Comparison

・ (Yidget) vs Icon SD for custom home screen

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

Head to head
About

・ (Yidget)

Create custom widgets that blend seamlessly with your device's wallpaper. Select and crop an image, then set it as your wallpaper. Add widgets from your home screen and position them to create a unique, integrated look.

Highlights
  • Transparent widget creation
  • Wallpaper integration
  • Image cropping and selection
  • Home screen widget placement
  • Customizable widget positioning
Features
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Blend your favorite wallpaper and widget into one, and craft a Home Screen that's uniquely yours. How to use: • Choose a photo, crop it, and save it • Set the saved photo as your wallpaper from the Photos app (Perspective Zoom: Off) • Add the widget to your Home Screen • Touch and hold the widget, then choose "Edit Widget" to set its position The result is seamless — your wallpaper flows directly into your Home Screen. Available in Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large sizes, so you can enjoy your favorite photo across your entire Home Screen.

About

Icon SD for custom home screen

Easily design custom icons for your device's home screen. Personalize with template colors, numerous symbols, and your own photos as backgrounds. Adjust foreground and background colors, and add icon borders for a unique look.

Highlights
  • Create custom icons
  • Use own photos for background
  • Template colors
  • Many symbols available
  • Choose foreground color
  • Choose background color
  • Icon border customization
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Create icons for Shortcuts app. Features: template colors. many symbols use my photo to background. choose foreground color. choose background color. icon border.

Screenshots

・ (Yidget)4 screens
Icon SD for custom home screen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ・ (Yidget) at every 3 weeks against Icon SD for custom home screen's every 2 months. ・ (Yidget) also leads on review sentiment (65% vs 46%) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 79). Icon SD for custom home screen's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ・ (Yidget) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Icon SD for custom home screen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for ・ (Yidget) against 4.6 for Icon SD for custom home screen. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ・ (Yidget) has 1.5K ratings behind it against 79, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of ・ (Yidget)'s written reviews are positive against 46% of Icon SD for custom home screen's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

・ (Yidget) ships an update every 3 weeks, Icon SD for custom home screen every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
・ (Yidget) versus Icon SD for custom home screen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter・ (Yidget)Icon SD for custom home screen
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.5K ratings)4.6 (79 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews — better46.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1.5K — better79
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoriRanMaruDaisuke Suzuki

Customer experience

・ (Yidget)

All ratings1,482 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral4.5%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews373 reviews
Positive64.9%
Neutral11.5%
Negative23.6%

Icon SD for custom home screen

All ratings79 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral7.6%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive46.4%
Neutral26.8%
Negative26.8%

User reviews

・ (Yidget)

From 1.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Very nice
  • 👍 Good as expected
  • 👍 Great app
  • 👍 High quality
  • 👍 Fantastic app with an almost invisible name!

Room to improve

  • 🐛 bring back individual icons!!
  • 🐛 iPhone17だとうまくいかない
  • 🐛 Won't work anymore
  • 🐛 Doesn't work
  • 🐛 IOS 26

Icon SD for custom home screen

From 79 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Easy customization
  • 🎨 Attractive designs
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 🌟 Many free options
  • 🚫 Few ads

Room to improve

  • 💸 Some features paid
  • ⚠️ Frequent bugs
  • 🫥 Inconsistent alignment
  • 🚧 Difficult to use
  • 😵 Confusing instructions

Bugs and requests

・ (Yidget)

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • dock icons doesn't appear to me
  • All I get is a yellow widget.
  • Useless app
  • 變成一片黑色無法透明更新問題
  • 小工具無法編輯
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  • Does not work at all
  • App crashes everytime image saving!!!!!!
  • Can't find the blank app or transparent app, so I tried this one. Sad, wasted my time though. Such a hassle to use and adjust.
  • the widget color and background wallpaper. But after understanding how to it works i got it fixed. We simply have to take a screenshot of the wallpaper after its been set on the phone background and then use that screenshot to make the widgets
  • the widget is always a bit brighter than anything behind it, so you can see the border all around it.

Requested features

10 requests
  • I can't use shorts cut
  • 螢幕縮放模式
  • 方塊和wallpaper有色差
  • 色塊有色差
  • ios18が来ても便利
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  • 隠しアイコンがなくなった
  • Иконки
  • 名稱移除
  • Dark Mode
  • Themes support

Icon SD for custom home screen

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Background images not loading
  • Cannot save images
  • App stops working
  • Widgets bugged
  • Icons misaligned after iOS update
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  • App crashes after update
  • Transparent icons not working
  • Text color not reflecting
  • Cannot open apps after changing icons
  • Notification badges not visible

Requested features

10 requests
  • Support for iOS 26
  • Support for large icons (iOS 18)
  • Add reset function
  • More icon variations
  • Add more symbols
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  • Support for iPad Pro
  • Add 'News' icon
  • Add game icons
  • Add icons for common apps (LINE, Twitter, TikTok, etc.)
  • Improve icon alignment

In-app purchases

1 purchases

・ (Yidget)

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99
1 purchases

Icon SD for custom home screen

One-time1
  • Pro version.$6.99

Questions

Is ・ (Yidget) free?
・ (Yidget) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Icon SD for custom home screen free?
Icon SD for custom home screen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ・ (Yidget) or Icon SD for custom home screen?
Icon SD for custom home screen is rated higher. ・ (Yidget) averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while Icon SD for custom home screen averages 4.6 from 79 ratings.
Do ・ (Yidget) or Icon SD for custom home screen have ads?
Both ・ (Yidget) and Icon SD for custom home screen show ads.
Which is updated more often, ・ (Yidget) or Icon SD for custom home screen?
・ (Yidget) ships an update every 3 weeks, and Icon SD for custom home screen every 2 months. Most recently, ・ (Yidget) was updated on September 23, 2026 and Icon SD for custom home screen on September 22, 2026.

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