Smart HT vs Any Text · Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart HT
Control your home appliances remotely from anywhere. Manage multiple devices simultaneously, set timers for automated functions, and easily share access with family members. The app offers a simple and quick connection process to your smart devices.
- Remote appliance control
- Simultaneous device management
- Customizable timers
- Family device sharing
- Easy device connection
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HellermannTyton Smart, smart life, 1. Remote control: control home appliances from anywhere 2. Simultaneously control: control multiple devices with one App 3. Timer: set timer to perform multiple functions 4. Device sharing: One tap to share devices among family members 5. Easy connection: easily and quickly connect App to devices
Any Text · Widgets
Display any text on your Lock or Home Screen to keep important notes, goals, or tasks visible. Customize text with Markdown and utilize 20 different widgets. Integrates with Shortcuts for powerful automations and syncs across devices via iCloud.
- Customizable text widgets
- Lock Screen and Home Screen support
- Markdown styling (bold, italic, strikethrough)
- Live Activity and StandBy support
- iCloud device syncing
- Shortcuts app integration
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Put any kind of text on your Lock Screen or Home Screen so you won't miss it. It could be an important note, your goal, a list of tasks, etc. It also supports Live Activity and StandBy. The app includes 20 widgets that lets you put different text on different Lock Screen configurations or Home Screen. You can style parts of the text bold, italic, or strikethrough using Markdown. Syncs seamlessly across your devices with iCloud. Simply tap the widget to open the app to edit the text. ■ Shortcuts The app is scriptable through the Shortcuts app, enabling a lot of powerful use-cases. For example, you could use an automation to change the text at a certain point in the day or at certain places. The only limit is your creativity. ■ Support You can contact me through the feedback button in the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Smart HT at Free against Any Text · Widgets's $4.00. Smart HT also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). Any Text · Widgets's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 23 months). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Smart HT is free to download; Any Text · Widgets costs $4.00 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smart HT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Any Text · Widgets has 450 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Smart HT's written reviews are positive against 82% of Any Text · Widgets's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Smart HT ships an update every 23 months, Any Text · Widgets every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 10, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart HT | Any Text · Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.00 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (450 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 81.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 450 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #80 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 毅平 柯 | Sindre Sorhus |
Customer experience
Smart HT
Any Text · Widgets
Bugs and requests
Smart HT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Any Text · Widgets
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widget not showing on Lock Screen
- Text not updating in a timely manner
- Force show when locked doesn't work
Requested features
6 requests- Allow alternating/rotating text
- Add custom font support
- Provide full-width widget options
- Add custom widget background colors
- Enable editing widgets directly
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- Add Apple Watch widget support
In-app purchases
Smart HT
No in-app purchases
Any Text · Widgets
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Smart HT free?
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