Widget Maker vs Simple Text Widget
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.
Simple Text Widget
Easily add customizable notes, goals, or to-do lists to your Lock Screen or Home Screen. Keep important information visible at a glance with quick updates and personalized reminders.
- Customizable widgets
- Lock Screen display
- Home Screen display
- Quick updates
- Personalized reminders
- To-do lists
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Never Forget What Matters! Easily add important notes, goals, or to-do lists to your Lock Screen or Home Screen with customizable widgets. Whether it’s a daily reminder, a motivational quote, or a task list, keep it right where you’ll see it! Quick & Easy – Just tap the widget to update instantly. Stay Organized – Keep important info always visible. Personalize Your Screen – Make your reminders stand out. Download now and make your Lock Screen & Home Screen work for you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Simple Text Widget at none against Widget Maker's shown. Simple Text Widget also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Widget Maker's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Simple Text Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 187 and 731 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Widget Maker's written reviews are positive against 54% of Simple Text Widget's.
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Simple Text Widget every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Maker | Simple Text Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (187 ratings) | 4.5 (731 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.3% of reviews | 53.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 187 | 731 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Akeome Studio | CeylonLabs Technologies Pvt Ltd |
Customer experience
Widget Maker
Simple Text Widget
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
Simple Text Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
Simple Text Widget
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Widget Maker free?
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