Comparison

Custom Widget Creator vs Screenmade

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

Head to head
About

Custom Widget Creator

Design personalized widgets for your device's home screen. Add elements like the time, date, custom text, images, and RSS feeds. Choose from a library of pre-built widgets or customize every aspect of your own.

Highlights
  • Create custom widgets
  • Add time and date
  • Include RSS feeds
  • Use custom text and images
  • Customize fonts and colors
  • Add battery indicator
  • Pre-built widget collection
Features
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It lets you create custom widgets by adding time, date, RSS feeds, custom text, custom images and more. They can be customised as you like! The app also includes a free prebuilt widgets collection which you can add to your widgets library. You can customise: - Date; - Time; - Background Color; - Background Image; - Font size, many font families and colors; - Border; - Battery indicator, position, orientation and color; - Custom text; - RSS feed.

About

Screenmade

Personalize your iPhone and iPad screens with a wide array of customizable widgets for Home, Lock, StandBy, and CarPlay. Create unique wallpapers and add interactive elements to your device.

Highlights
  • 30+ customizable widgets
  • Generative wallpaper engine
  • Home, Lock, StandBy, CarPlay support
  • Interactive widgets (games, trackers)
  • Customizable colors, fonts, layouts
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Make every screen yours - Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and CarPlay. Screenmade is a widget studio packed with 30+ beautiful, fully customizable widgets and a generative wallpaper engine to match. Pick a widget and make it yours: choose colors, fonts, backgrounds, and layouts until it fits your screen perfectly. FOUR SURFACES, ONE STYLE • Home Screen - small, medium, large, and extra-large widgets • Lock Screen - inline, circular, and rectangular widgets • StandBy - oversized, glanceable widgets made to read across the room, including a calm night mode • CarPlay - widgets made for car lovers TAP TO PLAY Some widgets do more than sit there. Play songs on the Piano, tap out grooves on the Drum Pad, pop a sheet of Bubble Wrap, log a glass on the Water Tracker, shake the Fortune Ball, or feed your Virtual Pet - with real sound, right from the widget. Check off habits and groceries, or launch an app or contact in a single tap. No need to open the app. MAKE IT YOURS • Background styles like Tinted, Solid, Mesh, Radial, Duotone, and Gloss • A curated color palette plus custom colors, and a set of typefaces (rounded, serif, modern, italic, mono) • Hand-tuned presets for every widget, so you can start from a look you love and make it your own GENERATIVE WALLPAPERS Create one-of-a-kind wallpapers with a library of art engines - Mesh, Marble, Stripes, Bauhaus, Topographic, Bokeh, Northern Lights, and more - in tones that match your vibe. Export for any iPhone or iPad. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Turn on optional iCloud sync to carry your widget setups between iPhone and iPad. Your photos stay on your device. Free to download. Built for iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Custom Widget Creator4 screens
Screenmade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Screenmade at 4.7 against Custom Widget Creator's 3.0. Screenmade also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). Custom Widget Creator's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Screenmade holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Custom Widget Creator ships an update monthly, Screenmade every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Custom Widget Creator versus Screenmade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCustom Widget CreatorScreenmade
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (3 ratings)4.7 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGENOVA SoftworksSmartMood LLC

Customer experience

Custom Widget Creator

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

Screenmade

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Custom Widget Creator

No in-app purchases

None

Screenmade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Custom Widget Creator free?
Custom Widget Creator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Screenmade free?
Screenmade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Custom Widget Creator or Screenmade?
Screenmade is rated higher. Custom Widget Creator averages 3.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Screenmade averages 4.7 from 9 ratings.
Do Custom Widget Creator or Screenmade have ads?
Neither Custom Widget Creator nor Screenmade shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Custom Widget Creator or Screenmade?
Custom Widget Creator ships an update monthly, and Screenmade every 5 days. Most recently, Custom Widget Creator was updated on October 1, 2026 and Screenmade on September 22, 2026.

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