Widget Maker vs -•- (Dash Dot Dash)
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.
-•- (Dash Dot Dash)
Create custom widgets for your home screen featuring photos and text. Share these widgets with friends, allowing them to see your pictures and notes directly on their devices. Data is securely stored and shared via iCloud.
- Custom widget creation
- Add photos and text
- Share widgets with friends
- iCloud data synchronization
- Display current date
- Ad-free experience with subscription
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A very easy to use widget creator. Put a photo and your text (or current date) on a widget. Then put the widget on your home screen. Your friends can put widgets on their home screens and you can send pictures (e.g. selfies) to their screens. Widget examples: • Monthly calendar on your holiday photo. • Yellow sticky note with a shopping list. • A photo with your comment. • Put a photo on your friend's screen. The data is kept in your iCloud and is shared to your friend's iCloud, so we have no access to your pictures. This app contains optional auto-renewing subscriptions that are offered as in-app purchases. Subscriptions allow you to use the app without advertisements, and to use more features. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period; your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: http://www.efrac.com/dashdotdashpriv.html Terms of Use: http://www.efrac.com/dashdotdashterms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Maker at none against -•- (Dash Dot Dash)'s 1. -•- (Dash Dot Dash)'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (65% vs 43%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. -•- (Dash Dot Dash) sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Widget Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Widget Maker against 4.2 for -•- (Dash Dot Dash). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 167 and 316 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 65% of -•- (Dash Dot Dash)'s.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, -•- (Dash Dot Dash) every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | -•- (Dash Dot Dash) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) — better | 4.2 (316 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 65.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 | 316 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | EFRAC |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
-•- (Dash Dot Dash)
Bugs and requests
Widget Maker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
-•- (Dash Dot Dash)
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widgets not showing up
- Widgets resetting after device restart
- Crashes and freezes
Requested features
4 requests- Add more widget types (clock, weather, reminders, etc.)
- Allow more than 10 widgets in free version
- Improve widget positioning and sizing controls
- Add dark mode support
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
-•- (Dash Dot Dash)
- Upgraded Version1 Month trial$4.991 Month
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