Widget Maker vs Widget Construction Set
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 Construction Set
Create custom widgets for your device's Home Screen using web-hosted widget.json files. This app allows for extensive customization without needing separate applications for each widget.
- Create custom widgets
- Use web-hosted widget.json
- No additional apps needed
- Home Screen integration
- Extensive customization
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Widget Construction Set lets you add web-hosted widget.json files to your device's Home Screen. Using widget.json, you can create any widget you want, with no additional app. For more information, visit https://wd.gt
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Maker at none against Widget Construction Set's 1. Widget Maker also leads on ratings volume (167 vs 6). Widget Construction Set's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Widget Construction Set sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Widget Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Widget Maker against 4.3 for Widget Construction Set. 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 are what separate them: 43% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 50% of Widget Construction Set's.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Widget Construction Set |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | Bird Cartel LLC |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Widget Construction Set
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Widget Construction Set
- Widget Construction Set Pro$2.99
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