Create Widgets for Home Screen vs Color Widgets Instant
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
Color Widgets Instant
Personalize your device's home screen with a vast collection of pre-designed widgets for weather, time, calendar, photos, and more. Easily apply existing designs or create your own unique widgets with extensive customization options for fonts, colors, and backgrounds.
- Pre-made widget designs
- Custom widget creation
- Font customization
- Theme and color selection
- Photo widgets
- Multiple widget types
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Color Widgets Instant contains a large set of good pre-made designs for weather, forecast, count-down, time, date, battery, calendar, photo collection, quotes and more. You can immediately use the design in second or better yet, make your own. This app provides powerful customization tools to make widgets on your Home Screen unique: - Design your favorite widget with many widget types available - Customize Font with hundreds amazing fonts - Freely re-select theme color and background color - Put your photo to widget Color Widgets Instant regularly update new pre-made widgets, enriching your choices day by day. With Color Widgets Instant, there is no limit to customize your home screen Subscription plans: • 3 days free trial then monthly subscription • Or buy lifetime one time and use forever • Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. • You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase. • Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of service: https://sites.google.com/view/green-app/term-of-use Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/green-app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Color Widgets Instant at none against Create Widgets for Home Screen's shown. Color Widgets Instant also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (81% vs 71%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Create Widgets for Home Screen sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Color Widgets Instant sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Color Widgets Instant holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 145 and 250 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Create Widgets for Home Screen's written reviews are positive against 81% of Color Widgets Instant's.
Create Widgets for Home Screen ships an update monthly, Color Widgets Instant every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Create Widgets for Home Screen | Color Widgets Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (145 ratings) | 4.6 (250 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 80.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 145 | 250 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 225 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yury Vashchylau | Bui Van Phuoc |
Customer experience
Create Widgets for Home Screen
Color Widgets Instant
Bugs and requests
Create Widgets for Home Screen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Color Widgets Instant
Reported bugs
8 issues- App stops working after reinstallation
- Widget temperature and data not displaying
- Plus button not appearing in jiggle mode on iPad
- Only one widget showing instead of multiple created
- Widgets turning black after updates
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- Pedometer widget keeps resetting
- Image cropping showing unwanted online content
- White borders appearing on uploaded images
Requested features
8 requests- More widget design schemes and choices
- Apple Watch app compatibility
- NFL and sports-themed widget options
- Easier photo album selection interface
- Image resizing and adjustment within widget editor
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- Better image cropping control
- Multiple widgets display on home screen
- Improved widget preview functionality
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
Color Widgets Instant
- Monthly Premium Version3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Lifetime Premium Version$6.99
Questions
Is Create Widgets for Home Screen free?
Is Color Widgets Instant free?
Which has better reviews, Create Widgets for Home Screen or Color Widgets Instant?
Do Create Widgets for Home Screen or Color Widgets Instant have ads?
Which is updated more often, Create Widgets for Home Screen or Color Widgets Instant?
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