Flex Widgets vs Widget Custom HomeScreen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flex Widgets
Create custom widgets for your device's home screen with a powerful and intuitive editor. Add text, images, health data, clocks, and more, then customize their appearance and arrangement.
- Build custom widgets
- Add text, images, and health data
- Place icons, emojis, and shapes
- Create countdowns and calendars
- Design digital and analog clocks
- Share and import widget designs
- Create custom widget themes
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Build your own widgets with the first real widget editor, edit your widgets the way you want. We bring you a super intuitive, powerful widget editor. The all in one widget app. You can place: - texts, icons, emojis, shapes - images, image slideshows - health data like heart rate or steps count (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app) - drawings, buttons, shortcuts buttons - weather icons, weather text elements - date elements, countdowns, countdown visuals, calendars, week overviews - digital time elements, analog clocks - border outlines - and more elements in your widgets. (If you want your health data like heart rate, steps count, exercise time to be displayed inside of your widgets you need to grant the Flex Widgets access to your Health app.) With our widget editor you simply place elements on your widget, edit, move, resize and rotate them. Those elements can be placed on top of each other and you can edit them however you want. Everything is fully comstomisable. Change the text font, color your widgets, add outlines and place as many of the mentioned elements as you want. Share widgets The cool thing is: you don’t even need to be creative to enjoy our widget editor. You can use the widgets others have created or pick out of the widget gallery inside of Flex Widgets. Sharing widgets is super simple. Just press share and send your widget link to your friends! Widget Themes You can also give all your widgets the same look by creating widget themes. So every widget can have the same font, background color, outline border, etc. Here are some more cool features: - Add a drawing element to your widget and turn it into a sticky note. Tapping on it on your homescreen will let you draw on it! - Add buttons to your widgets to open websites or run shortcuts. - Add picture slideshows and have the pictures change every minute. - Health charts: display your heart rate, activity, walk distance and many more health data points in our fully customisable health charts to see how your body is doing. (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app)
Widget Custom HomeScreen
Personalize your iPhone or iPad with custom themes, icons, and widgets. Transform your home screen with aesthetic wallpapers and unique styles. Integrates with the Health app for fitness tracking widgets.
- Customizable widgets (small, medium, large)
- Icon packs for custom shortcuts
- Themed colors, fonts, and styles
- 500+ 4K & HD Live wallpapers
- Health app integration for fitness widgets
- Step-by-step guides for setup
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Make your iPhone or iPad look exactly the way you want it. Widget Custom HomeScreen is the all-in-one personalization app for iPhone and iPad — with 5,000+ icons, 500+ themes, animated widgets, full Lock Screen customization, and a library of 500+ 4K live wallpapers. Whether your style is minimal and clean, bold and colorful, or aesthetic and moody, you'll find a theme that feels like you. - WHAT'S INSIDE Widgets • Animated & static widgets — small, medium, and large • Lock Screen widgets (iOS 16 and above) • Health widgets — step count, move ring, exercise & stand from Apple Health Icons & Themes • 5,000+ custom icons, applied through the native iOS Shortcuts app • 500+ complete themes — each includes matching icons, wallpapers & widgets • Icon styles that complement iOS 26's Default, Dark, Tinted & Clear modes Wallpapers • 500+ 4K & HD live wallpapers • Aesthetic collections updated regularly - HOW IT WORKS Browse themes, tap one you love, and follow the simple step-by-step setup guide. Your Home Screen and Lock Screen transform in minutes. Icons work through iOS Shortcuts — no jailbreak or third-party tools required. - HEALTH & FITNESS WIDGETS Connect Widget Custom HomeScreen to Apple Health to show your daily step count, move ring, exercise minutes, and stand progress directly on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Compatible with all iPhones and iPads running iOS 14 or later. SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS • Monthly: $9.99/month — includes a 3-day free trial • Yearly: $29.99/year Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase confirmation and renews automatically. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings at least 24 hours before the next renewal date. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when upgrading to a paid plan. Privacy Policy: https://widgetsapp.net/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://widgetsapp.net/terms-of-use.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Have a feature request or need help? We'd love to hear from you: https://support.widgetsapp.net/support/tickets/new
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Widget Custom HomeScreen at Free against Flex Widgets's $2.99. Widget Custom HomeScreen also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 98). Flex Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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
Widget Custom HomeScreen is free to download; Flex Widgets costs $2.99 up front. Widget Custom HomeScreen sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Flex Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.
Widget Custom HomeScreen holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Custom HomeScreen has 2.8K ratings behind it against 98, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 39% of Flex Widgets's written reviews are positive against 26% of Widget Custom HomeScreen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, Widget Custom HomeScreen monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flex Widgets | Widget Custom HomeScreen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (98 ratings) | 4.1 (2.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.7% of reviews — better | 26.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 98 | 2.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 214 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yannik Schrade | GREEN DYGITAL CONSULTING LLP |
Customer experience
Flex Widgets
Widget Custom HomeScreen
Bugs and requests
Flex Widgets
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Widget Custom HomeScreen
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widgets not saving properly
- App icons not working as expected
- Frequent crashes and freezes
Requested features
3 requests- More free widget options
- Improved organization and search
- Halloween and Christmas themed widgets
In-app purchases
Flex Widgets
No in-app purchases
Widget Custom HomeScreen
- Widget CustomHomeScreen:weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Widget Custom HomeScreen: PRO3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Widget$29.991 Year
- Buy any one theme or icon pack$4.99
- Limited Time Special Offer$9.99
- Widget App Lifetime Offer$19.99
Questions
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