Comparison

Flex Widgets vs Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark

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

Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark

A unified browser and history manager for Apple devices. It offers smart bookmark collections, tags, notes, and automations to organize browsing across multiple platforms. Ideal for both casual users and professionals needing to manage research and debug web applications.

Highlights
  • Unified multi-browser history
  • Smart bookmark collections
  • Tags, notes, and reminders
  • Web Inspector and Network Monitor
  • Automated Web Triggers
  • Dedicated browsing workspaces
  • Media Viewer
Features
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Surfed is a browser and unified history + bookmark manager for iOS, macOS, and visionOS that keeps a global, multi-browser history with smart bookmark collections, tags, notes, and reminders synced across devices. Search any session with powerful filters across all the context Surfed captures, then save those queries as personal, self-updating smart bookmark lists that surface the right pages at the right moment. The browser includes a built-in Web Inspector, Network Monitor, HTML Playground, JavaScript Console, and Web Triggers automations that run as you browse and can be built from extensive actions or installed from a gallery—so casual readers, normal users, and everyday browsers get a friendly UI while researchers, students, and professionals can organize knowledge and debug complex web apps. ### A Browser for Every Workflow - Create dedicated browsing workspaces with unique profiles, search engines, and automations for each context. - Use the Media Viewer to surface every image, video, and audio asset found on the current page. - Open a split browser view to compare sources or multitask across two sites at once. - Use the enhanced download manager with Live Activities, URL clean-up tools, and Share Sheet support. - Extend Surfed’s features directly inside Safari with the Surfed Safari extension for quick history, bookmarks, and automations. ### Smart Bookmark & History Manager - Keep a complete history of all your browsers across iOS, macOS, and visionOS that is fully searchable. - Build dynamic collections, reminders, and saved searches that update automatically as you browse. - Tag everything, track time-on-page, surface statistics, and protect sensitive sessions. ### Made for Power Users & Developers - Inspect layouts, watch network calls, test snippets, or prototype ideas inside the HTML Playground without leaving the page. - Edit source code live with Web Inspector + HTML Playground to test changes. - Automate repetitive steps with Web Triggers, Shortcut Actions, and JavaScript or AI-generated code—there are actions for everything. - Build browsing automations that trigger as you surf, either by composing your own Web Triggers from the extensive action catalog or installing prebuilt recipes from the gallery. - Customize search engines, clean URLs in one tap. ### Organize Research, Work, and Study - Capture ideas with notes, website tags, and Spaces dedicated to each project. - Attach Markdown notes to individual webpages and jot down per-Space notes to track decisions and next steps. - Turn history into personalized research dashboards that stay in sync across devices. - Listen Later and Read Later queues keep long-form content accessible whether you are commuting or studying. - Capture and annotate articles with Markup Mode, then share them using tons of built-in browser actions or Shortcuts workflows. ### Optional AI Assistance - Ask questions about your current browsing session or a single webpage inside the AI Chat to extract the answers you need. - Let AI tagging classify websites automatically so your collections stay organized. - Summarize long-form articles with one tap to save time during research or study. ### Privacy-First Sync - Your browsing data lives only on your devices and is protected with Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode. - Surfed does not collect analytics or diagnostics. Sync happens via secure, native Apple services. In-app purchases unlock Surfed Pro features on iOS, macOS, and visionOS. App Privacy: All browsing history is stored locally on your device and cannot be viewed by anyone else, including us. We do not collect analytics or diagnostic data. Follow @surfedapp on X and @Surfed@indieapps.space on Mastodon for updates. Privacy Policy: http://surfed.app/privacy.html Terms of Service: http://surfed.app/terms.html

Screenshots

Flex Widgets4 screens
Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Flex Widgets at $2.99 against Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark's $17.99. Flex Widgets also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark's advantage is chart position (#170 vs unranked) and device support (5 vs 3). On review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Flex Widgets costs $2.99 and Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark $17.99 up front. Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Flex Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flex Widgets holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flex Widgets has 98 ratings behind it against 2, 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 33% of Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Flex Widgets versus Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlex WidgetsSurfed Pro Browser & Bookmark
Price$2.99 — better$17.99
Rating3.7 (98 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews38.7% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings98 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#170 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB51 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperYannik SchradeHOsy - intelligent software.

Customer experience

Flex Widgets

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

Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Flex Widgets

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$8.99
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  • Ultra Tip$44.99

Questions

Is Flex Widgets free?
Flex Widgets costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark free?
Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark costs $17.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flex Widgets or Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark?
Flex Widgets is rated higher. Flex Widgets averages 3.7 out of 5 from 98 ratings, while Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Flex Widgets or Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark have ads?
Neither Flex Widgets nor Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flex Widgets or Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark?
Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, and Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark every 2 months. Most recently, Flex Widgets was updated on October 16, 2026 and Surfed Pro Browser & Bookmark on October 7, 2026.

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