Comparison

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia vs PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia

Personalize your home and lock screens with thousands of pre-made widgets or create your own unique designs. Customize with icons, wallpapers, and various data displays like weather, calendar, and health.

Highlights
  • Thousands of pre-built widgets
  • Powerful widget design tools
  • Customizable icons and wallpapers
  • Home and iOS 16 lock screen widgets
  • Weather, Calendar, and Health widgets
  • Animated GIFs and Charts
Features
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From the team behind WatchMaker, the world’s largest watch face community, widgetopia gives you everything you need to make your Home Screen and Lock Screen feel like your own. 100,000+ WIDGETS Explore a huge library of widgets created by our community, with new designs added every day. Find clocks, weather, calendars, photos, fitness, quotes, anime, aesthetic designs and much more. MAKE IT YOURS Found something you like? Remix it. Or start from scratch and design your own with powerful tools for layers, fonts, colours, gradients, charts, formulas and live data. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Weather — current, hourly and daily • Calendars and agendas • Photos and animated GIFs • Steps, Activity rings and heart rate with Apple Health • Battery, time, date and analog or digital clocks • Countdowns, moon phases, progress bars and charts • 70+ widget themes • Transparent widgets • 5,000+ icons and complete icon packs • Wallpapers for Home Screen and Lock Screen • Custom JSON endpoints and JavaScript expressions • Import and share widgets FREE TO USE widgetopia is free to use, including the full design tools. Some widgets are marked PLUS. You can unlock them individually by watching a short video, or unlock everything with widgetopia+ and remove ads. widgetopia+ • Weekly: $3.99 USD • Yearly: $19.99 USD Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID settings. Prices may vary by country and are charged in your local currency. Requires iOS 18 or later. Privacy Policy: https://widgetopia.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://widgetopia.io/terms OPTIONAL PERMISSIONS widgetopia only asks for access when a widget needs it: • Location — weather for where you are • Calendar — show your events on widgets • Apple Health — steps, Activity rings and heart rate on widgets you choose • Photos — save wallpapers to your library • Notifications — new widgets and tips

About

PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen

Easily personalize your phone's home screen with customizable widgets. Add photo frames, track important dates with countdowns, and create unique calendar views. Choose from various aesthetic templates, backgrounds, and lettering styles to make your device uniquely yours.

Highlights
  • Photo frame widgets
  • Day counting widgets
  • Customizable calendar widgets
  • Aesthetic widget templates
  • Background pattern options
  • Font and lettering customization
Features
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PicCo Widget (formerly Widget Go) is an easy-to-use widget maker with various aesthetic widget templates. PicCo Widget allows you to quickly and easily personalize your home screen. [Various Widget Types] ・Photo Frames: decorate your photos with different designs. ・Day Counting: keep track of important life events or count down to upcoming activities. ・Calendar: brighten your every day by creating a customized calendar widget. [Aesthetic Widget Templates] ・Backgrounds: PicCo Widget provides a number of background patterns and color personalization options. ・Lettering: use different font and lettering combinations to create unique widgets. Use PicCo Widget to unleash your creativity and make your home screen your own!

Screenshots

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia4 screens
PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen at none against Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia's 4. Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia's advantage is ratings volume (8.6K vs 1.3K) and review sentiment (61% vs 52%). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia has 8.6K ratings behind it against 1.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia's written reviews are positive against 52% of PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia ships an update every 3 weeks, PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia versus PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLock + Home Widgets widgetopiaPicCo Widget Custom Homescreen
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8.6K ratings)4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.0% of reviews — better51.7% of reviews
Number of ratings8.6K — better1.3K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWatch Faces & WidgetsCardinal Blue

Customer experience

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia

All ratings8,643 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral4.8%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews513 reviews
Positive61.0%
Neutral9.0%
Negative30.0%

PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen

All ratings1,289 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive51.7%
Neutral13.5%
Negative34.8%

Bugs and requests

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Widgets not refreshing properly
  • Time/weather/battery info not updating
  • Widgets appearing blurry on home screen
  • Crashes/freezes when using the app

Requested features

6 requests
  • More free widget options
  • Ability to remove Widgetopia branding
  • Better tutorial/guidance
  • Faster widget updates
  • More font/icon options
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  • Ability to launch apps from widgets

PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia

Subscriptions3
  • widgetopia+3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • widgetopia+ (Weekly)3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • widgetopia VIP$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$5.99
None

PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia free?
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen free?
PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia or PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen?
PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen is rated higher. Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia averages 4.5 out of 5 from 8.6K ratings, while PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen averages 4.7 from 1.3K ratings.
Do Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia or PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen have ads?
Neither Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia nor PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia or PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen?
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia ships an update every 3 weeks, and PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen every 6 weeks. Most recently, Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia was updated on October 15, 2026 and PicCo Widget Custom Homescreen on October 16, 2026.

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