Widget Maker vs Live 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.
Live Widgets
Personalize your home screen with custom widgets. Add photos to clock and calendar widgets, and create date counters. Includes premium tools that launch when a widget is tapped.
- Photo widgets
- Clock widgets
- Calendar widgets
- Custom date counters
- Premium launchable tools
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Live Widgets is advanced toolbox app to customize your Home Screen, like never before. No you can add favorite photos to clock and calendar widgets. Enable cool custom date counters. The app itself also includes a premium tools: these tools can launch based on the active widget tapped. Please send feedback on what you would love to see on your widget, we will do it for you. Widgets work on all iOS/iPadOS devices with the only requirement being that it is running iOS 14
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Widget Maker at 4.3 against Live Widgets's 2.0. Widget Maker also leads on ratings volume (167 vs 25) and review sentiment (43% vs 33%). Live Widgets's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Widget Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 167 ratings behind it against 25, 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 33% of Live Widgets's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Live Widgets weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Live Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) — better | 2.0 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | byss mobile |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Live Widgets
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Live Widgets
No in-app purchases
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