Block Screen vs widgETH
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Block Screen
Personalize your lock and home screens with live Bitcoin data. Access real-time block height, mempool fees, price, news, and mining difficulty across all your Apple devices. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with customizable themes and widgets.
- Live Bitcoin widgets for lock and home screens
- Real-time block height and price tracking
- Mempool fee recommendations
- Mining difficulty and hashrate
- Curated Bitcoin news feeds
- Customizable color themes and widget selection
- Apple Watch complications and StandBy mode support
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Turn your lock screen and Home Screen into a personalized bitcoin screen with live Bitcoin widgets. Block Screen puts real-time block height, mempool fees, price, news, and mining difficulty (and more!) on every Apple device you own: iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, CarPlay. No accounts, no ads. –––– KEY WIDGETS & VIEWS –––– • Lock-Screen Widget – glanceable block height and bitcoin prices • Home-Screen Widget – small, medium and large sizes • StandBy Mode – full-screen clock-style display while charging • Apple Watch Complication & Smart Stack – stats right on your wrist • iPad and macOS – adaptive layouts for Stage Manager and desktop • CarPlay – widgets on your vehicle dashboard –––– BITCOIN STATS YOU CARE ABOUT –––– • Block height & next halving countdown • Mempool fee recommendations (high / medium / low) • Mining network hashrate & difficulty in real time • Live BTC price in USD, EUR & more • Curated Bitcoin-only news feeds –––– BUILT FOR CUSTOMIZATION –––– • Custom color themes • Choose which widgets appear in Smart Stack rotation –––– PRIVATE BY DESIGN –––– Block Screen talks directly to public Bitcoin APIs—no log-ins, tracking, or analytics SDKs. “Everything you need and nothing you don't." Download Block Screen free today and keep with the Bitcoin network at a glance: price, mempool, or countdown to the next halving.
widgETH
This app provides iOS widgets to display real-time Ethereum gas prices and showcase your NFTs directly on your home or lock screen. While it aims for real-time data, iOS system limitations may affect update frequency.
- Real-time Ethereum gas prices
- NFT display widgets
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Supports up to 40 NFTs
- Direct data on device
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widgETH offers iOS widgets for tracking Ethereum gas prices and showing off your NFTs. The gas widget delivers real-time Ethereum gas prices directly to your device's home screen. Up to 40 different NFTs can be added as widgets to your home or lock screen. Follow on Twitter @widgETH_app. Please note that due to system limitations, our widget may not always be able to show real-time data. iOS system controls the frequency of widget updates and we don't have control over it. The data shown in the widget is a snapshot of the data at the time of the last update. Please open the app for the most accurate and real-time data. Our application does not provide financial advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Block Screen at every 11 days against widgETH's every 5 months. Block Screen also leads on ratings volume (40 vs 6). widgETH's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Block Screen against 5.0 for widgETH. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Block Screen has 40 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Block Screen's written reviews are positive against 100% of widgETH's.
Block Screen ships an update every 11 days, widgETH every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Block Screen | widgETH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Ramsden | Gabriele Pregadio |
Customer experience
Block Screen
widgETH
In-app purchases
Block Screen
No in-app purchases
widgETH
No in-app purchases
