Photo Widget Studio vs WidgetWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Photo Widget Studio
Personalize your device's home screen with custom photo widgets. Create full-format displays or collages with various layouts. Define unique tap actions for each widget, like opening contacts or sending direct messages.
- Home screen personalization
- Custom photo widgets
- Collage creation
- Multiple layout options
- Custom tap actions
- Contact and message shortcuts
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Personalize your home screen. Wide collection of tools to create and tune in photo widgets. Use a full format or create a lovely collage with many possible layouts. Each widget allows defining custom tap action like open the contact detail or direct Whatsapp message.
WidgetWatch
Customize your home screen with beautiful, analog clock widgets. Choose from various styles and personalize background colors to match your device. More clock designs are planned for future updates.
- Analog clock widgets
- Customizable background colors
- Multiple clock styles
- iOS 14+ compatibility
- Home screen integration
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Widget Watch offers timelessly beautiful watches that show you the time directly on your home screen. – • One • Chromo Zero • Golden Time • White Speed • Star Sun • more clocks coming soon – You can freely change the background color of your clock widget. – Clock Widgets from WidgetWatch works on all iOS 14+ Devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WidgetWatch at 5.0 against Photo Widget Studio's 4.5. WidgetWatch also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Photo Widget Studio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and WidgetWatch sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WidgetWatch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Photo Widget Studio ships an update every 5 weeks, WidgetWatch every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Photo Widget Studio | WidgetWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lukas Gergel | HONK International |
Customer experience
Photo Widget Studio
WidgetWatch
In-app purchases
Photo Widget Studio
- Photo Widget Studio Premium$3.99
WidgetWatch
- Chrome Zero Watch$0.99
- Golden Time Watch$0.99
- Star Sun Watch$0.99
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- White Speed Watch$0.99
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