Widget Maker vs Space Widget
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.
Space Widget
Get a new, stunning space image on your homescreen daily. Launch the app to access detailed explanations from astronomers and customize settings. Request new features or report bugs directly through the app.
- Daily space images on homescreen
- Astronomer explanations
- Customizable settings
- In-app feature requests
- Bug reporting
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Space Widget brings a different space image each day from our fascinating universe straight to your homescreen. For an explaination of the photograph written by a professional astronomer and more settings, launch the Space Widget app. For feature requests and support, please get in touch using the in-app "Request a Feature" or "Report a bug" in the settings of the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Widget Maker at Free against Space Widget's $0.99. Widget Maker also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 0%) and rating (4.3 vs 2.5). Space Widget's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Widget Maker is free to download; Space Widget costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Widget Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 167 ratings behind it against 2, 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 0% of Space Widget's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Space Widget every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Space Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | Taphive GmbH |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Space Widget
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Space Widget
No in-app purchases
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