Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia vs Firefly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Firefly
Personalize your iPhone's charging screen with a wide variety of animated themes and sounds. Customize your experience with flexible settings and enjoy a unique visual display while your device powers up.
- Set charging animations
- Multiple animation themes
- Customizable animation sounds
- Flexible settings
- Detailed setup guide
- Personalized charging experience
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This is the best app to get a new look for your iPhone’s screen while it is charged. There are plenty of high quality hot & trendy icon & screen charging animations that can be customized to create your unique charging experience! Main Features: - Set charging animation: Hundreds of high quality animations - Multiple animation themes: Hot, Trending, Anime, Cartoon, Abstract,... - Flexible settings: Support setting animation sound, progress icon display, battery information, etc… You can easily customize your charging screen in your own style! - Convenient and smooth setting experience with detailed guide How to use: - Overlay permission required according to the tutorial to display animation - Choose your favorite theme and charging animation - Customize your animation with flexible setting functions - Plug your phone into the charger and enjoy unique charging experiences! - You can register a premium account with all the features of app without ads - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - Links to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy can be found below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q5QQ0p7ARSV51n9XFWZI8MVErZd04Cd8NcvNJsGuvfM - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. From now on, when charging iPhones, your screen will be more attractive than ever with various personalized animations! Just install the Master charging animations app and if you like it, please rate 5 stars to support us. Thank you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia at 61% against Firefly's 0%. Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). Firefly's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Firefly sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia has 8.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia's written reviews are positive against 0% of Firefly's.
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia ships an update every 3 weeks, Firefly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia | Firefly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8.7K ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8.7K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 216 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Watch Faces & Widgets | Mai Pham Thi Ngoc |
Customer experience
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia
Firefly
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
Firefly
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia
- widgetopia+3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- widgetopia+ (Weekly)3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- widgetopia VIP$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$5.99
Firefly
- Battery Access Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
- Weekly Sub Firefly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
- Monthly Sub Firefly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
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- Battery Access Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Yearly Sub Firefly3 Days trial$34.991 Year
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