Comparison

Flex Widgets vs Mindflowy Notes

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

Mindflowy Notes

Features
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Mindflowy — Your Personal Stream of Consciousness Build a home for your ideas, memories, and everything you don’t want to forget. Mindflowy is a space for your random thoughts, favorite links, moments of gratitude, and meaningful quotes — all organized in a beautiful feed that feels like social media, but it’s entirely your own. A feed for your mind Capture thoughts as they come — short, quick, and spontaneous. Write freely, without overthinking, just like posting online — except this time, it’s private and personal. Familiar, yet deeply personal Mindflowy looks and feels like a social feed, making it more welcoming than traditional notes apps. Your ideas, your pace, your world — in one continuous stream. Organize effortlessly - Add tags for easy sorting - Create smart, dynamically updating collections - Browse with a gallery view - Automatically link posts to your calendar events Your thoughts deserve a better home From racing ideas to quiet reflections — keep them all in one place you’ll actually want to scroll. Private and secure Mindflowy stores your data safely using iCloud sync. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Flex Widgets4 screens
Mindflowy Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Mindflowy Notes at Free against Flex Widgets's $2.99. Mindflowy Notes also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 11 days). Flex Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). 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

Mindflowy Notes is free to download; Flex Widgets costs $2.99 up front. Mindflowy Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Flex Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, Mindflowy Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Flex Widgets versus Mindflowy Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlex WidgetsMindflowy Notes
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.7 (98 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews38.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings98 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYannik SchradeAdam Kovacs

In-app purchases

None

Flex Widgets

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Mindflowy Notes

Subscriptions2
  • MindFeed Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • MindFeed Pro - Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • MindFeed Pro - Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Flex Widgets free?
Flex Widgets costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mindflowy Notes free?
Mindflowy Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flex Widgets or Mindflowy Notes have ads?
Neither Flex Widgets nor Mindflowy Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flex Widgets or Mindflowy Notes?
Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, and Mindflowy Notes every 3 days. Most recently, Flex Widgets was updated on November 3, 2026 and Mindflowy Notes on October 30, 2026.

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