Create Widgets for Home Screen vs Live Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Create Widgets for Home Screen
Customize your device's home screen with interactive widgets. Choose from a variety of free and premium designs, or create your own unique widgets to express your style. Easily add and manage widgets directly from your home screen.
- Interactive home screen widgets
- Free and premium widget designs
- Widget creation toolset
- Add and manage widgets easily
- Favorite widget selection
- Customizable clock, photo, and date widgets
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Gain access to fully interactive widgets that you can add to your device's screen! There are many designs to choose from, and a set of features to help you create your own widgets. Express yourself! Privacy Policy: https://digitalby-legal-static.digitalby.workers.dev/privacy Terms of Service: https://digitalby-legal-static.digitalby.workers.dev/terms
Live Widgets
Personalize your home screen with custom widgets. Add photos to clock and calendar widgets, and create date counters. Includes premium tools that launch when a widget is tapped.
- Photo widgets
- Clock widgets
- Calendar widgets
- Custom date counters
- Premium launchable tools
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Live Widgets is advanced toolbox app to customize your Home Screen, like never before. No you can add favorite photos to clock and calendar widgets. Enable cool custom date counters. The app itself also includes a premium tools: these tools can launch based on the active widget tapped. Please send feedback on what you would love to see on your widget, we will do it for you. Widgets work on all iOS/iPadOS devices with the only requirement being that it is running iOS 14
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Create Widgets for Home Screen at 4.4 against Live Widgets's 2.0. Create Widgets for Home Screen also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 33%) and ratings volume (145 vs 25). Live Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Create Widgets for Home Screen sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Live Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.
Create Widgets for Home Screen holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Create Widgets for Home Screen has 145 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Create Widgets for Home Screen's written reviews are positive against 33% of Live Widgets's.
Create Widgets for Home Screen ships an update monthly, Live Widgets weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Create Widgets for Home Screen | Live Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (145 ratings) — better | 2.0 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 145 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 225 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yury Vashchylau | byss mobile |
Customer experience
Create Widgets for Home Screen
Live Widgets
In-app purchases
Create Widgets for Home Screen
- Premium Widgets3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Widgets for Home Screen Unlock$2.997 Days
- Premium Widgets — Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
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- Premium Widgets — Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Widgets — Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Widgets — Monthly$8.991 Month
- Premium Widgets — Annual3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Premium Widgets — Annual3 Days trial$32.991 Year
- LIFETIME PREMIUM ACCESS$4.99
- LIFETIME PREMIUM ACCESS$19.99
Live Widgets
No in-app purchases
Questions
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