Widget Maker vs Custom Widget Maker for iPhone
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.
Custom Widget Maker for iPhone
Easily create personalized widgets for your iPhone's Home Screen. Customize fonts, colors, and backgrounds to make your device unique. Express yourself and enjoy a brighter, more personal phone experience.
- Create custom widgets
- Modify fonts
- Change colors
- Set background pictures
- Easy Home Screen setup
- Personalize phone appearance
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Make your own widgets in a fun and easy way. Personalize your phone and make it look different. Be happy. Be bright. Be you! Widget Maker allows you to set up your own widget and run it on the Home Screen in seconds. Customize each widget. You can freely create widgets in which you can modify fonts, colors, and background pictures. I love hearing your ideas and feedback. Feel free to contact me at mail@aplekhanov.com in case you have any problems or suggestions. The app depends on ratings and reviews to succeed. Your feedback will help others find great creative experiences – and will help me build this app better. I would really appreciate that. More widgets will be added in the future for free. Download and create your own widgets now!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Maker at none against Custom Widget Maker for iPhone's 1. Widget Maker also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (187 vs 8). Custom Widget Maker for iPhone's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.3). On price 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. Custom Widget Maker for iPhone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Widget Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Custom Widget Maker for iPhone holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 187 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Custom Widget Maker for iPhone every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Custom Widget Maker for iPhone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (187 ratings) | 4.8 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | Alexey Plekhanov |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Custom Widget Maker for iPhone
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 Maker for iPhone
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Custom Widget Maker for iPhone
- Widget Maker Pro Customizer 14$0.99
Questions
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