Custom Widgets vs WidgetArt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Widgets
Design your home screen with personalized widgets. Add your own photos, text, or the current date. Customize colors, fonts, and even include an analog clock for a unique look.
- Custom photo widgets
- Text widgets with font customization
- Date display
- Background color options
- Analog clock integration
- Unlimited widget creation
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Personalize your home screen with your photos, text or date. Super easy to use and configure. Currently our widget support: - Set a photo of all sizes. - Unlimited different widgets - Set background color - Add analog clock - Set any text (customize font, size and color) - Show date (customize font, size and color). ----------------------------------- Information about the auto-renewable nature of the subscription - Subscription period is monthly. Every month your subscription renews. - Prices for subscriptions depends on which package you choose and will be seen in payment screen. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. - You can cancel your subscription via this url: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 - Privacy policy: http://privacy.safecloudapp.com - Term of use: http://tos.safecloudapp.com - Subscription Information : http://subscription.safecloudapp.com -----------------------------------
WidgetArt
Personalize your iPhone's home screen with a collection of stylish and customizable widgets. Choose from time, photo, calendar, and text options to create a unique look.
- Customizable widgets
- Time widgets
- Photo widgets
- Calendar widgets
- Text widgets
- Home screen personalization
- HealthKit integration
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WidgetArt is a well-designed widget collection to allow you personalize your home screen, and make your iPhone's home screen like never before. Our widgets include time widgets, photo widgets, text widgets and more with the new iOS 14 widget experience. Each widget can be easily added to your home screen for everyone. What widget can you create in WidgetArt: -Time Widget -Photo Widget -Anniversary Widget -Daily Steps Widget -Time Progress Widget -Calendar Widget -Text Widget -And more! 【Well-Designed Widgets for You】 -There are a wide collection of stylish widgets, which includes time, photo, anniversary, daily steps, time progress, calendar, text widgets and more! -Select any widget you want, add it NOW! 【Customize Your Widget】 -Hundreds of widget themes to choose from, you can freely edit theme color and layout to customize your own widget. 【Design Your Home Screen】 -With WidgetArt, it allows you personalize your home screen as you want, and make it like never before. 【Easily Setup】 -Believe us that each widget can be easily added to your home screen for everyone. WidgetArt offers monthly and yearly subscriptions. The subscription prices are: $14.99/Year -You can subscribe to ayearly plan ($14.99 billed once a year after the free trial expires). The prices are in US dollars. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. -Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. -Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the period. -Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. -Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. -Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. WidgetArt has accepted HealthKit and will read your health data with your permission. You can open or close these permissions in Apple Heath as needed; Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/widgetart-privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://sites.google.com/view/widgetart-termsofuse/ Contact us: If you have any question, please feel free to contact us via zhang@ziheng.me
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: WidgetArt at 88% against Custom Widgets's 61%. WidgetArt also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Custom Widgets's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (319 vs 50). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Custom Widgets sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month and WidgetArt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WidgetArt holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Custom Widgets has 319 ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Custom Widgets's written reviews are positive against 88% of WidgetArt's.
Custom Widgets ships an update weekly, WidgetArt every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Widgets | WidgetArt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (319 ratings) | 4.8 (50 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews | 88.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 319 — better | 50 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shesek LLC | 子恒 张 |
Customer experience
Custom Widgets
WidgetArt
Bugs and requests
Custom Widgets
Reported bugs
6 issues- 🐛 Widget image is framed with an ugly black border
- 🐛 Cannot delete widgets
- 🐛 Unable to change photo
- 🐛 Only one widget can be added
- 🐛 Only the first photo is used for subsequent widgets
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- 🐛 No settings for widgets
Requested features
4 requests- Add a delete button for widgets
- Increase the number of available widgets
- Allow changing the text under the widget
- Provide more photos to add
WidgetArt
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Custom Widgets
- Premium Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month
WidgetArt
- Yearly Premium$4.491 Year
- One-time purchase$6.99
Questions
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