Widget Box & shortcuts vs Quick Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Box & shortcuts
Personalize your device's home screen with a vast array of customizable widgets. Create unique designs with your own images, fonts, and color schemes, or select from pre-made templates. Add widgets for time, date, battery, weather, quotes, and more.
- Customizable widget designs
- Pre-made widget templates
- Add pictures to widgets
- Edit widget fonts and colors
- Countdown, date, battery widgets
- Weather and quote widgets
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Color Widgets Box is the only app you need for customizing your home screen! Choose from stunning premade widget designs, or better yet, make your own. Browse through endless options like countdowns, date and battery, weather, quotes, and more. Color Widgets is so easy to use that your favorite widgets can be up and running in seconds. WIDGETS Customize each widget fully. Add pictures to your widgets, edit their font, create your own color-scheme, and so much more! Frequent updates constantly add new widgets you’d love. With Color Widgets, there is no limit to customizing your home screen! Here’s a glimpse of our widgets: ● Time, Date & Battery ● Calendar
Quick Widget
Personalize your iPhone's home and lock screens with custom widgets and wallpapers. Choose from pre-designed options or create your own using an intuitive editor. Explore various widget types to perfectly match your aesthetic.
- Customizable widgets
- Widget editor
- Pre-designed widgets
- Wallpaper discovery
- Multiple widget types
- Home screen personalization
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You can Customize your iPhone with widgets, icons, wallpapers with Quick Widget.Quick Widget makes adding aesthetic and handy widgets to your home screen and lock screen easy. Choose from predesigned widgets or, better yet, create your own with the easy-to-use widget editor. Browse dozens of widget types like photo, countdown, date and battery, calendar, and many more. you can also discover wallpapers that perfectly match your aesthetic. From customizing your widgets to changing your wallpaper, Quick Widgets give you the freedom to customize every detail to perfection. WIDGETS Get ready to transform your Home Screen like never before. Add pictures to your widgets, edit their font, play with color schemes, and so much more. Frequent updates constantly add new widgets you’d love. With Quick Widgets, there are no limits to customizing your Home Screen! Here’s a glimpse of our widgets: ● Time, Date & Battery ● Countdown ● Calendar ● Clock, Pomadoro ● Reminders ● Step Count/Pedometer ● Lock Launcher & shortcut ● Class schedule Embrace the power of Quick Widget and make your mark today! Tips: Widgets need to be saved to "Mine" first. When editing a component on the desktop, long pressing will display the widgets that have been added to the "Mine" component list.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Widget Box & shortcuts at 100% against Quick Widget's 0%. Widget Box & shortcuts also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (95 vs 7). Quick Widget's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Widget Box & shortcuts holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Box & shortcuts has 95 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Widget Box & shortcuts's written reviews are positive against 0% of Quick Widget's.
Widget Box & shortcuts ships an update every 2 months, Quick Widget every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widget Box & shortcuts | Quick Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (95 ratings) — better | 3.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 95 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AEGIS SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED | 意 田 |
Customer experience
Widget Box & shortcuts
Quick Widget
In-app purchases
Widget Box & shortcuts
No in-app purchases
Quick Widget
No in-app purchases
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