Widget Maker vs Widget Box & shortcuts
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.
Widget Box & shortcuts
Personalize your device's home screen with a vast array of customizable widgets. Create unique designs with your own images, fonts, and color schemes, or select from pre-made templates. Add widgets for time, date, battery, weather, quotes, and more.
- Customizable widget designs
- Pre-made widget templates
- Add pictures to widgets
- Edit widget fonts and colors
- Countdown, date, battery widgets
- Weather and quote widgets
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Color Widgets Box is the only app you need for customizing your home screen! Choose from stunning premade widget designs, or better yet, make your own. Browse through endless options like countdowns, date and battery, weather, quotes, and more. Color Widgets is so easy to use that your favorite widgets can be up and running in seconds. WIDGETS Customize each widget fully. Add pictures to your widgets, edit their font, create your own color-scheme, and so much more! Frequent updates constantly add new widgets you’d love. With Color Widgets, there is no limit to customizing your home screen! Here’s a glimpse of our widgets: ● Time, Date & Battery ● Calendar
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Widget Box & shortcuts at 100% against Widget Maker's 43%. Widget Box & shortcuts also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Widget Maker's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 Box & shortcuts holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 167 and 94 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 100% of Widget Box & shortcuts's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Widget Box & shortcuts every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Widget Box & shortcuts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) | 4.6 (94 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 94 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | AEGIS SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Widget Box & shortcuts
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
Widget Box & shortcuts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Widget Box & shortcuts
No in-app purchases
Questions
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