Widget Lab vs wg
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widget Lab
Personalize your home screen with a variety of useful widgets. Track system info, enjoy daily poems, set countdowns for important dates, and make waiting times more enjoyable. More widgets are continuously being added.
- Personalize home screen
- System Info Widget
- Daily Poems Widget
- Count Down Widget
- Slack Off Widget
- Customizable widgets
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Widget Lab is an application collecting various of widgets together. Widget Lab not only allows you to personalize and design your own HOME screen based on your preferences easily, but also provides you different kinds of useful widgets to help you gather and collect information from several different fields. System Info Widget: To check your phone's status including RAM, battery, system version etc. in Home. Daily Poems Widget: To feel the beauty of literature across 5000 years. Count Down Widget: Remember every important date. Slack Off Widget: Let Waiting Time to Get Off be Happier. More widgets are under development and will be updated in the near future. [Description of Widget Lab App membership service 1. Membership includes several subscription types Subscription period: 1 month, 3 months, 12 months 2. The first subscription will be paid directly through iTunes account; the account will be charged within 24 hours before the expiration date, and the subscription period will be automatically postponed after the successful deduction. 3. You can choose whether to renew the subscription or not, if you want to cancel, please cancel in the AppleID settings 24 hours before the subscription expires. 4.Widget Lab App Membership Agreement Widget Lab App Member Service Agreement: https://post.jellow.club/小组件盒子会员付费协议/ 5.Widgetbox App Software User Agreement and Privacy Policy Widgetbox Software License and Service Agreement: https://post.jellow.club/xzh-agreement/ Widgetbox Privacy Agreement: https://post.jellow.club/xzh-privacy/
wg
Create a seamless look by making widgets appear transparent on your wallpaper. Display time, date, calendar, and notes with your chosen background image. Easily change wallpapers and access a user manual for guidance.
- Transparent widget effect
- Use custom wallpaper as widget background
- Display time, date, calendar, and notes
- Easy wallpaper change shortcuts
- In-app user manual
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Transparent widget on wallpaper. Use your favorite image as the wallpaper and place the widget on it. The wallpaper and the widget will have the same pattern, so the widget will look as if it is transparent. You can place the time, date, calendar, and notes on the widget. 1) By using the shortcuts provided, you can easily change the wallpaper. 2) The user manual has been enhanced. After launching the app, tap the "?" mark at the top of the screen. 3) On the iPad, widgets can only be displayed as images. There is no function to integrate it with the wallpaper.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Widget Lab at 3.9 against wg's 3.0. Widget Lab also leads on ratings volume (400 vs 2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). wg's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 31%). 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. Widget Lab sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and wg sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Widget Lab holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Lab has 400 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 31% of Widget Lab's written reviews are positive against 50% of wg's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Widget Lab ships an update fortnightly, wg every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Widget Lab | wg |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (400 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.4% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 400 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 14.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 285 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ningbo If Technology Co.,Ltd | Hisanori Yamashita |
Customer experience
Widget Lab
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Bugs and requests
Widget Lab
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widgets not displaying properly
- App crashes or fails to open
- Music playback issues and sync problems
Requested features
3 requests- Add more music service options (e.g. YouTube Music)
- Improve widget reliability and functionality
- Provide better language support and localization
wg
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Widget Lab
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Weekly$4.997 Days
- Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
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- Quarterly$7.993 Months
- Annual$19.991 Year
- StandbyFree
- Retro widget$0.99
- musicwidget$4.99
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- Charge animation$4.99
- Lifetime$15.99
wg
- Remove Ads.(~iOS15)$5.99









