Photo Widget Simple vs Tracing Camera
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.
Tracing Camera
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No ads, no account. Trace your own photos for free, start to finish. Tracing Camera shows your reference picture on top of the live camera view of your paper, so you can copy it with a pencil while watching the screen. It does not project light onto the paper — you look at the screen and draw on the paper underneath. No printed markers needed, ever. FREE, WITH NO LIMITS • Use your own photos (Photos, Files, paste, URL, or the share sheet) • Position lock. While locked, nothing moves — not a stray finger, not the focus, not a single pixel. Only a long press on the lock releases it • Scale in 1% steps and move in 1px steps, no pinching required • Setup guide: "You're at 22 cm. Raise the phone 10 cm more to fit all of A4." It also shows how to reach that height with things you already have, like glasses or books • Reference opacity, brightness and contrast, inverted view, and tap-to-lock focus • Save one reference (delete it to swap in another) UNLOCK WITH PRO • Tiles: split the picture into 2×2 or 3×3 and trace one section at a time — draw bigger than A4 • Unlimited saved references you can pick, reorder and delete • Grid and anchor marks: mark the same points on your paper and snap back if anything shifts • Outline-only view (smooth or detailed) YOUR FIRST DRAWING Choose a reference → place your device → trace. The screen shows only the next step. PRIVACY Camera images and references never leave your device. No tracking. Works on iPhone and iPad. ■ Pricing and auto-renewal - Pro Monthly (3-day free trial) - Pro Yearly (3-day free trial) - Pro Lifetime: one payment for all of today's paid features, for good Your local price is shown before you buy. The free trial is available once per person and is not offered on Lifetime. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within 24 hours before the period ends. You can turn off auto-renewal or cancel at any time in Settings > your Apple Account > Subscriptions. If you buy during a free trial, the remaining free period is forfeited. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tracing-camera-mrk.web.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tracing Camera at none against Photo Widget Simple's shown. Tracing Camera also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 7 months). Photo Widget Simple's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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 and Tracing Camera sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Photo Widget Simple ships an update every 7 months, Tracing Camera every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Photo Widget Simple | Tracing Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (196 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 196 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kishan Panchotiya | ryo muranaka |
In-app purchases
Photo Widget Simple
- Unlock Features & Remove Ads$3.99
- Remove Ads & Unlock All Features$9.99
Tracing Camera
- Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$24.99
Questions
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