Photo Widget Simple vs Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Photo Widget Simple
Personalize your iPhone's Home and Lock Screens with a custom photo widget. Display single images or entire albums, add text labels, and choose from multiple widget sizes for a unique look. Enjoy a clean, fast, and private experience.
- Add photos to Home & Lock Screen
- Display single photos or albums
- Add custom text labels
- Multiple widget sizes
- Smart auto-refresh
- Clean design, no login
- 100% privacy
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Photo Widget Simple - The ultimate photo widget app that lets you easily create live home screen widgets, Lock Screen widgets, and custom widgets for iPhone. Personalize your Home Screen with your favorite photos. Create a photo widget, add your favorite pictures, create photo albums, and enjoy your memories directly on your Home Screen. Photo Widget - Turn your favorite photos into beautiful live home screen widgets. Choose the pictures you love and create a photo widget that makes your iPhone feel more personal. - Display photos of family, friends, pets, travel, special moments, or anything you want to keep close. Photo Album - Create photo albums to organize your favorite pictures. Add multiple photos to an album and let your photo album widget rotate through your selected photos. - Create different albums for different memories and choose which photos you want to see on your Home Screen. Features * Create widgets for your Home Screen * Add your favorite photos to photo widgets * Create and organize photo albums * Personalize your lock screen with photos * Personalize your Home Screen with your own photos * Keep family, friends, pets, and special memories close * Simple and easy-to-use widget experience * Works smoothly with iOS 16, 17, 18, and 26. Whether you are looking for a widget maker, custom widgets, color widgets or an easy way to personalize your Home Screen, Photo Widget Simple puts your favorite photos front and center. The app is also compatible with popular widget apps like Widgetsmith, Widgetable, or Locket Widget, allowing you to seamlessly integrate your custom widgets with other widget kits. Create your photo widget, organize your favorite memories, and make your Lock Screen truly yours.
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Create and customize widgets for your home screen to display notes and photos. Personalize backgrounds, fonts, and set reminders with repeated notifications. Enjoy unlimited widgets and dark mode support.
- Unlimited home screen widgets
- Photo and background color options
- Customizable fonts
- Notes sharing and sorting
- Repeated notification reminders
- Dark mode support
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It's a notes & photos app compatible with iOS14 home screen widgets. All features are completely free to use. - Unlimited widgets on the home screen (all sizes supported) - Background settings: photo / background color (gradation) - Font settings: color / size / weight / position - Share / copy / sort notes - Reminders (with repeated notifications) - Dark mode - Free & no additional charge URL scheme: widgetnotes://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Notes Home Lock Screen at none against Photo Widget Simple's 2. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 43%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). Photo Widget Simple's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support 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 Simple sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen asks for nothing beyond the download.
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 197 and 116 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Photo Widget Simple's written reviews are positive against 71% of Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's.
Photo Widget Simple ships an update every 7 months, Widget Notes Home Lock Screen every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Photo Widget Simple | Widget Notes Home Lock Screen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (197 ratings) | 4.7 (116 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 197 — better | 116 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kishan Panchotiya | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Photo Widget Simple
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
In-app purchases
Photo Widget Simple
- Unlock Features & Remove Ads$3.99
- Remove Ads & Unlock All Features$9.99
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
No in-app purchases
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