Prolab Smart vs Any Text · Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prolab Smart
This app allows you to remotely control and manage your smart home devices from anywhere. It offers features like simultaneous control of multiple devices, scheduling timers, and easy device sharing with family members. Setup is designed to be quick and straightforward.
- Remote device control
- Simultaneous multi-device management
- Customizable timers
- Family device sharing
- Plug and play setup
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Prolab Smart, Everything Smart, All controlled in your hand for smart living 1. Remote control: control smart home products from anywhere 2. Simultaneously control: control multiple devices with one App 3. Timer: set timer to perform multiple functions 4. Device sharing: One tap to share devices among family members 5. Plug & Play: easily and quickly connect App to devices
Any Text · Widgets
Display any text on your Lock or Home Screen to keep important notes, goals, or tasks visible. Customize text with Markdown and utilize 20 different widgets. Integrates with Shortcuts for powerful automations and syncs across devices via iCloud.
- Customizable text widgets
- Lock Screen and Home Screen support
- Markdown styling (bold, italic, strikethrough)
- Live Activity and StandBy support
- iCloud device syncing
- Shortcuts app integration
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Put any kind of text on your Lock Screen or Home Screen so you won't miss it. It could be an important note, your goal, a list of tasks, etc. It also supports Live Activity and StandBy. The app includes 20 widgets that lets you put different text on different Lock Screen configurations or Home Screen. You can style parts of the text bold, italic, or strikethrough using Markdown. Syncs seamlessly across your devices with iCloud. Simply tap the widget to open the app to edit the text. ■ Shortcuts The app is scriptable through the Shortcuts app, enabling a lot of powerful use-cases. For example, you could use an automation to change the text at a certain point in the day or at certain places. The only limit is your creativity. ■ Support You can contact me through the feedback button in the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Prolab Smart at Free against Any Text · Widgets's $4.00. Prolab Smart also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). Any Text · Widgets's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 20 months) and ratings volume (450 vs 27). On rating, 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
Prolab Smart is free to download; Any Text · Widgets costs $4.00 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Prolab Smart against 4.6 for Any Text · Widgets. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Any Text · Widgets has 450 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Prolab Smart ships an update every 20 months, Any Text · Widgets every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 10, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prolab Smart | Any Text · Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.00 |
| Rating | 4.6 (27 ratings) | 4.6 (450 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 81.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 450 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #47 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 187 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PROLAB SECURITY TRADING LLC | Sindre Sorhus |
Customer experience
Prolab Smart
Any Text · Widgets
Bugs and requests
Prolab Smart
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Any Text · Widgets
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widget not showing on Lock Screen
- Text not updating in a timely manner
- Force show when locked doesn't work
Requested features
6 requests- Allow alternating/rotating text
- Add custom font support
- Provide full-width widget options
- Add custom widget background colors
- Enable editing widgets directly
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- Add Apple Watch widget support
In-app purchases
Prolab Smart
No in-app purchases
Any Text · Widgets
No in-app purchases
