Widget Maker vs Live Widgets for iPad
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.
Live Widgets for iPad
Enhance your iPad and iPhone home screens with a vast collection of customizable widgets. Choose from pre-built themes or use the intuitive builder to design your own unique look with custom colors, fonts, backgrounds, and data displays. Optionally integrate with Apple Health to show activity data.
- Premium home screen widgets
- Clock, calendar, and weather data
- Pre-built themes
- Fully customizable widgets
- Widget builder for custom designs
- Optional Apple Health integration
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Personalize your iPad & iPhone home screens with premium widgets! We’re providing you with a huge library of attractive widgets with clocks, calendars and weather data. Pre-built themes offer various different combinations of colors, fonts, backgrounds, and more. Each widget is fully customizable, allowing you to create the perfect custom look! Widgets in our app are not only customizable in order to create any look required. What sets our app apart from the rest, is widget builder with which you can build your own widget looks choosing: - tint colors, - fonts, - background, - artwork, - data shown. Widget builder is truly standing out from the competition in terms of simplicity and convenience. Our app optionally integrates with Apple Health. This data is used to display your step and activity if you select one of those widget types.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Widget Maker at 4.3 against Live Widgets for iPad's 2.3. Widget Maker also leads on ratings volume (167 vs 6) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 days). Live Widgets for iPad'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 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 167 ratings behind it against 6, 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 33% of Live Widgets for iPad's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Live Widgets for iPad every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Live Widgets for iPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) — better | 2.3 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 11 days |
| 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 | 21 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | byss mobile |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Live Widgets for iPad
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Live Widgets for iPad
No in-app purchases
Questions
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