Comparison

OneWidget vs Lively Widget

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

Head to head
About

OneWidget

Personalize your device's home screen with a wide variety of customizable widgets and themes. Track health data, manage tasks, and display system information with flexible widget options.

Highlights
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Live widgets
  • Transparent widgets
  • Theme and icon customization
  • Health data tracking (Steps, Distance, Energy)
  • Flexible widget grouping and sizing
Features
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Make every screen feel more like yours. Keep useful information close with widgets, then bring your Home Screen together with wallpapers, themes, and icons. OneWidget helps you personalize your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Dynamic Island in one place. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Mix clocks, calendars, countdowns, health stats, football fixtures, weather, photos, text, and app launchers. Choose a size, layout, font, color, and background. Create a transparent look, pick from a range of clock faces, and keep favorite apps within reach. LOCK SCREEN & DYNAMIC ISLAND Decorate your Lock Screen with widget combinations, animated artwork, icons, and text. On supported devices, explore pet, holiday, relaxation, health, launcher, and football activities. Customize the content and appearance of the Dynamic Island Top Bar in its expanded and compact views to make it your own. DUO MOCKUP Place photos or videos on both screens of a foldable device mockup. Choose the device finish and background, build fold animations with keyframes, and export a video of your design. THEMES & WALLPAPERS Explore curated wallpapers and Home Screen themes. Pair them with app icons and widgets for a consistent look. PERMISSIONS & SUBSCRIPTIONS OneWidget asks for permission when features need access to Health, calendars, or reminders. You can manage access in system settings. Some content requires OneWidget Pro. In the United States, the current subscription prices are $0.99 per month or $5.99 per year; prices elsewhere and the final charge are shown at checkout. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account subscription settings. Feature availability varies by device and system version. Share feedback at hi@onenice.tech. Privacy Policy: http://docs.onenice.tech/#/OneWidget/privacy Terms of Use: http://docs.onenice.tech/#/OneWidget/terms

About

Lively Widget

Create animated and highly customizable widgets for your iPhone's home and lock screens. Display health data, photos, quotes, pixel art, and more with a wide range of design options and presets.

Highlights
  • Animated widget creation
  • Health and activity data display
  • Photo and quote widgets
  • Pixel art creation
  • GIF sticker integration
  • StandBy mode compatibility
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Try out our latest Activity and Health widget with the following health features: 1. Energy Burned, Exercise Time, and Stand Hours. 2. Step Count and Walking Distance. 3. Heart Rate, Resting Heart Rate, Walking Heart Rate Average, and Heart Rate Variability. 4. Blood Oxygen and Respiratory Rate. 5. Environmental Sound Level and Headphone Audio Levels. 6. Double Support Time, Walking Asymmetry, Walking Speed, Walking Step Length, and Stair Speed. 7. Blood Pressure. 8. Blood Glucose. 9. All health data can be displayed in chart view and customized for a specific date range, such as 24 hours or 7 days. Animate your Widgets! Lively Widget allows you to create your own animated iOS widgets for your iPhone lock screen and home screen, enhancing your iPhone screen's overall aesthetics and liveliness. You can create nice-looking activity & health widgets, clock widgets, battery widgets, photo widgets, quote widgets, GIF sticker widgets, or even pixel art widgets! Most of our widgets are compatible with StandBy mode in the newly released iOS 17. Lively Widget enables you to upload images from your album, add text, apply borders, change background and adjust various aspects such as size, rotation, and position of your images. All widgets within Lively Widget are highly customizable and can be designed as frame-by-frame animated widgets. You can create activity widgets or health widgets to keep track of your daily fitness routine and body measurements, such as heart rate, step count, energy burned, blood pressure, and blood glucose level. Charts can be used in the widgets to show data of the last 7 days or last 24 hours. You can also create your own pixel art from scratch using an empty canvas, convert your photos into pixel art, or simply select a pixel art widget from our collection. Lively Widgets offers a wide collection of moving GIF stickers & widget presets for you to make custom lock screen widgets and home screen widgets, with cute & cool categories like emojis, animals, sports, self-care, pixel art, nature, love, quotes, etc. The presets collection will only grow bigger over time! Examples: You can select a bunch of photos of your loved ones and add them to a home screen photo widget to put a smile on you during the day. You can create your own motivational quote widgets on your home screen to inspire yourself and keep you going. You can add an animated emoji widget on your lock screen to give yourself a smile whenever you look at your iPhone. Lively Widget is available for free download. The trial version offers limited access to stickers and features. It provides a good opportunity to explore and familiarize yourself with the app. To unlock all features and animated widgets & stickers, you can subscribe to Lively Widget Pro on a monthly, yearly, or lifetime basis. Start personalizing your lock screen or home screen with animated widgets by getting it now! If you like Lively Widget, please rate us on the App Store! If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at hello@livelywidget.com. Term of Services & End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.livelywidget.com/terms-of-use

Screenshots

OneWidget4 screens
Lively Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OneWidget at 4.5 against Lively Widget's 3.9. OneWidget also leads on ratings volume (222 vs 40). Lively Widget's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and review sentiment (78% vs 54%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. OneWidget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Lively Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OneWidget holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OneWidget has 222 ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of OneWidget's written reviews are positive against 78% of Lively Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OneWidget ships an update every 3 weeks, Lively Widget monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
OneWidget versus Lively Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOneWidgetLively Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (222 ratings) — better3.9 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews53.7% of reviews78.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings222 — better40
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size409 MB1.2 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChengdu Reinvent Technology Co., Ltd.Square Digital Limited

Customer experience

OneWidget

All ratings222 ratings
Positive86.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive53.7%
Neutral11.0%
Negative35.4%

Lively Widget

All ratings37 ratings
Positive67.6%
Neutral8.1%
Negative24.3%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative17.4%

Bugs and requests

OneWidget

Reported bugs

25 issues
  • Widgets show as white boxes
  • Widget options are unresponsive
  • App crashes upon saving widgets
  • App won't open after update
  • Pet feature is glitched and stuck
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  • Lock screen widgets not updating correctly
  • Transparency settings misaligned
  • App crashes when setting up specific shapes/positions
  • Calendar widget crashes
  • Google Maps not launching from lock screen
  • Animated wallpapers not moving
  • GIF widgets not moving
  • Step count widget inaccurate
  • Walking steps/distance not updated
  • Medium home screen widget not loading
  • Information not saved
  • Image widgets reset after app restart
  • Lock screen pet notifications cannot be closed
  • App switcher in dynamic island not removable
  • Widgets not appearing in customize add widgets list
  • Clock and calendar incorrect
  • Steps widget inaccurate
  • Time display errors (24-hour format issues)
  • Daylight saving time integration issues
  • App freezes during interaction

Requested features

19 requests
  • Add 12-hour time setting
  • Add weather widgets
  • Add animated icon GIFs
  • More customization options
  • Battery widget
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  • More pet varieties and interactions
  • Option to hide app switcher in dynamic island
  • Improve clarity of photo widgets
  • Add naming, social, and interaction features for pets
  • More dynamic and realistic pet animations
  • Update text widgets with automatic content
  • Add more content including wallpapers
  • Add blank title feature
  • Pull water and weight info from health app
  • More styles for dynamic island icons
  • Add app support on developer website
  • Improve pet feature animations and expressions
  • More lock screen widget styles
  • More widget options

Lively Widget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

OneWidget

Subscriptions2
  • Pro(Monthly)$0.991 Month
  • Pro (Yearly)$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro (Lifetime)$14.99
3 purchases

Lively Widget

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Quarterly Subscription$4.993 Months
  • Yearly Subscription$9.991 Year

Questions

Is OneWidget free?
OneWidget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lively Widget free?
Lively Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, OneWidget or Lively Widget?
OneWidget is rated higher. OneWidget averages 4.5 out of 5 from 222 ratings, while Lively Widget averages 3.9 from 40 ratings.
Do OneWidget or Lively Widget have ads?
Neither OneWidget nor Lively Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OneWidget or Lively Widget?
OneWidget ships an update every 3 weeks, and Lively Widget monthly. Most recently, OneWidget was updated on November 3, 2026 and Lively Widget on October 24, 2026.

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