2026 and Custom Widgets on November 3, 2026.

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