Comparison

Flex Widgets vs Dumbify

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

Dumbify

This minimalist launcher for iPhone declutters your home screen to help reduce screen time. It allows you to select and display only your most important apps in a clean, text-based interface, reclaiming your time and simplifying your digital life.

Highlights
  • Minimalist home screen launcher
  • Reduces screen time
  • Customizable app selection
  • Clean, text-based interface
  • Supports dark and light mode
Currently charting
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Dumbify is a minimalist home screen launcher for iPhone. Dumbify helps you keep screen time down by keeping your home screen clean and clear of notifications. Our minimalist home screen launcher is fully customizable. Dumbify allows you to select the apps that are most important to you, and displays them in a clean minimalist launcher on your home screen. The minimalist launcher for iPhone works perfectly with dark or light mode, so you can pick what looks best to you. This text based minimalist launcher lets you reclaim your most valuable asset, your time! Stop spending hours of your precious time getting distracted by your phone, and let Dumbify, a launcher exclusively for iPhone, simplify your digital life.

Screenshots

Flex Widgets4 screens
Dumbify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Flex Widgets at 3.7 against Dumbify's 3.0. Flex Widgets also leads on price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and device support (3 vs 1). Dumbify's advantage is chart position (#28 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 Dumbify $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flex Widgets holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 98 and 207 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 39% of Flex Widgets's written reviews are positive against 46% of Dumbify's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, Dumbify every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Flex Widgets versus Dumbify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlex WidgetsDumbify
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating3.7 (98 ratings) — better3.0 (207 ratings)
Positive reviews38.7% of reviews46.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings98207 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#28 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYannik SchradeAB Apps Inc.

Customer experience

Flex Widgets

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

Dumbify

All ratings207 ratings
Positive45.9%
Neutral10.1%
Negative44.0%
Written reviews254 reviews
Positive46.5%
Neutral9.4%
Negative44.1%

Bugs and requests

Flex Widgets

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Dumbify

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Issues with widget not displaying app list properly
  • Settings app not launching to main page
  • Occasional crashes or freezes

Requested features

4 requests
  • More widget size and layout options
  • Ability to customize background and font styles
  • Seamless app launching without shortcuts
  • Integration with more popular apps

In-app purchases

None

Flex Widgets

No in-app purchases

None

Dumbify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flex Widgets free?
Flex Widgets costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dumbify free?
Dumbify costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flex Widgets or Dumbify?
Flex Widgets is rated higher. Flex Widgets averages 3.7 out of 5 from 98 ratings, while Dumbify averages 3.0 from 207 ratings.
Do Flex Widgets or Dumbify have ads?
Neither Flex Widgets nor Dumbify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flex Widgets or Dumbify?
Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, and Dumbify every 6 days. Most recently, Flex Widgets was updated on September 25, 2026 and Dumbify on September 24, 2026.

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