WidgetDaily vs Widget Toolbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WidgetDaily
Personalize your iPhone and iPad with hundreds of pre-designed widgets or create your own unique themes. Easily customize colors, sizes, and backgrounds to match your style. Add your creations to your home screen in seconds.
- Hundreds of widget designs and themes
- Create custom widget designs
- Customize background colors and size
- Add photos to widgets
- Easy to download and use
- Continuous updates and improvements
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Turn your iPhone and iPad into a useful, personal dashboard with WidgetDaily. Pick a template, customize colors, fonts, and backgrounds, then see what matters right on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Everything you need at a glance: • Customizable widget templates and clocks using your favorite colors and photos. • Current weather plus daily and hourly forecasts. • Steps and activity from Apple Health, with your permission. • Locally calculated prayer times, Hijri date, daily adhkar, tasbih, and Islamic occasions. • Automatic location or city selection for prayer times, with local prayer notifications. • Daily habits, streak tracking, and water logging. • Personal countdowns with Live Activities and Dynamic Island. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Control Center controls on iOS 18. • Easy template sharing with QR codes. Make it yours Choose a background, color, font, and size. Add a photo from your library, save your design, and place it on your screen in the size that works best for you. Built with privacy in mind No account is required. Core data stays stored locally on your device, and location, health, and notification permissions are requested only when you use related features. Requires iOS 17 or later. Control Center controls require iOS 18 or later. Some features may require WidgetDaily Pro; in-app purchase options are available. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://widgetdaily.com/en/privacy/
Widget Toolbox
Personalize your device's home screen with a vast collection of customizable widgets. Add text, photos, calendars, weather, step counts, and more to make your interface both beautiful and functional. Choose from pre-designed options or create your own unique layouts.
- Customizable widgets
- Pre-designed widget collection
- Text, photo, calendar widgets
- Weather and step count widgets
- Health app integration for step tracking
- Color, font, and border customization
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* Special: A lot of widgets for Christmas and new year 2021. Are you excited when widgets came on your home screen? This Widget Toolbox application will help you to create customized widgets, so you can decorate your home screen. You will make your home screen more useful, more beautiful, color widget. If you don't want to spend time to create widget, you can use widgets created by our designer in Widget Collection tab. Widget types: - Text. - Sticky note: Add sticky note to your home screen. - Date and time: many special clock, watch faces. - Calendar. - Today events. - Today reminders. - Photo widget. - Battery remaining. - Weather. - Step count: Show number of steps you have walked today. And the bar or ring to track your steps is how many percent of 10,000 steps. - Hundreds of widgets in Widget collection. You can customize these widgets with colors, fonts, and border. Let's get started to personalize your home screen. Step count feature is integrated with Health app, read steps data from Health app, then show it to your widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WidgetDaily at 4.6 against Widget Toolbox's 4.2. WidgetDaily also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). Widget Toolbox's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 10) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. WidgetDaily sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Widget Toolbox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WidgetDaily holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 35 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of WidgetDaily's written reviews are positive against 88% of Widget Toolbox's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
WidgetDaily ships an update every 2 days, Widget Toolbox every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WidgetDaily | Widget Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better | 4.2 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yahya Alzahrani | Nguyen Cong Huy |
Customer experience
WidgetDaily
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In-app purchases
WidgetDaily
- Remove Ads$0.99
Widget Toolbox
- Pro version$0.99
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