Comparison

WidgetArt vs Color Widgets Instant

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

Head to head
About

WidgetArt

Personalize your iPhone's home screen with a collection of stylish and customizable widgets. Choose from time, photo, calendar, and text options to create a unique look.

Highlights
  • Customizable widgets
  • Time widgets
  • Photo widgets
  • Calendar widgets
  • Text widgets
  • Home screen personalization
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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WidgetArt is a well-designed widget collection to allow you personalize your home screen, and make your iPhone's home screen like never before. Our widgets include time widgets, photo widgets, text widgets and more with the new iOS 14 widget experience. Each widget can be easily added to your home screen for everyone. What widget can you create in WidgetArt: -Time Widget -Photo Widget -Anniversary Widget -Daily Steps Widget -Time Progress Widget -Calendar Widget -Text Widget -And more! 【Well-Designed Widgets for You】 -There are a wide collection of stylish widgets, which includes time, photo, anniversary, daily steps, time progress, calendar, text widgets and more! -Select any widget you want, add it NOW! 【Customize Your Widget】 -Hundreds of widget themes to choose from, you can freely edit theme color and layout to customize your own widget. 【Design Your Home Screen】 -With WidgetArt, it allows you personalize your home screen as you want, and make it like never before. 【Easily Setup】 -Believe us that each widget can be easily added to your home screen for everyone. WidgetArt offers monthly and yearly subscriptions. The subscription prices are: $14.99/Year -You can subscribe to ayearly plan ($14.99 billed once a year after the free trial expires). The prices are in US dollars. 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. -Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the 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 a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. WidgetArt has accepted HealthKit and will read your health data with your permission. You can open or close these permissions in Apple Heath as needed; Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/widgetart-privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://sites.google.com/view/widgetart-termsofuse/ Contact us: If you have any question, please feel free to contact us via zhang@ziheng.me

About

Color Widgets Instant

Personalize your device's home screen with a vast collection of pre-designed widgets for weather, time, calendar, photos, and more. Easily apply existing designs or create your own unique widgets with extensive customization options for fonts, colors, and backgrounds.

Highlights
  • Pre-made widget designs
  • Custom widget creation
  • Font customization
  • Theme and color selection
  • Photo widgets
  • Multiple widget types
Features
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Color Widgets Instant contains a large set of good pre-made designs for weather, forecast, count-down, time, date, battery, calendar, photo collection, quotes and more. You can immediately use the design in second or better yet, make your own. This app provides powerful customization tools to make widgets on your Home Screen unique: - Design your favorite widget with many widget types available - Customize Font with hundreds amazing fonts - Freely re-select theme color and background color - Put your photo to widget Color Widgets Instant regularly update new pre-made widgets, enriching your choices day by day. With Color Widgets Instant, there is no limit to customize your home screen Subscription plans: • 3 days free trial then monthly subscription • Or buy lifetime one time and use forever • Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. • You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase. • Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of service: https://sites.google.com/view/green-app/term-of-use Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/green-app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

WidgetArt4 screens
Color Widgets Instant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Color Widgets Instant at freemium against WidgetArt's subscription. Color Widgets Instant also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (250 vs 50). WidgetArt's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. WidgetArt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per year and Color Widgets Instant sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WidgetArt holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Widgets Instant has 250 ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of WidgetArt's written reviews are positive against 81% of Color Widgets Instant's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WidgetArt ships an update every 5 weeks, Color Widgets Instant every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
WidgetArt versus Color Widgets Instant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidgetArtColor Widgets Instant
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (50 ratings) — better4.6 (250 ratings)
Positive reviews88.0% of reviews — better80.6% of reviews
Number of ratings50250 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer子恒 张Bui Van Phuoc

Customer experience

WidgetArt

All ratings50 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive88.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative4.0%

Color Widgets Instant

All ratings250 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive80.6%
Neutral13.4%
Negative6.0%

Bugs and requests

WidgetArt

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Color Widgets Instant

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App stops working after reinstallation
  • Widget temperature and data not displaying
  • Plus button not appearing in jiggle mode on iPad
  • Only one widget showing instead of multiple created
  • Widgets turning black after updates
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  • Pedometer widget keeps resetting
  • Image cropping showing unwanted online content
  • White borders appearing on uploaded images

Requested features

8 requests
  • More widget design schemes and choices
  • Apple Watch app compatibility
  • NFL and sports-themed widget options
  • Easier photo album selection interface
  • Image resizing and adjustment within widget editor
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  • Better image cropping control
  • Multiple widgets display on home screen
  • Improved widget preview functionality

In-app purchases

2 purchases

WidgetArt

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Premium$4.491 Year
One-time1
  • One-time purchase$6.99
2 purchases

Color Widgets Instant

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Premium Version3 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium Version$6.99

Questions

Is WidgetArt free?
WidgetArt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Color Widgets Instant free?
Color Widgets Instant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WidgetArt or Color Widgets Instant?
WidgetArt is rated higher. WidgetArt averages 4.8 out of 5 from 50 ratings, while Color Widgets Instant averages 4.6 from 250 ratings.
Do WidgetArt or Color Widgets Instant have ads?
Neither WidgetArt nor Color Widgets Instant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WidgetArt or Color Widgets Instant?
WidgetArt ships an update every 5 weeks, and Color Widgets Instant every 4 days. Most recently, WidgetArt was updated on October 17, 2026 and Color Widgets Instant on October 13, 2026.

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