Comparison

Flex Widgets vs Anybox

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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)

About

Anybox

Save, organize, and quickly access your web links, files, and notes across all your Apple devices. Features include nested tags, smart lists, and a system-wide share extension for seamless saving. Syncs via iCloud and offers a lifetime purchase option.

Highlights
  • Cross-device bookmark syncing
  • Spotlight search for bookmarks
  • Quick link and note input
  • Nested tags and folders
  • Smart Lists for auto-organization
  • Support for images and files
  • System-wide share extension
Features
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# Features 1. Get your bookmarks on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. 2. Search your bookmarks with Spotlight. 3. Use Anybox keyboard to quickly input your frequently used links and notes. 4. Categorize bookmarks with nested tags and folders. 5. Create Smart Lists to automatically organize bookmarks with attributes like URL and added date. 6. Support images, files, and notes. Easily retrieve frequently used images and notes. 7. Track your reading list with Widgets. Or save clipboard to specified collections. 8. Save links with system-wide share extensions. Just native experience. 9. Sync via iCloud. No personal data collected. 10. Import your bookmarks from browsers or other third-party apps. Anybox offers lifetime plan and subscription plans as a universal purchase, which means you only need to purchase once for all the platforms (iOS/macOS/iPadOS) Anybox support. You can choose one of these plans to save unlimited items in the app. Privacy Policy: https://anybox.app/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://anybox.app/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Flex Widgets4 screens
Anybox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Anybox at Free against Flex Widgets's $2.99. Anybox also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (65% vs 39%). Flex Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 weeks). On ads 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

Anybox is free to download; Flex Widgets costs $2.99 up front. Anybox sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Flex Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Anybox holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Anybox has 524 ratings behind it against 98, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Flex Widgets's written reviews are positive against 65% of Anybox's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, Anybox every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Flex Widgets versus Anybox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlex WidgetsAnybox
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.7 (98 ratings)4.7 (524 ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.7% of reviews64.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings98524 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYannik SchradeAnybox LTD

Customer experience

Flex Widgets

All ratings98 ratings
Positive64.3%
Neutral8.2%
Negative27.6%
Written reviews124 reviews
Positive38.7%
Neutral13.7%
Negative47.6%

Anybox

All ratings523 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral11.3%
Negative24.1%

Bugs and requests

Flex Widgets

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Anybox

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent behavior with reader mode
  • Issues with bookmark syncing

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to manually add links
  • Improve duplicate detection
  • Allow sorting of tags/folders
  • Implement private bookmark folders

In-app purchases

None

Flex Widgets

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Anybox

Subscriptions2
  • 1 month$1.991 Month
  • 12 months$14.991 Year
One-time5
  • Chips-Sized Tip$1.99
  • Coffee-Sized Tip$4.99
  • Pizza-Sized Tip$9.99
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  • Lifetime$39.99
  • Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Flex Widgets free?
Flex Widgets costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anybox free?
Anybox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Flex Widgets or Anybox?
Anybox is rated higher. Flex Widgets averages 3.7 out of 5 from 98 ratings, while Anybox averages 4.7 from 524 ratings.
Do Flex Widgets or Anybox have ads?
Neither Flex Widgets nor Anybox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flex Widgets or Anybox?
Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, and Anybox every 5 weeks. Most recently, Flex Widgets was updated on October 27, 2026 and Anybox on October 25, 2026.

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