Comparison

Widget Maker vs Clover Painting

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Create custom widgets
  • Use favorite pictures for background
  • Place widgets on home screen
  • Add custom text
Features
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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.

About

Clover Painting

Features
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Clover Painting is a mobile drawing app built for iPhone and iPad. It is designed for illustration, sketching, comic drafts, doodles, idea capture, and everyday digital art. The app uses a bright Fluent-style interface with clear controls, colorful buttons, and rich icons, so you can move from idea to canvas quickly. Key Features: Flexible Canvas Presets Start with common canvas sizes or create a custom canvas for sketches, illustrations, concepts, and high-resolution drafts. Full-Screen Drawing Focus on your artwork with an immersive canvas experience that reduces distractions while drawing. Brushes and Colors Choose from multiple brush presets, adjust brush parameters, and pick colors for different drawing styles. Resource and Preset Management Manage brush resources, custom presets, and reusable creative settings to keep your workflow organized. Artwork Export Use common export format options to save, share, or continue working with your artwork. iCloud Drafts Users signed in with Apple can use iCloud draft features to back up and restore artwork. Guest mode is available for quick local drawing. Bilingual Interface Switch between Chinese and English to match your preferred language. Appearance Modes Choose System, Light, or Dark mode for a comfortable drawing experience in different environments. Great For: Illustrators Comic and storyboard creators iPad drawing users Creative note takers Design and art learners Anyone who wants a colorful mobile sketchbook Clover Painting helps make digital drawing lighter, faster, and more enjoyable. Open a canvas, choose a brush, and start creating.

Screenshots

Widget Maker3 screens
Clover Painting4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Maker at none against Clover Painting's 1. Widget Maker also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Clover Painting's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clover Painting sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Widget Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, Clover Painting monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Widget Maker versus Clover Painting: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget MakerClover Painting
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (187 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews43.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings187 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkeome Studio献慧 陈

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
Show 4 more
  • 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

Clover Painting

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Widget Maker

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Clover Painting

One-time1
  • Permanent unlock$0.99

Questions

Is Widget Maker free?
Widget Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clover Painting free?
Clover Painting is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Widget Maker or Clover Painting have ads?
Widget Maker shows ads; Clover Painting does not.
Which is updated more often, Widget Maker or Clover Painting?
Widget Maker ships an update every 4 days, and Clover Painting monthly. Most recently, Widget Maker was updated on November 3, 2026 and Clover Painting on November 5, 2026.

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