Flex Widgets vs Lavapup
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)
Lavapup
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A calendar you'll actually want to write in. One tap to jot it down. Tap a day, write a line, and it's saved. Need a time? Just type 0930Coffee. Want a reminder? Type @0900. No pop-ups, no checkboxes to wade through — the fewer the steps, the more you'll write down. A tap to add color. Pick a color as you type. Sort plans, to-dos, and the things that matter — or however you like — and tell them apart in an instant. Your whole week, in view. Every day's plans appear right on the month view. What's on this week, what's coming next — no need to open each day. It's all there in front of you. Plan ahead, and look back. A calendar isn't only about what's next. Note what you did today, too, and looking back later, you'll see exactly where your time went — no week feels wasted. Details, only when you need them. A few words are usually enough: Meeting, Car wash, 0730Flight. The rest waits quietly in the day's details, ready when you are. Heading out? Pin it to a Lock Screen Live Activity or a Home Screen widget — gate, seat, boarding time, right there on your screen, without opening the app again and again. Weather, right in your calendar. Each day's weather sits in that day. Need an umbrella tomorrow? You'll know at a glance. Notes, the way they should be. Tap where you want to edit, and the cursor lands right there — it won't drop you at the end. Photos are kept at full resolution, never compressed. Everything stays on your device, syncs through your own iCloud, and works offline. Bulk entry, with a little help from AI. A sentence, or a photo of a class schedule or a list — pair it with the prompt Lavapup writes for you, hand it to your favorite AI, and import the result in one tap. A month of bills, a whole semester of classes, or one note split into many — the complex, repetitive stuff takes minutes. Yours, always. Lavapup works on iPhone and iPad, with a Mac version on the way. Export and import everything as JSON, anytime, and take it anywhere. Built by one person, to be a tool that's handy and quietly elegant. ——— Terms of Use (EULA): https://legal.lavapup.com/app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lavapup at Free against Flex Widgets's $2.99. Flex Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 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
Lavapup is free to download; Flex Widgets costs $2.99 up front. Lavapup sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Flex Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flex Widgets ships an update every 11 days, Lavapup every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flex Widgets | Lavapup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (98 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 38.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 98 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yannik Schrade | 伟 洪 |
In-app purchases
Flex Widgets
No in-app purchases
Lavapup
- Lavapup Plus Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month









