Comparison

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia vs Sage Fox

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

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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

Sage Fox

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Sage Fox doesn't lecture you, and it doesn't just slam the door. It puts a fox in the doorway. When you reach the limit you set that morning, your chosen apps lock, and the fox challenges you to a game of four-in-a-row. Beat her, and you've earned fifteen minutes. Lose or walk away, and the apps rest for fifteen. Then she asks again. That pause – the moment between the reach and the scroll – is the entire app. HOW THE PACT WORKS 1. Choose the apps that tend to swallow your evening. Sage watches those, and only those. 2. Each morning, you set the day's allowance yourself. Not a number you picked once and forgot – an honest choice, made fresh, with today in front of you. 3. Scroll as usual. Sage keeps the count in the background. 4. Reach the limit and a shield steps in. Open Sage, and the duel begins. 5. Win: fifteen minutes, earned. Lose or concede: fifteen minutes of rest. The board comes back until midnight. 6. Tomorrow, you choose again. Your apps wait, locked, until you do. WHAT'S INSIDE • A real opponent. Connect Four against a fox who actually plays to win – no rigged losses, no free passes. • Today, at a glance. Real Screen Time totals for the apps you guard, your progress against today's limit, and where the rest of the hours went. • The honest math. Before you commit, Sage shows you what those apps have already taken today – and what they add up to over a lifetime. • A day off, when you mean it. Step out of the pact for a day without tearing it down. • Friction that points one way. Adding an app to the watch is instant. Taking one away asks you to press and hold – and ending the pact waits an hour before it takes effect, so the decision outlives the craving. Backing out is always a single tap. • Twelve languages. English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Thai – switchable inside the app, independent of your phone's language. PRIVACY, PLAINLY Sage reads your usage totals through Apple's Screen Time framework. It never sees what you read, watch, type, or send – and by Apple's design, it can't. Your Screen Time data stays on your iPhone. It is never uploaded, never sold, and never shared. Anonymous product analytics (which steps people use – no names, no app identities) are EU-hosted and can be turned off in Settings. GOOD TO KNOW Sage Fox requires Screen Time (Family Controls) permission to work. It guards individual apps you pick – not whole categories or websites. Because Apple's re-lock isn't instantaneous, access can end a little after the window closes. SUBSCRIPTION Sage Fox is a subscription, billed monthly or yearly. The yearly plan begins with a 14-day free trial; the monthly plan has no trial. Current prices for your region are shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of the free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://sagefox.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://sagefox.app/support Your hours are worth more than the scroll. Sage will hold the line with you.

Screenshots

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia4 screens
Sage Fox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia at none against Sage Fox's shown. Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). Sage Fox's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). 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

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 and Sage Fox sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia ships an update every 3 weeks, Sage Fox weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia versus Sage Fox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLock + Home Widgets widgetopiaSage Fox
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWatch Faces & WidgetsAnastasiia Bosakevych

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

Sage Fox

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
2 purchases

Sage Fox

Subscriptions2
  • Sage Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Sage Yearly14 Days trial$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia free?
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sage Fox free?
Sage Fox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia or Sage Fox have ads?
Sage Fox shows ads; Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia does not.
Which is updated more often, Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia or Sage Fox?
Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia ships an update every 3 weeks, and Sage Fox weekly. Most recently, Lock + Home Widgets widgetopia was updated on October 24, 2026 and Sage Fox on October 10, 2026.

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