Widget Maker vs Photo 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.
Photo Widgets
Personalize your iPhone's home screen by displaying your favorite album photos in customizable widgets. Choose which images appear, control refresh intervals, and arrange layouts to perfectly match your style. Easily import and manage your pictures for a unique look.
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Display album photos
- Control photo refresh interval
- Import pictures from photo library
- No photo limit
- Supports all widget sizes
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Photo Widget is an easy-to-use home screen widget tool for iOS 14, you can custom widget with your album photo! No need to worry about the pictures you dislike or any private photos may see by others, you will decide which image will be displayed in the widget by changing the app setting. As you import the image you would like to display on the home screen as a widget, then you can easily decorate the home screen by using our app! You can also sort the layout of the home screen based on your personal preferences to make it looks perfect! Feel free to display any of your own photos on the home screen! it's time to personalize your iPhone! FEATURES - Support to add more than one photo at a time, no photo limit. - Supports all sizes of widgets. - Customize the time interval of picture refresh - Import your favorite pictures from photos - Change photos quickly - Click on the widget to view the picture - Quickly swipe to preview the added pictures - To provide you with easy to understand tutorials - More features continue to be updated... If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us in the app.
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Verdict
Widget Maker and Photo Widgets both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 60% of Photo Widgets's written reviews are positive against 43% of Widget Maker's. Photo Widgets also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Widget Maker's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (167 vs 20). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Widget Maker against 4.2 for Photo Widgets. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 167 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 60% of Photo Widgets's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Photo Widgets weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Photo Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) — better | 4.2 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | 闹 罗 |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Photo Widgets
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
Photo Widgets
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Photo Widgets
No in-app purchases
Questions
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