Widget Maker vs Christmas 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.
Christmas Widgets
Decorate your device's home screen with a variety of festive designs to create a perfect holiday atmosphere. Bring the spirit of Christmas and the New Year directly to your device.
- Thousands of beautiful widgets
- Home screen decoration
- Christmas atmosphere creation
- New Year themes
- Festive designs
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"We wish you a Merry Christmas! We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!" Another Christmas season is coming, season of love, season of hope. A time of mystery, expectations, who knows what might happen. And Christmas time is here, in your Home Screen with Christmas Widgets. With thousands of beautiful widgets, Christmas Widgets will help you decorate your Home Screen to create the perfect Christmas atmosphere for your next holiday. "Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see." - The Polar Express
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Widget Maker at 4.3 against Christmas Widgets's 3.3. Widget Maker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (43% vs 20%). Christmas Widgets's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Christmas Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Widget Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Widget Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 167 ratings behind it against 33, 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 20% of Christmas Widgets's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Christmas Widgets every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Christmas Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) — better | 3.3 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 327 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | Nguyen Khai |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Christmas Widgets
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Christmas Widgets
- Christmas Widgets PRO$1.99
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