Widget Maker vs WidgetDaily
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Maker
Design and customize your own widgets for your device's home screen. Personalize them with your favorite pictures as backgrounds and add custom text to make them uniquely yours.
- Create custom widgets
- Use favorite pictures for background
- Place widgets on home screen
- Add custom text
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Widget Maker lets you create beautiful, personalized widgets for your Home Screen. ● Photo Widgets Turn your favorite photos into widgets. Choose from Small, Medium, and Large sizes to fit your Home Screen perfectly. Set auto-refresh to rotate photos at your preferred interval. ● Calendar Widget View the current month at a glance. In Medium size, the calendar and your photo are displayed side by side. ● Fully Customizable - Date & time overlays: month, day, weekday, and more - 20+ fonts including serif, rounded, and handwritten styles - 16 color options for text - Text shadow with customizable color - Adjustable text size and alignment - Custom text input ● Easy to Use 1. Add your photos 2. Customize text, font, color, and layout 3. Place the widget on your Home Screen Make your Home Screen truly yours.
WidgetDaily
Personalize your iPhone and iPad with hundreds of pre-designed widgets or create your own unique themes. Easily customize colors, sizes, and backgrounds to match your style. Add your creations to your home screen in seconds.
- Hundreds of widget designs and themes
- Create custom widget designs
- Customize background colors and size
- Add photos to widgets
- Easy to download and use
- Continuous updates and improvements
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Turn your iPhone and iPad into a useful, personal dashboard with WidgetDaily. Pick a template, customize colors, fonts, and backgrounds, then see what matters right on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Everything you need at a glance: • Customizable widget templates and clocks using your favorite colors and photos. • Current weather plus daily and hourly forecasts. • Steps and activity from Apple Health, with your permission. • Locally calculated prayer times, Hijri date, daily adhkar, tasbih, and Islamic occasions. • Automatic location or city selection for prayer times, with local prayer notifications. • Daily habits, streak tracking, and water logging. • Personal countdowns with Live Activities and Dynamic Island. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Control Center controls on iOS 18. • Easy template sharing with QR codes. Make it yours Choose a background, color, font, and size. Add a photo from your library, save your design, and place it on your screen in the size that works best for you. Built with privacy in mind No account is required. Core data stays stored locally on your device, and location, health, and notification permissions are requested only when you use related features. Requires iOS 17 or later. Control Center controls require iOS 18 or later. Some features may require WidgetDaily Pro; in-app purchase options are available. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://widgetdaily.com/en/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: WidgetDaily at 80% against Widget Maker's 43%. WidgetDaily also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days). Widget Maker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (167 vs 10). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. WidgetDaily sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Widget Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
WidgetDaily holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 167 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 80% of WidgetDaily's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, WidgetDaily every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | WidgetDaily |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | Yahya Alzahrani |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
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In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
WidgetDaily
- Remove Ads$0.99
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