Comparison

Widgetify vs Simple Widgets

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

Head to head
About

Widgetify

Personalize your device's home screen with custom widgets. Display photos, date, time, and alarms with extensive customization options, including image intervals, battery indicators, and camera integration.

Highlights
  • Custom photo widgets
  • Alarm and countdown widgets
  • Multiple image intervals
  • Battery indicators
  • Camera background setting
  • Photo editing and arrangement
  • Font style customization
Features
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Personalize your home screen with beautiful photos, date/time, alarm/countdown widgets with full customization. Key Features - Add multiple images with custom interval - Add battery indicators - Add alarms with notifications - Edit, crop and arrange order of images - Quickly set the widget background using your camera - Customize photos in the background with blur effect or choose your own colors - Change font style

About

Simple Widgets

Personalize your home and lock screens with customizable widgets. Choose from various sizes and styles, including different backgrounds, font colors, and borders. Easily edit existing widgets to change their appearance.

Highlights
  • Customizable widget types
  • Small, Medium, Large, and Lock Screen widgets
  • Background and font color customization
  • Border customization
  • Edit existing widget appearance
Features
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Simple Widgets • Photo makes it super easy to customize your home and lock screen like never before. Customize every widget, and personalize your home and lock screen. Features: • Create different types of widgets. • Small, Medium, Large, and lock screen widgets, all customizable. • Customize the added widget with different backgrounds, font colors, borders, etc. • Edit the added widgets to a different appearance. ——— FEEDBACK ——— Have any suggestions? Feel free to contact us at joezhang176776005@gmail.com Term of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://zhangkaigogo.github.io/Widgets/

Screenshots

Widgetify4 screens
Simple Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

Widgetify and Simple Widgets both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Simple Widgets's written reviews are positive against 38% of Widgetify's. Widgetify's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price, rating and update cadence 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. Simple Widgets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Widgetify asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Widgetify against 4.4 for Simple Widgets. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widgetify has 96 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 38% of Widgetify's written reviews are positive against 100% of Simple Widgets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Widgetify versus Simple Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidgetifySimple Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (96 ratings) — better4.4 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings96 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRambax, LLCWuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd

Customer experience

Widgetify

All ratings96 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral5.2%
Negative10.4%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral18.8%
Negative43.8%

Simple Widgets

All ratings19 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Widgetify

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Simple Widgets

Subscriptions2
  • Widget Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • Widget Premium (Annual)$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Widgetify free?
Widgetify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Widgets free?
Simple Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Widgetify or Simple Widgets?
Widgetify is rated higher. Widgetify averages 4.5 out of 5 from 96 ratings, while Simple Widgets averages 4.4 from 19 ratings.
Do Widgetify or Simple Widgets have ads?
Simple Widgets shows ads; Widgetify does not.
Which is updated more often, Widgetify or Simple Widgets?
Widgetify ships an update every 5 days, and Simple Widgets every 5 days. Most recently, Widgetify was updated on October 18, 2026 and Simple Widgets on October 7, 2026.

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