Comparison

Widgetgram vs Speakies Explainer Maker

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

Head to head
About

Widgetgram

Share live photos and notes with friends and family directly on your home screen. Instantly see updates from loved ones and send surprise photos that reveal their full image with a tap. Customize widgets with weather, time, and countdowns for important events.

Highlights
  • Live photo sharing on home screen
  • Instant notifications for new photos
  • Surprise photo reveals
  • Customizable widgets (weather, time, countdowns)
  • Private sharing with friends and family
  • Create photo albums
Features
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Live pictures from your family and friends on your home screen! Widgetgram is the always on glimpse into the lives of the people your care about. When your friends send you a picture or note, it instantly appears as a notification, and gets added to your home screen widget rotation. Send your photos as surprises, where the full image is only revealed with a tap!  Custom frames, messages, the weather, time, and date countdowns. Life's latest events, photos from your family and friends, pictures from your favorite follows, and photos you add from your own library are with you all day every day on your home screen with Widgetgram and our powerful suite of widgets. Access your Widgetgram widgets on all your devices! Add your friends and family on Photo Widgetgram, share your photos privately and individually with them, and see them on your home screen every time you unlock your phone or tablet. The latest photos and notes from your family and friends also get delivered as notifications so you can see all of them in your notification center. You can also send photos to all of your followers, along with following your favorite accounts, and see the latest right on your home screen. Add the weather conditions and forecast for any location on earth, sunrise and sunset times, the current time for any location, and your own personalized countdowns for your big events. Create albums of your favorite pictures from your device or from your friends and add a widget just for those photos (or photo) on your home screen. Add as many Widgetgram widgets as you want, set when you want them to refresh, and pick whether you want them to display all your Photo Widgetgram photos, photos from your favorite friends, your own photos, photos from a single friend or family member, or photos from an album. Terms and conditions: https://widgetgram.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://widgetgram.com/privacy

About

Speakies Explainer Maker

Easily create compelling explainer videos with voiceover directly on your mobile device. Simply add pictures, record audio for each, and generate a professional-looking video without prior editing experience.

Highlights
  • Create explainer videos with voiceover
  • Add pictures from your photo library
  • Record audio for each picture
  • Generate video with a single tap
  • No video editing experience required
  • Works online or offline
Features
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Do you sometimes need to explain something to others, and you know the ideal way is make an explainer video - then you think of spending all that time and effort - and so you decide not to do it? With Speakies Explainer Maker, doing that is a breeze. This app is the most easy, versatile, and nimble way to create effective video explainers with voiceover. In fact, some call it magical - 1- snap some pics and import them from Photos app! 2- record something about each picture! 3 - tap Generate Video and Speakies does the rest! Your explainers are unique, expert, and compelling. Who else can explain your product better than you? Speakies app makes it really simple to create explainers in the moment as you need them. You can create right on your own mobile device, whether online or off, and your product always looks and feels right. No sign in, no cloud servers, no spinning wheels. And no video editing experience required. Speakies adapt to any size and format so they look right out of the box. How is Speakies different from other video editing platforms? Rather than requiring a continuous narration, it enables you to add voiceover to each individual picture. Then you can easily tweak it, redo it, or edit it - and with a tap you can generate a single great video explainer. Speakies is the quickest way for busy people to produce explainers on the fly - app makers, teachers, laborers, marketers, doctors - anyone who wants to get things done and not have to repeat themselves. No need to fuss or spend hours with complicated video platforms.. Speakies has all the tools you need at hand whenever life takes you.

Screenshots

Widgetgram4 screens
Speakies Explainer Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Speakies Explainer Maker at none against Widgetgram's 5. Speakies Explainer Maker also leads on ads (none vs shown). Widgetgram's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 22 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Widgetgram sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Speakies Explainer Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Widgetgram against 4.3 for Speakies Explainer Maker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widgetgram ships an update fortnightly, Speakies Explainer Maker every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Widgetgram versus Speakies Explainer Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidgetgramSpeakies Explainer Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (13 ratings)4.3 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better6
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 22 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStatus Recap, LLCHealthBook LLC

Customer experience

Widgetgram

All ratings13 ratings
Positive69.2%
Neutral15.4%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Speakies Explainer Maker

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Widgetgram

Subscriptions4
  • Basic Monthly$0.491 Month
  • Platinum Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Basic Annual$5.491 Year
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  • Platinum Annual$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Single Friend Widget Feature$3.99
None

Speakies Explainer Maker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Widgetgram free?
Widgetgram is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Speakies Explainer Maker free?
Speakies Explainer Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Widgetgram or Speakies Explainer Maker?
Speakies Explainer Maker is rated higher. Widgetgram averages 4.2 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Speakies Explainer Maker averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Widgetgram or Speakies Explainer Maker have ads?
Widgetgram shows ads; Speakies Explainer Maker does not.
Which is updated more often, Widgetgram or Speakies Explainer Maker?
Widgetgram ships an update fortnightly, and Speakies Explainer Maker every 22 months. Most recently, Widgetgram was updated on October 18, 2026 and Speakies Explainer Maker on October 8, 2026.

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