WidgetBucket vs Top Four
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WidgetBucket
Personalize your device's home screen with a wide variety of pre-made and customizable widgets. Add elements like clocks, calendars, fitness trackers, and reminders to create a unique and functional layout.
- Extensive widget gallery
- Customizable widget appearance
- Date & Time widgets
- Fitness tracking widgets
- Countdown and reminder widgets
- Contact shortcuts
- Analog clock designs
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WidgetBucket provides you the ability to add premade widgets or customize them to create the perfect home screen for you! With many custom widgets that you can choose from you can add beautiful and useful widgets that will make your device much more personalized! ∙ WIDGETS GALLERY ∙ Choose custom widgets from a large gallery of premade widgets, with many beautiful and useful elements such as Date & Time Widget, Fitness: Steps & Distance, Countdown Widget, Reminders, Photos, Analog Clocks, Calendars and much more! ∙ CUSTOMIZE WIDGETS ∙ You can also customize and personalize many aspects of the widget such as the background color or background photo, colors of the texts, fonts, styles and much more in order to create the best widgets experience for you! ∙ WIDGETS TYPES ∙ ∙∙ Photos - Select photos from your gallery to show on your home screen! ∙∙ Date - Shows the current date in many beautiful styles and designs ∙∙ Time - Shows the current time in a perfect and beautiful way on your home screen! ∙∙ Progress - Shows the progress of the day / week / month / year and also for any custom event that you want! ∙∙ Fitness - Shows today’s steps count and distance in a widget on your home screen! ∙∙ Contacts - Allows quick call to your favorite contacts directly from you home screen! ∙∙ Countdown - Presents the days left until an event to always remember you favorite events! ∙∙ Reminders - Never forget your reminders and show them with amazing design! ∙∙ Analog Clocks - Show the current time in an analog way with multiple styles! ∙∙ Calendar - Show the current date on a calendar view! ∙∙ QR - Scan and show QR codes directly from your home screen! There are so much to explore and create using WidgetBucket so don't waste your time and try it today! * If you choose to use Fitness Widgets, these widgets integrates with Apple Health app. This data is used to display information about your steps count and activity. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: https://www.algotwist.com/widgetbucket/privacy-policy-and-terms-of-use
Top Four
Personalize your phone's lock screen with customizable widgets. Add text, emojis, or symbols that can launch actions like calling contacts or controlling smart home devices. You can set up to four widgets for quick access to your favorite functions.
- Customizable text widgets
- Emoji and symbol integration
- Launch actions on tap
- Control HomeKit devices
- Open apps and contacts
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Top Four is an app to customize your lock screen widgets to be more personal to you. Choose text, emojis or symbols to add under the time. Tapping these widgets can also run an action like calling someone, toggling a HomeKit device or opening instagram (many more coming soon). You get 4 widgets to add to your lock screen (your top four). - Use text with custom fonts - Use emojis - Use one of the many symbols Have any questions or issues? email me@shabz.co
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Verdict
WidgetBucket and Top Four both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of WidgetBucket's written reviews are positive against 50% of Top Four's. WidgetBucket also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). 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. WidgetBucket sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Top Four sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for WidgetBucket against 4.7 for Top Four. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 35 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of WidgetBucket's written reviews are positive against 50% of Top Four's.
WidgetBucket ships an update weekly, Top Four every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WidgetBucket | Top Four |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (19 ratings) — better | 4.7 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AlgoTwist Ltd | ShabzCo, LLC |
Customer experience
WidgetBucket
Top Four
In-app purchases
WidgetBucket
- Best Premium Widgets3 Days trial$1.991 Month
Top Four
- Top Four Pro$1.99
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