X Widget vs Shortify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable widgets
- Photo widgets
- Slideshow widgets
- Text widgets
- Date and time widgets
- Font and color customization
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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.
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.
- 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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
X Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, Shortify weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | X Widget | Shortify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.4 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 雪 赵 | The Openly Operated Company |
Customer experience
X Widget
Shortify
In-app purchases
X Widget
No in-app purchases
Shortify
- 100 Free Shorts - Signup BonusFree
- 10 Shorts$0.99
- Handcrafted Lux Icon - Mint$4.99
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- 100 Shorts$4.99
- 1000 Shorts$9.99
- 10000 Shorts$49.99









