Widget Maker vs Custom Widgets
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.
Custom Widgets
Design your home screen with personalized widgets. Add your own photos, text, or the current date. Customize colors, fonts, and even include an analog clock for a unique look.
- Custom photo widgets
- Text widgets with font customization
- Date display
- Background color options
- Analog clock integration
- Unlimited widget creation
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Personalize your home screen with your photos, text or date. Super easy to use and configure. Currently our widget support: - Set a photo of all sizes. - Unlimited different widgets - Set background color - Add analog clock - Set any text (customize font, size and color) - Show date (customize font, size and color). ----------------------------------- Information about the auto-renewable nature of the subscription - Subscription period is monthly. Every month your subscription renews. - Prices for subscriptions depends on which package you choose and will be seen in payment screen. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. - You can cancel your subscription via this url: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 - Privacy policy: http://privacy.safecloudapp.com - Term of use: http://tos.safecloudapp.com - Subscription Information : http://subscription.safecloudapp.com -----------------------------------
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Maker at none against Custom Widgets's 1. Custom Widgets's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (61% vs 43%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Custom Widgets sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Widget Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Custom Widgets holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 167 and 319 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 61% of Custom Widgets's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Custom Widgets weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Custom Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) | 4.5 (319 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 61.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 | 319 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | Shesek LLC |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Custom Widgets
Bugs and requests
Widget Maker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Custom Widgets
Reported bugs
6 issues- 🐛 Widget image is framed with an ugly black border
- 🐛 Cannot delete widgets
- 🐛 Unable to change photo
- 🐛 Only one widget can be added
- 🐛 Only the first photo is used for subsequent widgets
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- 🐛 No settings for widgets
Requested features
4 requests- Add a delete button for widgets
- Increase the number of available widgets
- Allow changing the text under the widget
- Provide more photos to add
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Custom Widgets
- Premium Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month
Questions
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