PicWidget vs Smart Photo Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PicWidget
Display beautiful pictures directly on your home screen with customizable widgets. Images can be fetched using search terms and are sourced from Pexels and Pixabay.
- Home screen photo widgets
- Customizable with search terms
- Images from Pexels
- Images from Pixabay
- Supports Mac, iPhone, and iPad
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PicWidget is a simple widget app that allows you to show beautiful pictures on your home screen. The widget can be configured with e.g. a search term. Images are currently fetched from Pexels and Pixabay.
Smart Photo Widget
This app automatically frames and displays your photos in widgets, eliminating manual cropping. Its AI handles framing, filtering, and rotation, offering options to skip unwanted images and add overlays like dates or frames.
- Automatic photo framing for all widget sizes
- AI-powered cropping and selection
- Option to skip blurry or dark photos
- Rotates best photos throughout the day
- Add date, time, or location overlays
- Apply photo effects and filters (Premium)
- Add picture frames
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Smart Photo Widget is the best photo widget on the App Store, and the last one you'll ever need. It uses advanced AI to do all of your work for you, making it the simplest, easiest to use photo widget app out there. There are two types of results you'll get from all of the other photo widget apps: 1. You end up with poorly framed photos with your loved one's head missing. 2. You have to painstakingly choose and crop each photo to make sure it displays properly in each widget size. Using Smart Photo Widget, simply choose a photo folder and install the widget and you're done. Smart Photo Widget's advanced AI does all of the work for you: 1. Properly frames each photo in every widget size automatically! 2. Options to skip bad photos (blurry, too dark, screenshots, etc.). 3. Rotates the best photos throughout the day. 4. Optionally add handy overlays like current weekday/date/time or show the photo's date and location. 5. Apply photo effects/filters to make your photos pop (Smart Photo Premium required). 6. Optionally add picture frames for some whimsy in your widgets. Give Smart Photo Widget a try and see that it really is the easiest to use photo widget app on the App Store by far. Smart Photo Widget is free to download and use. Within the app you can purchase Smart Photo Premium which allows you to have unlimited photo collections and adds features like photo effects. If you purchase a Premium subscription, it will be applied to your iTunes account at the end of the free trial. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime within your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. The privacy policy for this app is located here: https://www.cromulentlabs.com/smart-photo-widget/privacy/ The terms of use for this app are the standard Apple terms located here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Smart Photo Widget at 48% against PicWidget's 0%. Smart Photo Widget also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 37 months). PicWidget's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). 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
Smart Photo Widget is free to download; PicWidget costs $0.99 up front. Smart Photo Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. PicWidget asks for nothing beyond the download.
PicWidget ships an update every 37 months, Smart Photo Widget every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PicWidget | Smart Photo Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.6 (91 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 48.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 91 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 37 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ser.soft GmbH | Cromulent Labs |
Customer experience
PicWidget
Smart Photo Widget
In-app purchases
PicWidget
No in-app purchases
Smart Photo Widget
- Smart Photo Premium Yearly14 Days trial$2.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$14.99
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