Comparison

Lock Screen Widgets App vs Date and Time Widget

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

Head to head
About

Lock Screen Widgets App

Personalize your iPhone's home screen with vibrant, informative widgets. Easily add customizable date, time, calendar, and battery percentage displays with colorful backgrounds. Transform your device into a visually appealing and functional dashboard.

Highlights
  • Customizable widgets
  • Date and time display
  • Calendar integration
  • Battery percentage
  • Colorful backgrounds
  • Easy to use
Features
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Widget Themes helps you set up color widgets with just a few clicks! It’s really easy to use and change widgets. Your home screen will be amazing and informative like never before! Add any date, time, calendar and battery percentage widgets with colorful and well-designed backgrounds.
 The app contains the following subscription options: - 1 year membership costs from $29.99.
 - 1 week membership costs from $7.99 after 3 days free trial.
 - The price is for US customers. Pricing in other countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. - 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. - Any unused portion of the free trial will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://pastimeapps.com/privacy
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About

Date and Time Widget

Display a customizable date and time widget on your home screen. Choose from over 150 templates or design your own with custom backgrounds, fonts, and colors for a personalized glanceable display.

Highlights
  • Customizable home screen widget
  • 150+ widget templates
  • Custom background options
  • Adjustable text color and font
  • Background gradient and overlay
  • Free to download
Features
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Create a beautiful widget on your home screen to show you the date and time at just a glance. Select from one of the 150+ widget templates that are ready to use. Customize the widget to make an unique design by choosing a custom background, text color, font, background gradient, overlay and much more Download for FREE today!

Screenshots

Lock Screen Widgets App4 screens
Date and Time Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Lock Screen Widgets App at 4.4 against Date and Time Widget's 3.3. Lock Screen Widgets App also leads on review sentiment (29% vs 9%) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 265). Date and Time Widget's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). On price, ads, 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 Screen Widgets App sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Date and Time Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lock Screen Widgets App holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.1K and 265 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Lock Screen Widgets App's written reviews are positive against 9% of Date and Time Widget's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lock Screen Widgets App versus Date and Time Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLock Screen Widgets AppDate and Time Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.1K ratings) — better3.3 (265 ratings)
Positive reviews28.6% of reviews — better9.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1.1K — better265
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size302 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYahor KamisarukSK Studios Ltd

Customer experience

Lock Screen Widgets App

All ratings1,050 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral3.7%
Negative12.1%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

Date and Time Widget

All ratings265 ratings
Positive52.5%
Neutral10.6%
Negative37.0%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive9.3%
Neutral14.0%
Negative76.7%

User reviews

Lock Screen Widgets App

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • ❤️ Beautiful
  • 💕 Nice

Room to improve

  • 🤑 Paid features
  • 🕰️ Not customizable enough
  • 🐌 Slow performance

Date and Time Widget

From 265 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Lovely artwork
  • ✨ Pretty awesome customization
  • 👍 Great widget app for day and date
  • 🌟 Nice clean app with great easy to use features

Room to improve

  • ⏰ Time always off
  • ⏳ Time lagging behind
  • 🐌 Time doesn't update automatically
  • 🤔 Widget doesn't keep accurate time
  • 😵 Confusing setup

Bugs and requests

Lock Screen Widgets App

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Time widget stuck on old time
  • Crashes and freezes

Requested features

2 requests
  • Allow changing font and colors
  • Add 12-hour time format

Date and Time Widget

Reported bugs

34 issues
  • Time is always off
  • Time stops keeping correct time
  • Time not keeping up with actual time
  • Widget does not keep accurate time
  • Time is off by 3-15 minutes
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  • Clock widget doesn't keep accurate time, always behind
  • A few minutes off of actual time
  • Time widget is always 15 minutes behind
  • Text overlaps
  • Doesn't keep accurate time
  • Changed time and date widget choice three times, all show wrong time
  • Not showing correct time on Home Screen
  • Doesn't keep time, have to reset every time
  • Doesn't keep time
  • Time widget displays is slow
  • Widget does not keep accurate time information
  • Widget will be 10 to 20 minutes behind and will not update until phone is turned off and on
  • Rarely shows correct time
  • Time is wrong more often than right
  • Time does not update automatically, always off by several minutes
  • Time remains the same and does not change
  • Cannot remove the word widget from under the date and time
  • Time and Date Widget always delays the time
  • Time lagging on both phones
  • Time freezes sometimes
  • Clock stayed at the time it was when saved
  • Time doesn’t update automatically, time stands still
  • Time is off
  • Small widget doesn’t adjust to size
  • Time is wrong
  • Date and time are usually wrong
  • Clock does not auto refresh at times
  • Time is lagging, about 10 minutes behind
  • Clock lags behind 5, 10, even 15 minutes

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add 24 hr function
  • Make it easier and more intuitive to use
  • Allow users to find saved versions
  • Improve setup process
  • Fix overlapping text
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  • Allow users to revert color changes
  • Fix time display format (minutes under hour)
  • Allow widget to adjust size
  • Fix auto-refresh issues
  • Improve accuracy of time display

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Lock Screen Widgets App

Subscriptions4
  • Widget Gallery - Premium$4.997 Days
  • Premium Color Widgets3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Widget Themes - Premium 2$7.997 Days
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  • Widget Themes - Premium$29.991 Year
1 purchases

Date and Time Widget

One-time1
  • Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Lock Screen Widgets App free?
Lock Screen Widgets App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Date and Time Widget free?
Date and Time Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lock Screen Widgets App or Date and Time Widget?
Lock Screen Widgets App is rated higher. Lock Screen Widgets App averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while Date and Time Widget averages 3.3 from 265 ratings.
Do Lock Screen Widgets App or Date and Time Widget have ads?
Neither Lock Screen Widgets App nor Date and Time Widget shows ads.

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