Web Widget vs Webcam Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Web Widget
Add your favorite websites directly to your Home screen as widgets. Select specific areas of a webpage to display and tap the widget to open the full site.
- Add favorite websites to Home screen
- Create custom webpage widgets
- Select specific display areas
- Tap widgets to open webpages
- Support for multiple widgets
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Put your favorite website right on your Home screen. Just open the app, choose websites you want to see, and then select the area that you want to appear in a widget. You can add multiple widgets for different web pages to the Home screen You can also open the webpage by tapping on Widget.
Webcam Widgets
Display live images from the web directly on your Home Screen. Track weather, charts, or any live image feed with customizable widgets. Share images easily with friends.
- Customizable Home Screen widgets
- Live image updates from web URLs
- Track weather, charts, and webcams
- Share images from widgets
- Supports JPEG, JPG, and PNG URLs
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ImageTracker lets you add image widgets to your Home Screen with live images from the web which update with realtime information. You can use it to track a weather cameras, various charts and figures, or anything live image you can think of! ImageTracker is the spiritual successor of SlothCam, the original webcam app for Dashboard, MacOS, and iOS, and it offers similar features to SlothCam, but in a modern Home Screen Widget format. With this app you can create widgets using any live image from the web (jpeg, jpg, png URLs). Whether it’s a satellite image of the Earth, a real-time weather forecast, space weather charts showing aurora data, or a live webcam feed, this app allows you to create dynamic widgets with live content from the web. To install a Home Screen Widget, tap and hold on your Home Screen until the icons jiggle and press + to add a widget. Once you add the widget, you can tap it while in Home Screen edit mode and add a custom URL to the widget. Features: •Customizable Widgets: Place any image URL into a Home Screen widget on your iPhone or iPad or Mac. •Live Updates: Widgets refresh periodically to display the latest data, ensuring your information is always current. •Versatile Use Cases: Ideal for displaying weather maps, NASA satellite images, live webcams, space weather charts, aurora borealis data, and more. Any image published to the web can be used! •Easily share images from widgets with friends. ImageTracker is free to use. Purchasing the app removes the in-app ad banner and the nag message that appears on the widget, and allows you to customize widgets with title text for each webcam image. Privacy Policy: https://catspaw-systems.com/PrivacyPolicies/ImageTrackerPrivacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Webcam Widgets at 100% against Web Widget's 43%. Webcam Widgets also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 14 months). Web Widget's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Web Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Webcam Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Webcam Widgets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Web Widget's written reviews are positive against 100% of Webcam Widgets's.
Web Widget ships an update every 14 months, Webcam Widgets every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Web Widget | Webcam Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LE NGUYEN QUANG PHUOC | Catspaw Systems LLC |
Customer experience
Web Widget
Webcam Widgets
In-app purchases
Web Widget
- Lifetime$7.99
Webcam Widgets
- Purchase App$5.99
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