Hue Widgets vs Simplify Fractions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hue Widgets
Control your smart lights directly from your Home Screen with custom widgets. Quickly access favorite scenes, turn lights on/off by room or home, and manage all your lighting with ease. Offers a free trial with limited rooms, with an option to unlock unlimited access via a one-time purchase.
- Home Screen widgets
- Quick access to Hue scenes
- Turn lights on/off by room
- Control entire home lighting
- Configurable widgets
- VoiceOver accessibility
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Control your lights from your Home Screen. With Hue Widgets, you can add widgets to your Home Screen that give you super quick access to your favorite Hue scenes. You can add actions to turn on or off all lights in a room or in your entire home. Controlling your Hue lights has never been easier! Widgets can be configured with ease from within the app. You can add as many widgets to your Home Screen as you like. Hue Widgets is free to try. You can create widgets for a single room or group, giving you a taste of the full Hue Widgets experience without any cost. Unlock the full, unlimited version with a one-time in-app purchase to access all rooms and groups. From the beginning this app was developed with accessibility in mind. All features can be accessed using VoiceOver. Hue Widgets works on your local network. A Hue Bridge (v2) is required to connect with your lights.
Simplify Fractions
This utility app reduces various types of fractions, including mixed numbers, to their simplest form. It handles both proper and improper fractions, making it a comprehensive tool for fraction simplification.
- Simplifies fractions
- Simplifies mixed numbers
- Handles proper fractions
- Handles improper fractions
- Reduces to simplest form
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This app can not only simplify fractions, but it can also simplify mixed numbers (mixed fractions). It can calculate and simplify both proper and improper fractions. In other words, the Simplify Fractions App is the only app you will ever need to reduce any kind of fraction to its simplest form possible.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hue Widgets at Free against Simplify Fractions's $0.99. Hue Widgets also leads on review sentiment (44% vs 0%) and ads (none vs shown). Simplify Fractions's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On device support and iOS requirement 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
Hue Widgets is free to download; Simplify Fractions costs $0.99 up front. Hue Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simplify Fractions asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simplify Fractions holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hue Widgets has 25 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Hue Widgets's written reviews are positive against 0% of Simplify Fractions's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hue Widgets ships an update every 3 months, Simplify Fractions every 26 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hue Widgets | Simplify Fractions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (25 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 26 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pim Nijman | H Valeur |
Customer experience
Hue Widgets
Simplify Fractions
In-app purchases
Hue Widgets
- Full Version$1.99
Simplify Fractions
No in-app purchases
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