8BitDo Ultimate Software vs WhyNot Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
8BitDo Ultimate Software
Gain complete control over your compatible gamepad. Customize button layouts, fine-tune analog stick and trigger responses, and manage vibration intensity. Create custom macro commands for advanced gameplay.
- Button mapping customization
- Stick and trigger sensitivity adjustment
- Vibration power control
- Macro creation
- Controller compatibility management
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8BitDo Ultimate Software gives you elite control over every piece of your controller: customize button mapping, adjust stick & trigger sensitivity, vibration power control and create macros. Controller Compatibility: * 8BitDo Pro 2 Bluetooth Controller * 8BitDo Pro 2 Wired Controller for Xbox * 8BitDo Ultimate Wired Controller for Xbox * 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller * 8BitDo Micro Gamepad * 8BitDo Ultimate 3-mode Controller for Xbox Please visit support.8bitdo.com for further information and additional support.
WhyNot Widgets
Organize your most-used apps into a single widget for quick access. Customize the appearance and choose from various pre-designed clock and utility widgets to personalize your Home Screen.
- Launch up to nine apps from a single widget
- Customizable widget styles and layouts
- Native app icon display
- Pre-designed analog and digital clock widgets
- Hand-drawn, artistic widget designs
- One-time purchase packs for expanded features
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Nine apps. One widget. Zero hops. 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, no bouncing through another app first. Just tap and go. BUILD IT YOUR WAY • Up to nine apps in the smallest widget size. One app or nine, the layout adapts. • Native style shows the real app icons. Dim, Dark, and Ghost give you three quieter looks. • Fill, or anchor the drawer to a corner for a folder-like cluster. • 100+ apps ready to go, and the picker tells you honestly which ones open instantly. 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. • 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) • 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, two more events and your reminders run in columns, real headlines from a source you choose fill the fold, and tomorrow's weather closes the page. Three newspaper typefaces. • 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. 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 and Golden use your approximate location for Apple Weather and, if you allow it, the calendars you choose. Nothing about you ever reaches us. WhyNot is made by This is E.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WhyNot Widgets at 3.9 against 8BitDo Ultimate Software's 2.4. WhyNot Widgets also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 26%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). 8BitDo Ultimate Software's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (197 vs 7). On price and ads 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. WhyNot Widgets sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. 8BitDo Ultimate Software asks for nothing beyond the download.
WhyNot Widgets holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 8BitDo Ultimate Software has 197 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of 8BitDo Ultimate Software's written reviews are positive against 60% of WhyNot Widgets's.
8BitDo Ultimate Software ships an update every 2 months, WhyNot Widgets every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 8BitDo Ultimate Software | WhyNot Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (197 ratings) | 3.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.4% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 197 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 8BitDo | Iskren Georgiev |
Customer experience
8BitDo Ultimate Software
WhyNot Widgets
Bugs and requests
8BitDo Ultimate Software
Reported bugs
4 issues- App unable to detect connected controllers
- Key mapping not working as expected
- Profiles resetting after app restart
- Firmware update issues bricking controllers
Requested features
5 requests- Support for more controllers (e.g. 8bitdo Zero 2, SN30 Pro+)
- Add ability to remap command/option keys for macOS/iOS
- Improve macro functionality (e.g. adjustable delay, ability to hold keys)
- Add media control key mapping options
- Implement Bluetooth firmware update capability
WhyNot Widgets
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
8BitDo Ultimate Software
No in-app purchases
WhyNot Widgets
- Golden$5.99
- WhyNot Pro$9.99
- Console$9.99
Questions
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