Affirmations & Quote Widget vs LockInNote
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
LockInNote
Quickly jot down notes directly on your home screen or lock screen widgets. Customize the appearance of your notes with various font and design options. Sync across devices using iCloud and link to other apps with URL schemes.
- Widget note-taking
- Customizable font and design
- iCloud sync
- URL scheme actions
- Share sheets
- Multi-platform support
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Memo note app specialized for widgets. When you want to take a memo, you can write it out right away on the widgets, and you can easily check the memo on the widgets anytime! The design of the memo note on the widgets can be flexibly customized, so it can be used for various purposes. - Tap the widget to immediately edit the memo note. - Font "size", "design", "color", and "weight" can be adjusted. - You can also select the alignment of multiple lines, the display pattern when no text is entered, and more. - Sync notes between devices by iCloud - You can set any "URL scheme action" to link with other apps.(iOS, iPadOS, macOS) - Share sheets allow you to easily share text to other applications.(iOS, iPadOS) Multi platform support iPhone: Home screen, Lock screen, StandBy(iOS 17) iPad: Home screen, Lock screen(iPadOS 17) Mac: Notification center, Desktop(macOS 14) Apple Watch: Complication, Smart Stack(watchOS 10)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LockInNote at 5.0 against Affirmations & Quote Widget's 4.5. LockInNote also leads on ads (none vs shown). Affirmations & Quote Widget's advantage is ratings volume (322 vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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. Affirmations & Quote Widget sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and LockInNote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LockInNote holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Affirmations & Quote Widget has 322 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Affirmations & Quote Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, LockInNote every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Affirmations & Quote Widget | LockInNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (322 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 322 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 184 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | App Toro | Ryo Yamashita |
Customer experience
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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
LockInNote
- AD Free (iOS, macOS)$0.99
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