Comparison

Clear Spaces vs WhyNot Widgets

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

Head to head
About

Clear Spaces

Personalize your device's home and lock screens with transparent widgets and custom elements. Organize information like weather, music, and time, and add quotes or stickers for a unique look. Easily switch between different styles and automate changes with shortcuts.

Highlights
  • Basic Transparent Spaces
  • Widget overlays (Weather, Now Playing, Time/Date)
  • Add quotes and stickers
  • Multiple Clear Spaces Styles
  • Lock Screen Transparent Spaces
  • Automate with Shortcuts
Currently charting
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Clear Spaces provides you with a wealth of customization options allowing you to create Basic Transparent Spaces, with the option to add Widget overlays to display quick information such as Weather, Now Playing and Time / Date. Clear Spaces also allows you to add quotes and stickers to your Home Screen. With the ability to make multiple Clear Spaces Styles, you can add all your different wallpapers into Clear Spaces and change your widgets with a tap, or automate it all with a Shortcut. Clear Spaces also takes customization to the Lock Screen with Transparent Spaces on the Lock Screen to allow you to move your widgets wherever you want. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at support@clearspaces.uk or @clearspaces_ on Twitter.

About

WhyNot Widgets

This app places a customizable app drawer and unique clock widgets on your Home Screen. Launch up to nine apps with a single tap and personalize your device with beautifully designed, hand-drawn widgets.

Highlights
  • Customizable app drawer
  • Single-tap app launching
  • Multiple widget styles
  • Hand-drawn clock widgets
  • Light and Dark mode support
  • One-time purchase packs
Features
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Nine apps. One widget. One tap. WhyNot puts a tiny app drawer on your Home Screen. Pick up to nine apps, choose a style, and every one of them launches with a single tap. No folders to open. Many apps launch straight from the widget, the rest pass through WhyNot for a moment, and the picker tells you which is which. BUILD IT YOUR WAY • Up to nine apps in the smallest widget size. One app or nine, the layout adapts. • Light and Dark show the real app icons, as they look on a light or a dark Home Screen. Mono and Ghost are two quieter looks. • Fill, or anchor the drawer to a corner for a folder-like cluster. • Hold a tile and drag it to rearrange. CLOCKS WITH CHARACTER • Dial: a quiet analog clock inspired by classic industrial design. Small, medium, and a large desk clock with your week laid out underneath. • Flip: a split-flap clock that rolls over on the minute. • Almanac: the month on a card, in Flip's material. Two keys turn the pages, the name brings today back. Free. • Every widget is built for light mode, dark mode, and the Clear look. Pin any widget to always light or always dark, whatever your phone is set to. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT Every widget is drawn by hand, with real shadows, real materials, and one light source. Nothing is a template. Nothing is a screenshot of something else. PACKS (one-time purchases) • Halo: three screens on one large instrument, your wallpaper showing through. Home has the week, what is next and today's steps, Move and Exercise from Health with the goals. Next has the coming events and reminders, with a countdown. Outside has the weather from sunrise to sunset, hour by hour and four days out. The keys switch screens; a slider sets how much wallpaper shows. • Quartz: a desk clock from the nineties, in seven cases from olive to cream. A window for the date, the day or the temperature, numerals in figures or Roman. Tap to open Clock. • Vinyl: your record on a turntable, drawn after the classic Braun deck. The album artwork is the label, the record turns while Apple Music plays, the arm lifts when it stops, and back, play and next work from the widget. Small is the platter, medium is the whole deck. • Tally: a desk calculator from the seventies, on your Home Screen. Every key works. Small for quick sums, large for the whole instrument. Keeps the last result. • Frontpage: your day as a newspaper front page, in the tall widget size that arrived with iOS 27. The next event is the headline, more events and your reminders run in columns, real headlines from a source you choose or your own feed fill the fold, and tomorrow's weather closes the page. Three newspaper typefaces, newsprint grain, pressed type. • Console: your day at a glance. What is next and how long until it, the week ahead, and the sky, one tap apart on the widget. Every block opens Calendar or Weather directly. • Golden: when the light will be good. Golden hour and blue hour for where you are, on one living sky where the sun rises and sets across your Home Screen. The time is lit by the light of the moment. Tap to open the Camera. • WhyNot Pro: Scenes, your drawer set in a place, with the apps that belong there. Glass, the drawer on a frosted panel with your wallpaper showing through. Unlimited drawers, each widget showing a different one. Gradient backgrounds inspired by iPhone finishes or your own two colors. Buy once, keep forever. No subscriptions. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No analytics. Your drawers live on your phone and nowhere else. Console, Golden, Frontpage and Halo use your approximate location for Apple Weather and, if you allow it, your calendars and reminder lists. Halo reads today's Health figures on your phone, only if you allow it. A feed you add is fetched by your phone, not by us. Nothing about you ever reaches us. WhyNot is made by This is E.

Screenshots

Clear Spaces4 screens
WhyNot Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WhyNot Widgets at Free against Clear Spaces's $2.99. WhyNot Widgets also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.3) and review sentiment (64% vs 38%). Clear Spaces's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and chart position (#53 vs unranked). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

WhyNot Widgets is free to download; Clear Spaces costs $2.99 up front. WhyNot Widgets sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Clear Spaces asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WhyNot Widgets holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clear Spaces has 593 ratings behind it against 95, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Clear Spaces's written reviews are positive against 64% of WhyNot Widgets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clear Spaces ships an update every 4 days, WhyNot Widgets daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Clear Spaces versus WhyNot Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClear SpacesWhyNot Widgets
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (593 ratings)4.2 (95 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.7% of reviews64.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings593 — better95
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#53 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEden Software LimitedIskren Georgiev

Customer experience

Clear Spaces

All ratings589 ratings
Positive55.7%
Neutral6.6%
Negative37.7%
Written reviews414 reviews
Positive37.7%
Neutral14.7%
Negative47.6%

WhyNot Widgets

All ratings95 ratings
Positive81.1%
Neutral6.3%
Negative12.6%
Written reviews90 reviews
Positive64.4%
Neutral10.0%
Negative25.6%

Bugs and requests

Clear Spaces

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Incompatibility with iOS 15 and newer devices
  • Widget labels not removable in recent updates
  • Inconsistent widget behavior across different iOS versions
  • Freezing/crashing issues on some devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More widget customization options (fonts, colors, sizes)
  • Support for iPad and larger iPhone models
  • Ability to delete/remove old widget presets
  • Integration with Focus modes and dynamic wallpapers

WhyNot Widgets

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Clear Spaces

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

WhyNot Widgets

One-time9
  • Tally$5.99
  • Vinyl$5.99
  • Quartz$5.99
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  • Golden$5.99
  • Atlas$9.99
  • Frontpage$9.99
  • Halo$9.99
  • WhyNot Pro$9.99
  • Console$9.99

Questions

Is Clear Spaces free?
Clear Spaces costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is WhyNot Widgets free?
WhyNot Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clear Spaces or WhyNot Widgets?
WhyNot Widgets is rated higher. Clear Spaces averages 3.3 out of 5 from 593 ratings, while WhyNot Widgets averages 4.2 from 95 ratings.
Do Clear Spaces or WhyNot Widgets have ads?
Neither Clear Spaces nor WhyNot Widgets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clear Spaces or WhyNot Widgets?
Clear Spaces ships an update every 4 days, and WhyNot Widgets daily. Most recently, Clear Spaces was updated on November 3, 2026 and WhyNot Widgets on November 1, 2026.

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