Comparison

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen vs Lively Widget

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

Head to head
About

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen

Create and customize widgets for your home screen to display notes and photos. Personalize backgrounds, fonts, and set reminders with repeated notifications. Enjoy unlimited widgets and dark mode support.

Highlights
  • Unlimited home screen widgets
  • Photo and background color options
  • Customizable fonts
  • Notes sharing and sorting
  • Repeated notification reminders
  • Dark mode support
Features
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It's a notes & photos app compatible with iOS14 home screen widgets. All features are completely free to use. - Unlimited widgets on the home screen (all sizes supported) - Background settings: photo / background color (gradation) - Font settings: color / size / weight / position - Share / copy / sort notes - Reminders (with repeated notifications) - Dark mode - Free & no additional charge URL scheme: widgetnotes://

About

Lively Widget

Create animated and highly customizable widgets for your iPhone's home and lock screens. Display health data, photos, quotes, pixel art, and more with a wide range of design options and presets.

Highlights
  • Animated widget creation
  • Health and activity data display
  • Photo and quote widgets
  • Pixel art creation
  • GIF sticker integration
  • StandBy mode compatibility
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Try out our latest Activity and Health widget with the following health features: 1. Energy Burned, Exercise Time, and Stand Hours. 2. Step Count and Walking Distance. 3. Heart Rate, Resting Heart Rate, Walking Heart Rate Average, and Heart Rate Variability. 4. Blood Oxygen and Respiratory Rate. 5. Environmental Sound Level and Headphone Audio Levels. 6. Double Support Time, Walking Asymmetry, Walking Speed, Walking Step Length, and Stair Speed. 7. Blood Pressure. 8. Blood Glucose. 9. All health data can be displayed in chart view and customized for a specific date range, such as 24 hours or 7 days. Animate your Widgets! Lively Widget allows you to create your own animated iOS widgets for your iPhone lock screen and home screen, enhancing your iPhone screen's overall aesthetics and liveliness. You can create nice-looking activity & health widgets, clock widgets, battery widgets, photo widgets, quote widgets, GIF sticker widgets, or even pixel art widgets! Most of our widgets are compatible with StandBy mode in the newly released iOS 17. Lively Widget enables you to upload images from your album, add text, apply borders, change background and adjust various aspects such as size, rotation, and position of your images. All widgets within Lively Widget are highly customizable and can be designed as frame-by-frame animated widgets. You can create activity widgets or health widgets to keep track of your daily fitness routine and body measurements, such as heart rate, step count, energy burned, blood pressure, and blood glucose level. Charts can be used in the widgets to show data of the last 7 days or last 24 hours. You can also create your own pixel art from scratch using an empty canvas, convert your photos into pixel art, or simply select a pixel art widget from our collection. Lively Widgets offers a wide collection of moving GIF stickers & widget presets for you to make custom lock screen widgets and home screen widgets, with cute & cool categories like emojis, animals, sports, self-care, pixel art, nature, love, quotes, etc. The presets collection will only grow bigger over time! Examples: You can select a bunch of photos of your loved ones and add them to a home screen photo widget to put a smile on you during the day. You can create your own motivational quote widgets on your home screen to inspire yourself and keep you going. You can add an animated emoji widget on your lock screen to give yourself a smile whenever you look at your iPhone. Lively Widget is available for free download. The trial version offers limited access to stickers and features. It provides a good opportunity to explore and familiarize yourself with the app. To unlock all features and animated widgets & stickers, you can subscribe to Lively Widget Pro on a monthly, yearly, or lifetime basis. Start personalizing your lock screen or home screen with animated widgets by getting it now! If you like Lively Widget, please rate us on the App Store! If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at hello@livelywidget.com. Term of Services & End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.livelywidget.com/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen4 screens
Lively Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Widget Notes Home Lock Screen at 4.7 against Lively Widget's 3.9. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Lively Widget's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lively Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 113 and 40 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's written reviews are positive against 78% of Lively Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen ships an update every 2 months, Lively Widget monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen versus Lively Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget Notes Home Lock ScreenLively Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (113 ratings) — better3.9 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews78.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings113 — better40
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB1.2 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFugaPiyo Inc.Square Digital Limited

Customer experience

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen

All ratings113 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral10.7%
Negative17.9%

Lively Widget

All ratings37 ratings
Positive67.6%
Neutral8.1%
Negative24.3%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative17.4%

In-app purchases

None

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Lively Widget

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Quarterly Subscription$4.993 Months
  • Yearly Subscription$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Widget Notes Home Lock Screen free?
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lively Widget free?
Lively Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Widget Notes Home Lock Screen or Lively Widget?
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen is rated higher. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen averages 4.7 out of 5 from 113 ratings, while Lively Widget averages 3.9 from 40 ratings.
Do Widget Notes Home Lock Screen or Lively Widget have ads?
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen shows ads; Lively Widget does not.
Which is updated more often, Widget Notes Home Lock Screen or Lively Widget?
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen ships an update every 2 months, and Lively Widget monthly. Most recently, Widget Notes Home Lock Screen was updated on October 19, 2026 and Lively Widget on October 20, 2026.

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