Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget vs Widget Box
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
Widget Box
Create and customize your own widgets for your home screen. Share your designs with friends and download widgets created by others to personalize your device.
- DIY custom widgets
- Personalize home screen
- Customize background photo/color
- Add time, date, calendar functions
- Share DIY widgets
- Download shared widgets
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Widget Box lets you DIY widgets and personalize your home screen, and you can share your own widgets or download widgets shared by others. With Widget Box, you can DIY your own widgets, including: - Customize the widget’s background photo or color. - Add time、date、calendar (.etc) functions in widget. - Share your DIY widgets to your friends. - Download any widgets from your friends. GET it right now, and just enjoy it. Terms of Use: https://widget-share.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/privacy.txt
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget at 4.5 against Widget Box's 2.0. Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget also leads on ratings volume (323 vs 1). Widget Box's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Widget Box sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget has 323 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, Widget Box weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget | Widget Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (323 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 323 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | App Toro | FortuneCan Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Lockscreen & Homescreen Widget
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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
Widget Box
- Widget Box VIP$1.991 Month
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