Custom Widgets vs Widget Playground
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 -----------------------------------
Widget Playground
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Your home screen is prime real estate — so build something fun and useful on it. Widget Playground is a design studio for widgets that do more: craft photo and text art, play tap-to-answer quizzes, and chart your Apple Health data your way. Start with a photo, an AI image, or a blank canvas, then drag, pinch, and twist every element until it's exactly, delightfully yours. GET CREATIVE • Start from a library photo or a plain canvas, or generate one with Apple Image Playground • Direct-manipulation editing: drag to move, pinch to resize, twist to rotate, double-tap to type • Around 25 font families, sizes from 8 to 600 pt, true bold and italic faces • Four color modes: solid, gradient, rainbow, and per-letter — give every single letter its own color and size • 3D extruded text with adjustable depth, plus text that curves along an arc • Speech bubbles and rounded containers with tails, padding, and fills • Subject lift: your photo's subject rises into its own layer, so text weaves behind a person and in front of the sky — move and scale the subject and the background fills itself in • Background tricks: blur, black & white, hue shift, or swap in a solid or gradient fill WIDGETS THAT DO THINGS • Countdowns to any date ahead, plus a live ticking timer with steady monospaced digits • Tap counters: tap the widget itself to count laps, coffees, or days — no app launch needed • Auto-updating dates in your pick of format, length, and case • Quotes in a range of tones — including one that riffs on your own photo, so every image gets a different take (on devices that support Apple Intelligence) QUIZ YOURSELF FROM THE HOME SCREEN • 12 topics: Geography, Flags, Math, Science, Space, Memory, and more • Answer by tapping the widget — instant green-or-red feedback, then the next question • Difficulty levels and per-topic colors, with scores, streaks, and accuracy tracked in the app • Fresh questions from Apple Intelligence, backed by a curated bank so there's always a next question YOUR HEALTH, CHARTED YOUR WAY • 14 health metrics (integrates with the Health app and uses data stored in the Health app) — steps, heart rate, sleep, workouts, mood, and more • Multiple chart styles: trend lines, hourly ranges, sleep hypnograms, top-days medals, and beyond • Latest Workout shows a map snapshot of your recorded GPS route • Log water, caffeine, weight, and mood with one tap, straight from the widget • Custom accent colors on your charts, plus light or dark looks per widget A FEW MORE THINGS • Up to 30 widgets at once, each in its own slot, in small, medium, and large sizes • A rectangle crop mode tailors each square design for medium widgets, element by element • Widgets render with the same math as the editor — what you design is what you get • Tap any widget to jump right back into its editor, and share any design as an image PRIVACY • We do not collect any data from this app. • Privacy Policy: https://sydvesti.com/privacy-policy Note: AI image generation requires iOS 27 or iPadOS 27 and a device that supports Apple Intelligence. AI quotes and quiz generation also use Apple Intelligence where available. Health widgets need permission, granted once in the app. Please note that some features require a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula If you have any questions, we're happy to help: contact@sydvesti.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Custom Widgets at weekly against Widget Playground's monthly. Custom Widgets also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 Widget Playground sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Custom Widgets ships an update weekly, Widget Playground monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Widgets | Widget Playground |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (324 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 324 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shesek LLC | Sydvesti Oy |
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
Widget Playground
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Custom Widgets
- Premium Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month
Widget Playground
- Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
- Yearly Premium$9.991 Year
Questions
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