X Widget vs Live Shortcut
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.
Live Shortcut
Easily integrate your existing automations with Live Activities. Display reminders and important information on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island to ensure you never miss a thing.
- Integrate automations with Live Activities
- Display reminders on Lock Screen
- Utilize Dynamic Island for notifications
- Easy setup for existing shortcuts
- Customizable display options
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Hook your Shortcut automations into Live Activities easily via LiveShortcut! Leave reminders for yourself on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, a place where you're sure to not miss.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Live Shortcut at Free against X Widget's $0.99. X Widget's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment, ratings volume, device support 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
Live Shortcut is free to download; X Widget costs $0.99 up front. Live Shortcut sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. X Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
X Widget holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of X Widget's written reviews are positive against 70% of Live Shortcut's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
X Widget ships an update every 6 weeks, Live Shortcut every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 9, 2026.
| Parameter | X Widget | Live Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 3.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 雪 赵 | Andrew Fang |
Customer experience
X Widget
Live Shortcut
In-app purchases
X Widget
No in-app purchases
Live Shortcut
- Premium$0.99
