WidgetLink vs Web Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WidgetLink
Create custom home screen widgets to launch any URL or app URL scheme with a single tap. Personalize the appearance of your links with various customization options. Open links directly in your preferred third-party browser.
- Add any URL to home screen widgets
- Launch app URL schemes
- Open links in third-party browsers
- Customize link display (colors, shapes, icons)
- Quickly access and launch links
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WidgetLink lets you add any URL to your home screen widgets to be able to quickly access and launch them. - Supports any URL including apps' URL schemes. This enables you to launch any app using widgets or perform any action with them. - Supports opening links in third-party browsers. - Customization for how your links are displayed including colors, shapes, link icons and more.
Web Widget
Add your favorite websites directly to your Home screen as widgets. Select specific areas of a webpage to display and tap the widget to open the full site.
- Add favorite websites to Home screen
- Create custom webpage widgets
- Select specific display areas
- Tap widgets to open webpages
- Support for multiple widgets
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Put your favorite website right on your Home screen. Just open the app, choose websites you want to see, and then select the area that you want to appear in a widget. You can add multiple widgets for different web pages to the Home screen You can also open the webpage by tapping on Widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Web Widget at 4.5 against WidgetLink's 3.6. WidgetLink's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (53% vs 43%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Web Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WidgetLink asks for nothing beyond the download.
Web Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of WidgetLink's written reviews are positive against 43% of Web Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
WidgetLink ships an update every 22 months, Web Widget every 14 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WidgetLink | Web Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (18 ratings) | 4.5 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.9% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 14 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Vatthikorn Apiratitham | LE NGUYEN QUANG PHUOC |
Customer experience
WidgetLink
Web Widget
In-app purchases
WidgetLink
No in-app purchases
Web Widget
- Lifetime$7.99
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