Widget Maker vs Icon Creator
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.
Icon Creator
Easily craft custom icons and logos with a vast library and intuitive editing tools. Personalize every aspect of your design, from colors and fonts to shadows and borders, and layer elements for unique creations.
- Extensive icon library
- Intuitive search
- Customizable design properties
- Layering of elements
- Image and text integration
- Color picking and inversion
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Icon Creator is a comprehensive tool designed to simplify the process of creating icons and logos. With an extensive library of icons, intuitive search functionality, and a range of customization options, users can easily tailor their designs to suit their needs. Modify properties such as alignment, position, rotation, opacity, size, and color, with additional features including icon shadows, backgrounds, and borders. Users can also leverage background color customization, gradients, and images, alongside options for border shapes and styles. Incorporate images from the gallery with customizable fit, filters, and borders, or add text with font selection, weight, style, spacing, and shadow effects. The app supports layering of icons, images, and text, with the ability to adjust layer order and even pick colors from existing images or invert them. Developed by Anvaysoft Programmer- Hrishi Suthar Made with love in India
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Widget Maker at 4.3 against Icon Creator 's 3.0. Widget Maker also leads on ratings volume (167 vs 2). Icon Creator 's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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 Maker holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 167 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 50% of Icon Creator 's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Icon Creator weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Icon Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (167 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 167 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| 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 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | Hrishi Suthar |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Icon Creator
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
Icon Creator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Icon Creator
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Widget Maker free?
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