Web Widget vs thumbs.work
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.
thumbs.work
This app functions as a smart notepad that instantly calculates results as you type in plain language. It offers extensive scientific calculations, unit conversions, and time zone translations. Manage multiple scratchpads for different purposes and export your data in various formats.
- Calculate as you type
- Instant scientific calculations
- Extensive unit conversions
- Time zone calculations
- Running totals and previous results
- Separate, searchable scratchpads
- Import/export data
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Think with your brain. Work with your thumbs. thumbs.work is a notepad that does the math for you. Type a line in plain language and the answer appears right next to it. No equals button, no modes, no switching apps. CALCULATE AS YOU TYPE Every line evaluates instantly. Add up a bill, split it four ways, work out a budget. Change units for recipes in a single number. A full scientific set is built in: square roots, powers, logs, trig, factorials, and constants like pi and e. CONVERT ANYTHING Length, volume, weight, temperature, speed, area, data, even CSS units. Just write "10 km to miles" or "2 cups to ml" and get a clean answer. SKIP THE TIME ZONE MATH "9am PST to UTC", "time in Tokyo" — written the way you'd actually say it. RUNNING TOTALS Numbers on consecutive lines form a block. Type "sum" or "average" to total them, and "prev" to reference your last result. SEPARATE SCRATCHPADS Keep one for everything... groceries, travel, bills, a project. Rename, reorder, and search them. Import and export as JSON, Markdown, CSV, or plain text. A notepad for your thoughts. A calculator for real life. Works with plain text, markdown, and our own .calc files. MANY THUMBS, NO LIMIT Keep as many documents of every type as you like, free. Sync, every theme, and import/export are free too. SUBSCRIPTION thumbs.work Pro removes the single in-app promo card and supports an independent developer. Everything else is already free. • Pro Monthly — $2.99 per month • Pro Yearly — $19.99 per year Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://thumbs.work/terms Privacy Policy: https://thumbs.work/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: thumbs.work at none against Web Widget's 1. thumbs.work also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Web Widget's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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. thumbs.work asks for nothing beyond the download.
thumbs.work holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Web Widget has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Web Widget | thumbs.work |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LE NGUYEN QUANG PHUOC | Iona, LLC |
In-app purchases
Web Widget
- Lifetime$7.99
thumbs.work
No in-app purchases
