Widget Notes Home Lock Screen vs Widget spacer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Unlimited home screen widgets
- Photo and background color options
- Customizable fonts
- Notes sharing and sorting
- Repeated notification reminders
- Dark mode support
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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://
Widget spacer
Customize your iOS 16 Lock Screen by adding transparent widgets to reposition existing elements. Choose from two sizes and an inline option for date style, or add a custom message above the clock.
- Transparent widget spacers
- Customizable widget placement
- Two widget sizes
- Inline date style option
- Custom message above clock
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Use these new widget spacers to move your new iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets to where you want them to be. Two sizes are available for better customisation, as well as an inline option to shorten the date style. You can also set a custom message in the settings app to show above the clock. Nice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Widget spacer at none against Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's shown. Widget spacer also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 113 and 92 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's written reviews are positive against 65% of Widget spacer's.
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen ships an update every 2 months, Widget spacer daily. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Notes Home Lock Screen | Widget spacer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (113 ratings) — better | 4.4 (92 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 64.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | 92 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | Richard Shilton |
Customer experience
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
Widget spacer
In-app purchases
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen
No in-app purchases
Widget spacer
No in-app purchases
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