Comparison

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen vs iconMe

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

iconMe

Features
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Make your app icon without opening a computer. Place shapes and icons, pick your colors, and your own icon is done in minutes. ■ All with your fingers Drop a shape or an icon on the canvas, then drag, resize, and rotate it. There is nothing to set up, and undo and redo are always one tap away, so it is easy to try things. ■ Or let AI draft it for you Write a line about the app you are making and AI picks the shapes, icons, text, and colors and puts an icon together. You can also ask it to change an icon you already have. What you get is ordinary layers, so you finish it by hand from there. It needs an Anthropic API key of your own, and Anthropic bills you directly (the app shows an estimate for each request). Without a key, the feature stays off. ■ 45 shapes and over 3,700 icons Circles and rectangles, plus stars, hearts, clouds, leaves, and speech bubbles — 45 shapes in all — and over 3,700 bundled icons you can find by name or keyword. Fills are solid or gradient (linear, radial, angular), strokes have their own width, cap, and dash, and text can use any typeface on your device. ■ Photos too, cut out on device Import a photo and crop, scale, rotate, or color-correct it. Lifting the subject out runs on your device, so nothing is uploaded and no account is needed. ■ Draw once, export every size Finish one 1024×1024 artwork and export every size Xcode asks for: a complete AppIcon.appiconset, 18 sizes, as a ZIP. You can also export the 1024px PNG or save to Photos. Each size is redrawn at that size instead of being scaled down, so small icons stay sharp. There is no alpha channel, so the files go straight into Xcode and App Store Connect. ■ Check it at real size Icon grid and safe area guides, a rounded home screen preview, and a light / dark switch. Line up several candidates and compare them at 60 / 40 / 29 / 20pt. Alternates for the same app can be stacked into a single tile, so the list stays tidy however many you try, and you pick the one that sits in front. ■ Nothing leaves unless you ask AI This app has no server of its own. The icons you make, the photos you import, and your settings stay on your device. The only thing that ever leaves is what you write to the AI, together with the make-up of the icon, sent to Anthropic with your own key. Photos are never sent. There are no analytics and no ads. ■ Languages English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean ■ Free and Pro The free plan keeps up to 2 projects. Creating or duplicating a third one and beyond needs Pro. Projects you already made stay open to edit and export even after a subscription ends. Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. · Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. · It renews automatically at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period. · Manage or cancel it in App Store settings. · Terms of Use: https://aucfan-suguru-yamada.github.io/app-icon-generator/terms.html · Privacy Policy: https://aucfan-suguru-yamada.github.io/app-icon-generator/privacy.html

Screenshots

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen4 screens
iconMe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widget Notes Home Lock Screen at none against iconMe's 2. iconMe's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price 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. iconMe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen ships an update every 2 months, iconMe every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen versus iconMe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget Notes Home Lock ScreeniconMe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (115 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings115 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFugaPiyo Inc.Suguru Yamada

In-app purchases

None

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

iconMe

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$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 iconMe free?
iconMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Widget Notes Home Lock Screen or iconMe have ads?
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen shows ads; iconMe does not.
Which is updated more often, Widget Notes Home Lock Screen or iconMe?
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen ships an update every 2 months, and iconMe every 3 days. Most recently, Widget Notes Home Lock Screen was updated on October 23, 2026 and iconMe on October 7, 2026.

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