Comparison

Godox Light vs WhyNot Widgets

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

Head to head
About

Godox Light

Control Godox lighting devices wirelessly using your mobile phone or tablet. Features visualized setup, scene creation, and collaborative tools for photographers and videographers.

Highlights
  • Wireless Bluetooth control
  • Visualized lighting setup
  • Scene creation (List & Position modes)
  • Collaboration and sharing
  • Lighting tutorials
Features
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Based on Godox mesh Bluetooth technology, it enables control of devices via mobile phones or tablets, supporting visualized lighting setup, sharing, collaboration, and lighting tutorials. ● Quick & Convenient Control – Enhanced operational efficiency ● Tablet & Mobile Phone – Seamless integration between both terminals ● Dual Modes: List & Position – Create scenes based on shooting needs ● Visualized Lighting Control – Control via position map mode ● Collaboration & Tutorials – Via lighting video tutorials, remote control, or scenes sharing

About

WhyNot Widgets

Organize your most-used apps into a single widget for quick access. Customize the appearance and choose from various pre-designed clock and utility widgets to personalize your Home Screen.

Highlights
  • Launch up to nine apps from a single widget
  • Customizable widget styles and layouts
  • Native app icon display
  • Pre-designed analog and digital clock widgets
  • Hand-drawn, artistic widget designs
  • One-time purchase packs for expanded features
Features
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Nine apps. One widget. One tap. WhyNot puts a tiny app drawer on your Home Screen. Pick up to nine apps, choose a style, and every one of them launches with a single tap. No folders to open. Many apps launch straight from the widget, the rest pass through WhyNot for a moment, and the picker tells you which is which. BUILD IT YOUR WAY • Up to nine apps in the smallest widget size. One app or nine, the layout adapts. • Light and Dark show the real app icons, as they look on a light or a dark Home Screen. Mono and Ghost are two quieter looks. • Fill, or anchor the drawer to a corner for a folder-like cluster. • Hold a tile and drag it to rearrange. CLOCKS WITH CHARACTER • Dial: a quiet analog clock inspired by classic industrial design. Small, medium, and a large desk clock with your week laid out underneath. • Flip: a split-flap clock that rolls over on the minute. • Almanac: the month on a card, in Flip's material. Two keys turn the pages, the name brings today back. Free. • Every widget is built for light mode, dark mode, and the Clear look. Pin any widget to always light or always dark, whatever your phone is set to. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT Every widget is drawn by hand, with real shadows, real materials, and one light source. Nothing is a template. Nothing is a screenshot of something else. PACKS (one-time purchases) • Halo: three screens on one large instrument, your wallpaper showing through. Home has the week, what is next and today's steps, Move and Exercise from Health with the goals. Next has the coming events and reminders, with a countdown. Outside has the weather from sunrise to sunset, hour by hour and four days out. The keys switch screens; a slider sets how much wallpaper shows. • Quartz: a desk clock from the nineties, in seven cases from olive to cream. A window for the date, the day or the temperature, numerals in figures or Roman. Tap to open Clock. • Vinyl: your record on a turntable, drawn after the classic Braun deck. The album artwork is the label, the record turns while Apple Music plays, the arm lifts when it stops, and back, play and next work from the widget. Small is the platter, medium is the whole deck. • Tally: a desk calculator from the seventies, on your Home Screen. Every key works. Small for quick sums, large for the whole instrument. Keeps the last result. • Frontpage: your day as a newspaper front page, in the tall widget size that arrived with iOS 27. The next event is the headline, more events and your reminders run in columns, real headlines from a source you choose or your own feed fill the fold, and tomorrow's weather closes the page. Three newspaper typefaces, newsprint grain, pressed type. • Console: your day at a glance. What is next and how long until it, the week ahead, and the sky, one tap apart on the widget. Every block opens Calendar or Weather directly. • Golden: when the light will be good. Golden hour and blue hour for where you are, on one living sky where the sun rises and sets across your Home Screen. The time is lit by the light of the moment. Tap to open the Camera. • WhyNot Pro: Scenes, your drawer set in a place, with the apps that belong there. Glass, the drawer on a frosted panel with your wallpaper showing through. Unlimited drawers, each widget showing a different one. Gradient backgrounds inspired by iPhone finishes or your own two colors. Buy once, keep forever. No subscriptions. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No analytics. Your drawers live on your phone and nowhere else. Console, Golden, Frontpage and Halo use your approximate location for Apple Weather and, if you allow it, your calendars and reminder lists. Halo reads today's Health figures on your phone, only if you allow it. A feed you add is fetched by your phone, not by us. Nothing about you ever reaches us. WhyNot is made by This is E.

Screenshots

Godox Light4 screens
WhyNot Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: WhyNot Widgets at 70% against Godox Light's 13%. WhyNot Widgets also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.4) and update cadence (daily vs every 4 weeks). Godox Light's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. WhyNot Widgets sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Godox Light asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WhyNot Widgets holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WhyNot Widgets has 45 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Godox Light's written reviews are positive against 70% of WhyNot Widgets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Godox Light ships an update every 4 weeks, WhyNot Widgets daily. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Godox Light versus WhyNot Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGodox LightWhyNot Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings)4.0 (45 ratings) — better
Positive reviews13.0% of reviews70.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings545 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGodox Photo Equipment Co.,LtdIskren Georgiev

Customer experience

Godox Light

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive13.0%
Neutral2.6%
Negative84.4%

WhyNot Widgets

All ratings45 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral6.7%
Negative15.6%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive70.5%
Neutral6.8%
Negative22.7%

In-app purchases

None

Godox Light

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

WhyNot Widgets

One-time8
  • Tally$5.99
  • Vinyl$5.99
  • Quartz$5.99
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  • Golden$5.99
  • Frontpage$9.99
  • Halo$9.99
  • WhyNot Pro$9.99
  • Console$9.99

Questions

Is Godox Light free?
Godox Light is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WhyNot Widgets free?
WhyNot Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Godox Light or WhyNot Widgets?
WhyNot Widgets is rated higher. Godox Light averages 3.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while WhyNot Widgets averages 4.0 from 45 ratings.
Do Godox Light or WhyNot Widgets have ads?
Neither Godox Light nor WhyNot Widgets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Godox Light or WhyNot Widgets?
Godox Light ships an update every 4 weeks, and WhyNot Widgets daily. Most recently, Godox Light was updated on October 9, 2026 and WhyNot Widgets on October 15, 2026.

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