WidgetLink vs Webcam Widgets
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.
Webcam Widgets
Display live images from the web directly on your Home Screen. Track weather, charts, or any live image feed with customizable widgets. Share images easily with friends.
- Customizable Home Screen widgets
- Live image updates from web URLs
- Track weather, charts, and webcams
- Share images from widgets
- Supports JPEG, JPG, and PNG URLs
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ImageTracker lets you add image widgets to your Home Screen with live images from the web which update with realtime information. You can use it to track a weather cameras, various charts and figures, or anything live image you can think of! ImageTracker is the spiritual successor of SlothCam, the original webcam app for Dashboard, MacOS, and iOS, and it offers similar features to SlothCam, but in a modern Home Screen Widget format. With this app you can create widgets using any live image from the web (jpeg, jpg, png URLs). Whether it’s a satellite image of the Earth, a real-time weather forecast, space weather charts showing aurora data, or a live webcam feed, this app allows you to create dynamic widgets with live content from the web. To install a Home Screen Widget, tap and hold on your Home Screen until the icons jiggle and press + to add a widget. Once you add the widget, you can tap it while in Home Screen edit mode and add a custom URL to the widget. Features: •Customizable Widgets: Place any image URL into a Home Screen widget on your iPhone or iPad or Mac. •Live Updates: Widgets refresh periodically to display the latest data, ensuring your information is always current. •Versatile Use Cases: Ideal for displaying weather maps, NASA satellite images, live webcams, space weather charts, aurora borealis data, and more. Any image published to the web can be used! •Easily share images from widgets with friends. ImageTracker is free to use. Purchasing the app removes the in-app ad banner and the nag message that appears on the widget, and allows you to customize widgets with title text for each webcam image. Privacy Policy: https://catspaw-systems.com/PrivacyPolicies/ImageTrackerPrivacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Webcam Widgets at 100% against WidgetLink's 53%. Webcam Widgets also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 22 months). WidgetLink's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Webcam Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WidgetLink asks for nothing beyond the download.
Webcam Widgets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of WidgetLink's written reviews are positive against 100% of Webcam Widgets's.
WidgetLink ships an update every 22 months, Webcam Widgets every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WidgetLink | Webcam Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vatthikorn Apiratitham | Catspaw Systems LLC |
Customer experience
WidgetLink
Webcam Widgets
In-app purchases
WidgetLink
No in-app purchases
Webcam Widgets
- Purchase App$5.99
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