Widget Box vs Screenmade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Box
Create and customize your own widgets for your home screen. Share your designs with friends and download widgets created by others to personalize your device.
- DIY custom widgets
- Personalize home screen
- Customize background photo/color
- Add time, date, calendar functions
- Share DIY widgets
- Download shared widgets
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Widget Box lets you DIY widgets and personalize your home screen, and you can share your own widgets or download widgets shared by others. With Widget Box, you can DIY your own widgets, including: - Customize the widget’s background photo or color. - Add time、date、calendar (.etc) functions in widget. - Share your DIY widgets to your friends. - Download any widgets from your friends. GET it right now, and just enjoy it. Terms of Use: https://widget-share.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/privacy.txt
Screenmade
Personalize your iPhone and iPad screens with a wide array of customizable widgets for Home, Lock, StandBy, and CarPlay. Create unique wallpapers and add interactive elements to your device.
- 30+ customizable widgets
- Generative wallpaper engine
- Home, Lock, StandBy, CarPlay support
- Interactive widgets (games, trackers)
- Customizable colors, fonts, layouts
- iCloud sync across devices
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Make every screen yours - Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and CarPlay. Screenmade is a widget studio packed with 30+ beautiful, fully customizable widgets and a generative wallpaper engine to match. Pick a widget and make it yours: choose colors, fonts, backgrounds, and layouts until it fits your screen perfectly. FOUR SURFACES, ONE STYLE • Home Screen - small, medium, large, and extra-large widgets • Lock Screen - inline, circular, and rectangular widgets • StandBy - oversized, glanceable widgets made to read across the room, including a calm night mode • CarPlay - widgets made for car lovers TAP TO PLAY Some widgets do more than sit there. Play songs on the Piano, tap out grooves on the Drum Pad, pop a sheet of Bubble Wrap, log a glass on the Water Tracker, shake the Fortune Ball, or feed your Virtual Pet - with real sound, right from the widget. Check off habits and groceries, or launch an app or contact in a single tap. No need to open the app. MAKE IT YOURS • Background styles like Tinted, Solid, Mesh, Radial, Duotone, and Gloss • A curated color palette plus custom colors, and a set of typefaces (rounded, serif, modern, italic, mono) • Hand-tuned presets for every widget, so you can start from a look you love and make it your own GENERATIVE WALLPAPERS Create one-of-a-kind wallpapers with a library of art engines - Mesh, Marble, Stripes, Bauhaus, Topographic, Bokeh, Northern Lights, and more - in tones that match your vibe. Export for any iPhone or iPad. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Turn on optional iCloud sync to carry your widget setups between iPhone and iPad. Your photos stay on your device. Free to download. Built for iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Screenmade at 4.7 against Widget Box's 2.0. Screenmade also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Widget Box's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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. Widget Box sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Screenmade asks for nothing beyond the download.
Screenmade holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Screenmade has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Widget Box ships an update weekly, Screenmade every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Box | Screenmade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (9 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FortuneCan Technology Co., Ltd. | SmartMood LLC |
Customer experience
Widget Box
Screenmade
In-app purchases
Widget Box
- Widget Box VIP$1.991 Month
Screenmade
No in-app purchases









