Widget Maker vs Custom Widget Creator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Maker
Design personalized widgets for your device's home screen using your own photos and calendar views. Customize text, fonts, colors, and layouts to make your device unique. Easily add and manage widgets with intuitive controls.
- Photo widgets with multiple sizes
- Calendar view with photo integration
- Extensive text customization (fonts, colors, shadows)
- Adjustable text size and alignment
- Custom text input
- Auto-refresh for photo rotation
- Easy widget placement and access
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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, Large, and the new Extra Large size 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 and Extra Large sizes, the calendar and your photo are displayed together. ● Fully Customizable - Date 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 Tap a widget anytime to jump straight to its settings. The Extra Large size requires iOS 27 or later. Make your Home Screen truly yours.
Custom Widget Creator
Design personalized widgets for your device's home screen. Add elements like the time, date, custom text, images, and RSS feeds. Choose from a library of pre-built widgets or customize every aspect of your own.
- Create custom widgets
- Add time and date
- Include RSS feeds
- Use custom text and images
- Customize fonts and colors
- Add battery indicator
- Pre-built widget collection
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It lets you create custom widgets by adding time, date, RSS feeds, custom text, custom images and more. They can be customised as you like! The app also includes a free prebuilt widgets collection which you can add to your widgets library. You can customise: - Date; - Time; - Background Color; - Background Image; - Font size, many font families and colors; - Border; - Battery indicator, position, orientation and color; - Custom text; - RSS feed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Widget Maker at 4.3 against Custom Widget Creator's 3.0. Widget Maker also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (187 vs 3). Custom Widget Creator's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, 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
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 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 187 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 25% of Custom Widget Creator's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Custom Widget Creator monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Custom Widget Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (187 ratings) — better | 3.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.9% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | GENOVA Softworks |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Custom Widget Creator
Bugs and requests
Widget Maker
Reported bugs
9 issues- Widgets disappear after deleting photo
- Widgets don't show up after update
- Black borders around pictures
- Widget picture is spread out
- Cannot add new widgets
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- Cannot see picture, yellow overlay
- Some photos don't work
- App teleports off when uploading
- PNG files not displayed
Requested features
5 requests- More font options
- English instructions
- Ability to add multiple widgets
- Fix PNG file support
- More font options
Custom Widget Creator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Custom Widget Creator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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