Icon SD for custom home screen vs Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Icon SD for custom home screen
Easily design custom icons for your device's home screen. Personalize with template colors, numerous symbols, and your own photos as backgrounds. Adjust foreground and background colors, and add icon borders for a unique look.
- Create custom icons
- Use own photos for background
- Template colors
- Many symbols available
- Choose foreground color
- Choose background color
- Icon border customization
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Create icons for Shortcuts app. Features: template colors. many symbols use my photo to background. choose foreground color. choose background color. icon border.
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 Icon SD for custom home screen's 1. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 46%). Icon SD for custom home screen's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Icon SD for custom home screen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Icon SD for custom home screen against 4.7 for Widget Notes Home Lock Screen. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 81 and 116 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 46% of Icon SD for custom home screen's written reviews are positive against 71% of Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Icon SD for custom home screen | Widget Notes Home Lock Screen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (81 ratings) | 4.7 (116 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.4% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 81 | 116 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daisuke Suzuki | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Icon SD for custom home screen
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Bugs and requests
Icon SD for custom home screen
Reported bugs
10 issues- Background images not loading
- Cannot save images
- App stops working
- Widgets bugged
- Icons misaligned after iOS update
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- App crashes after update
- Transparent icons not working
- Text color not reflecting
- Cannot open apps after changing icons
- Notification badges not visible
Requested features
10 requests- Support for iOS 26
- Support for large icons (iOS 18)
- Add reset function
- More icon variations
- Add more symbols
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- Support for iPad Pro
- Add 'News' icon
- Add game icons
- Add icons for common apps (LINE, Twitter, TikTok, etc.)
- Improve icon alignment
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Icon SD for custom home screen
- Pro version.$6.99
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Icon SD for custom home screen free?
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