Comparison

X Widget vs Shortify

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

Head to head
About

X Widget

Personalize your iOS 14 home screen with custom widgets. Choose from various sizes and styles, and tailor fonts, text, and background colors to match your aesthetic.

Highlights
  • Customizable widgets
  • Photo widgets
  • Slideshow widgets
  • Text widgets
  • Date and time widgets
  • Font and color customization
Features
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X Widget X Widget lets you create custom and personalized widgets for your iOS 14 home screen. X Widget app features a variety of small, medium, and large widgets for functions like Photo, Photo Slideshow, Custom Text, Date, Time. Each one can be customized to your liking through choices of font, text color, and background color. -- Set up a Widget 1. Open the X Widget App. 2. Choose whether you want to make a Small Widget, Medium Widget, or Large Widget. 3. Select the widget style of your choice. 4. Design the widget. 5. Add widget to your home screen. -- Add Widget to Your Home Screen Once you’ve designed the iOS 14 home screen widget in the X Widget app, you can head back to your home screen, long-press to enter jiggle mode, then tap the “+” icon in the upper-left corner. Look for X Widget in the list of apps, then choose the size of the widget you created. -- On your iOS 14 home screen, you can use as many widgets from X Widget as you’d like. Once you add the X Widget size to your home screen, long-press, choose “Edit Widget” and choose the “Widget” option to pick from the multiple designs you created in the X Widget app.

About

Shortify

This app condenses lengthy content like YouTube videos, articles, and documents into concise summaries. It integrates with your existing apps, saving you valuable time by quickly extracting the core information from any source.

Highlights
  • Summarize YouTube videos
  • Condense articles and blogs
  • Process PDFs and documents
  • Integrates with all apps
  • Shareable summaries
  • Track time saved
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~ Look, we'll keep this short: Shortify™ summarizes anything, including Youtube, articles, PDFs, blogs, documents, and more. It works in all your favorite apps. ~ Why? Because it saves you a bunch of time, and your time is super valuable. ~ Examples? • 15 min Youtube videos from friends ("you gotta watch this!") • Clearing out your backlog of 500 tabs ("I’ll read this one day") • Blog posts/thinkpieces that have a bit too much history • Sites/apps that are too cluttered (skips the ads/plugins) • Getting the gist of an article before committing to reading it ~ How? Open your favorite app or site, tap the Share button, and tap Shortify. ~ What else? You can get an even shorter summary. You can share your Shorts. You can see your stats, like time saved. ~ Pricing? You get 100 Shorts for free, then you pay for what you use. With 1000 Shorts at a reading speed of 238 wpm (Brysbaert 2019), you’ll get about 72 hours of your life back for the cost of 2 coffees. ~ Privacy? We don't collect any personal data. We don't use third-party trackers, ads, or any of those invasive things. There's no account signup, so there's nothing to delete. ~ I got other questions? johnny@shortifyapp.com

Screenshots

X Widget4 screens
Shortify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Shortify at Free against X Widget's $0.99. Shortify also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (34 vs 4). X Widget's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). On review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Shortify is free to download; X Widget costs $0.99 up front. Shortify sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. X Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

X Widget holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shortify has 34 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

X Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, Shortify weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
X Widget versus Shortify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterX WidgetShortify
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.4 (34 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings434 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer雪 赵The Openly Operated Company

Customer experience

X Widget

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Shortify

All ratings34 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

X Widget

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Shortify

One-time6
  • 100 Free Shorts - Signup BonusFree
  • 10 Shorts$0.99
  • Handcrafted Lux Icon - Mint$4.99
Show 3 more
  • 100 Shorts$4.99
  • 1000 Shorts$9.99
  • 10000 Shorts$49.99

Questions

Is X Widget free?
X Widget costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shortify free?
Shortify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, X Widget or Shortify?
X Widget is rated higher. X Widget averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Shortify averages 4.4 from 34 ratings.
Do X Widget or Shortify have ads?
Neither X Widget nor Shortify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, X Widget or Shortify?
X Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, and Shortify weekly. Most recently, X Widget was updated on October 9, 2026 and Shortify on October 8, 2026.

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