Live Widgets vs WidgetArt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Live Widgets
Personalize your home screen with custom widgets. Add photos to clock and calendar widgets, and create date counters. Includes premium tools that launch when a widget is tapped.
- Photo widgets
- Clock widgets
- Calendar widgets
- Custom date counters
- Premium launchable tools
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Live Widgets is advanced toolbox app to customize your Home Screen, like never before. No you can add favorite photos to clock and calendar widgets. Enable cool custom date counters. The app itself also includes a premium tools: these tools can launch based on the active widget tapped. Please send feedback on what you would love to see on your widget, we will do it for you. Widgets work on all iOS/iPadOS devices with the only requirement being that it is running iOS 14
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 Live Widgets's 33%. WidgetArt also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.0) and ads (none vs shown). Live Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. WidgetArt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per year. Live Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.
WidgetArt holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 50 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Live Widgets's written reviews are positive against 88% of WidgetArt's.
Live Widgets ships an update weekly, WidgetArt every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Live Widgets | WidgetArt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (25 ratings) | 4.8 (50 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 88.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 50 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | byss mobile | 子恒 张 |
Customer experience
Live Widgets
WidgetArt
In-app purchases
Live Widgets
No in-app purchases
WidgetArt
- Yearly Premium$4.491 Year
- One-time purchase$6.99








