Comparison

Widget Box vs Screenmade

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • DIY custom widgets
  • Personalize home screen
  • Customize background photo/color
  • Add time, date, calendar functions
  • Share DIY widgets
  • Download shared widgets
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 30+ customizable widgets
  • Generative wallpaper engine
  • Home, Lock, StandBy, CarPlay support
  • Interactive widgets (games, trackers)
  • Customizable colors, fonts, layouts
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Widget Box4 screens
Screenmade4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widget Box ships an update weekly, Screenmade every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 3 level
Widget Box versus Screenmade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget BoxScreenmade
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (9 ratings) — better
Number of ratings19 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB49 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFortuneCan Technology Co., Ltd.SmartMood LLC

Customer experience

Widget Box

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Screenmade

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Widget Box

Subscriptions1
  • Widget Box VIP$1.991 Month
None

Screenmade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Widget Box free?
Widget Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Screenmade free?
Screenmade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Widget Box or Screenmade?
Screenmade is rated higher. Widget Box averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Screenmade averages 4.7 from 9 ratings.
Do Widget Box or Screenmade have ads?
Widget Box shows ads; Screenmade does not.
Which is updated more often, Widget Box or Screenmade?
Widget Box ships an update weekly, and Screenmade every 5 days. Most recently, Widget Box was updated on October 6, 2026 and Screenmade on October 7, 2026.

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