WidgetWorker vs Lumo for AWTRIX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WidgetWorker
Design and display unique, personalized widgets on your device. Customize elements like weather, photos, RSS feeds, and websites with a powerful editor. Sync configurations across all your Apple devices.
- Fully customizable widgets
- Weather data integration
- RSS feed widgets
- Website display
- Photo widgets
- Drawing tools
- Date and calendar widgets
- Map integration
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Now available for iPhone, iPad and Mac! With WidgetWorker you get beautiful and unique widgets for your device that you can customize to your liking. Create your widget configurations inside the app and chose exactly the right configuration for your widgets. For each widget type you can create multiple configurations and swap them out inside the widget to show whatever you like, whenever you want. WidgetWorker is a Photoshop like editor for creating totally custom widgets directly on your device. You can add - Weather - Fully customize weather data for your personal needs. - RSS feeds - Create custom RSS feed widgets that keep you informed. - Websites - Place your favorite websites on right on your home screen. - Photos - Show off your favorite photos. - Drawings - Customize your home screen with your own drawings. - Dates and Calendars - Create great calendar widgets - Maps: Show any location on the globe or map - Colors, Gradients and Text to your widget and position and size them as you like. There are a bunch of fonts to choose from and a great color picker to find the exact color you like. When creating your widget configuration in the app you get a live preview of the widget in all the different sizes so making the configurations is easy and fast without the need to try out changes in the actual widget itself. Of course all your widget configurations are synced across your devices so you can access them wherever you like. The use of WidgetWorker is free of charge. Within the app, you can sign up for „WidgetWorker Pro“ subscription if you need to create more than 5 widget configurations or want to consume weather data. If you choose to subscribe, you will pay the price set for your country as shown inside the app, which is US$0.99 per month or US$9.99 per year, or the equivalent in your currency. When you purchase a subscription, your iTunes account is immediately charged for the first month at confirmation of purchase. Each subscription automatically renews for another month or year unless you choose to disable automatic renewal (via the Account Settings of your OS device or via the Manage Your Subscriptions button in the Settings menu of the app) at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. The cost of a renewal by one month or year is the same as the cost of the original subscription. If automatic renewal happens, your iTunes account will be charged for the next subscription period up to 24 hours prior to the current subscription period. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. Any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited when purchasing the subscription. Privacy Policy: https://www.widgetworker.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
Lumo for AWTRIX
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Lumo turns your AWTRIX LED display into a living dashboard. These little 32×8 matrices — the Ulanzi TC001 and its cousins running AWTRIX firmware — can show anything. You just have to talk to them, and the stock interface asks for technical work. Lumo does it for you, with a native app for Mac, iPhone and iPad. NO DISPLAY YET? TRY THE DEMO A demo display answers exactly like a real one. The whole app is yours to explore, live matrix preview included, before you have bought or flashed anything. THE ROTATION EDITS LIKE A PLAYLIST Everything that cycles on your display sits in a grid of tiles, each showing what it really looks like. A gold card is on air, a grey one waits its turn. Drag to reorder, tap to switch on. SOURCES READY TO GO Weather (no key, no account), calendar, crypto prices, your Mac's processor and memory, plus the firmware's own apps: time, date, temperature, humidity, battery. ANY DATA AT ALL, THROUGH CONNECTORS This is the heart of Lumo. Point it at any API — yours or a service's — pick the value by tapping a line of the response it received, choose how it looks, and it joins the rotation. API key, Bearer token or OAuth 2.0 with PKCE. A template gallery already covers GitHub, Plausible, Stripe, YouTube, Spotify, air quality and more. A STUDIO FOR WHAT YOU INVENT Compose a message with its colour and icon, draw 32×8 pixel art, save it all as scenes you send back with one tap. A built-in icon gallery searches thousands of tiles and installs them for you, animations included. MOMENTS THAT REACH YOU Rules that watch a threshold — processor, memory, battery, temperature, or a connector's value — and light up the display when it is crossed. A timer and a Pomodoro count down on the matrix. A gateway lets any script or shortcut send a notification to it. THE DEVICE, TUNED BY HAND Manual or automatic brightness, scheduled night mode, mood light, sensor readings. Several displays live side by side in the same app. WHAT ONLY YOUR IPHONE KNOWS Your activity for the day, your reminders, birthdays, your focus mode: sources that exist only on iPhone and iPad. The app wakes in the background to keep the display current, even when closed. WITHOUT OPENING THE WINDOW, ON MAC A menu bar item gives you the weather, the timer and power, without leaving what you were doing. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR HOME No account, no server, no analytics, no ads. Lumo talks to your display on your local network, and to nobody else. Your API keys live in the system Keychain. Each permission is asked for only if you switch on the source that needs it. WHAT YOU NEED A display running AWTRIX Light or AWTRIX3 on your network. The Ulanzi TC001 ships with Ulanzi's own firmware: it has to be flashed once, with the official web flasher, and the operation is reversible. The app gives you the link, and the demo shows you what is waiting in the meantime. Interface in French and English. Shortcuts and App Intents included. Lumo is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Ulanzi or the AWTRIX project. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://movetempo.app/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lumo for AWTRIX at none against WidgetWorker's 2. WidgetWorker's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price 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. WidgetWorker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Lumo for AWTRIX asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | WidgetWorker | Lumo for AWTRIX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bastian Kohlbauer | Florent Michenaud |
In-app purchases
WidgetWorker
- WidgetWorker Pro (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- WidgetWorker Pro (Yearly)$9.991 Year
Lumo for AWTRIX
No in-app purchases
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