Comparison

Custom Widgets by Clockology vs Sci

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Custom Widgets by Clockology

Design and share interactive, personalized watch faces for your Apple Watch. Utilize a powerful editor to create feature-rich faces with custom complications, or explore designs from a global community. Supports Always-On display and integrates with Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Create custom watch faces
  • Interactive complications
  • Always-On display support
  • Powerful design editor
  • Browse and import community designs
  • Share creations globally
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Create beautiful, personalized widgets for your iPhone, CarPlay, and other Apple devices. Design interactive widgets that match your style and display the information that matters most to you. With a powerful visual editor, you can build feature-rich widgets using images, text, weather, health data, gradients, custom shapes, and more. Discover inspiration in the Ideas and Explore sections, where you can browse widgets created by the community and import them with a tap. Share your own creations with users around the world and explore an ever-growing collection of designs. Widgets+ subscribers unlock premium features including Weather and Image Strip layers, along with an exclusive collection of professionally designed widgets. Custom Widgets supports the following layer types: • Text: Add custom text using a wide variety of fonts, colors, gradients, and effects • Image: Add PNG or JPG images and preserve PNG transparency • Shape: Create shapes using gradients and visual effects to build unique designs • Weather: Display current conditions, forecasts, temperature, icons, and weather descriptions based on your location • Activity & Health: Uses Apple Health integration to display steps, activity goals, and workout information as rings, bars, or text • Date and Time: Display the current time, date, seconds, and more using a wide variety of fonts and effects • Device: Show battery level and other device-specific information • Icon: Add icons to enhance the visual appearance of your widgets • Image Strips: Use advanced images that change based on the date, time, or phase of the moon • Hands: Use vectors or custom images to add animated clock hands to your designs Notes: • Custom Widgets optionally integrates with Apple Health. Health data can be used to display workout metrics, activity information, and daily progress summaries. Permission to access this data is managed through the Apple Health app. • Custom Widgets includes an optional Widgets+ premium subscription available on a monthly or annual basis. If you choose to purchase a subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Auto-renewal can be managed at any time through your App Store Account Settings. • Access to hosted weather data is available exclusively to Widgets+ premium subscribers. Privacy Policy & Terms: https://clockologyapp.com/privacy-policy-faces-embed/

About

Sci

Personalize your device with a vast collection of sci-fi and space-themed wallpapers for your home and lock screens. Enhance your experience with customizable Home Screen Image Widgets, allowing you to display your favorite images.

Highlights
  • 250+ widget backgrounds
  • Variety of home/lock screen wallpapers
  • Customizable Home Screen Image Widget
  • Add your own images to widgets
  • Parody sci-fi display styles
Features
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Customize your iPhone or iPad with Sci-Fi and Space wallpapers, Home Screen Image Widgets, and Clock/Date Widgets. INCLUDES: - 260+ square and rectangle Image Widget Backgrounds in many styles (or add your own images) - 130+ backgrounds or use a color gradient for the Clock/Date Widget - Icon packs in 13 styles with 2,000+ icons to set with the Shortcuts app - A large variety of wallpaper for Home / Lock screens to perfectly fit every size iPhone / iPad (Always adding more wallpaper, so check periodically) WIDGET DIRECTIONS Add a widget to your home screen in the usual way (long press the home screen and when in jiggly mode press the '+' on top. Scroll down to Sci-Fi Themes and select the size you want [do this for each size you want]). Long press the widget to change the theme from the images you set in the app. Some of the Sci-Fi styles are modeled after popular sci-fi shows and movies. The look like they should work, even with indecipherable meaning or function. And just like the props, iOS gives them the same functionality - NONE. It's parody how the sci-fi designers thought future displays would look while being impossible to use. *These are generic images. Please do not ask me in reviews or by mail to include any trademarked names, logos, images or other properties. I respect copyrights and will not include them. If used in tandem with my calculator widget, icon maker, widget maker, keyboard, and ringtones apps, you can really create a fuller theme.

Screenshots

Custom Widgets by Clockology4 screens
Sci4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Custom Widgets by Clockology at Free against Sci's $3.99. Custom Widgets by Clockology also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.3) and update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). Sci's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#51 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ads and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Custom Widgets by Clockology is free to download; Sci costs $3.99 up front. Custom Widgets by Clockology sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.49 per month. Sci asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Custom Widgets by Clockology holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Custom Widgets by Clockology has 2K ratings behind it against 55, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Custom Widgets by Clockology's written reviews are positive against 54% of Sci's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Custom Widgets by Clockology ships an update monthly, Sci every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Custom Widgets by Clockology versus Sci: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCustom Widgets by ClockologySci
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.6 (2K ratings) — better3.3 (55 ratings)
Positive reviews46.7% of reviews53.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2K — better55
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank—#51 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.2 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClockology, LLCNSTE, LLC

Customer experience

Custom Widgets by Clockology

All ratings1,966 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews195 reviews
Positive46.7%
Neutral6.2%
Negative47.2%

Sci

All ratings55 ratings
Positive56.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive53.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative41.5%

User reviews

Custom Widgets by Clockology

From 2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Customizable watch faces
  • 🚀 Efficient app performance
  • ⌚️ Seamless integration with Apple Watch
  • 🌟 Beautiful and creative watch face designs

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Compatibility issues with older Apple Watch models
  • 🔌 Inconsistent syncing between app and watch
  • 🕰 Some watch faces not functioning as expected
  • 💰 Subscription-based model may be unappealing to some users
  • 🤔 Limited selection of watch faces in the free version

Sci

From 55 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ High-quality sci-fi wallpapers
  • 🎨 Great customization options
  • 👍 Intuitive and smooth app experience
  • 🚀 Seamless widget integration
  • 💯 Immersive and detailed designs

Room to improve

  • 💸 Waste of money/overpriced
  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🚫 Wallpapers don't fit correctly
  • ⚠️ Limited widget functionality
  • ❌ App doesn't work on some devices

Bugs and requests

Custom Widgets by Clockology

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Watch faces not loading properly on Apple Watch
  • Complications not updating as expected
  • Crashes or freezes when attempting to sync watch faces
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between watch faces

Requested features

5 requests
  • More customization options for watch faces
  • Ability to save and share custom watch face designs
  • Improved syncing and reliability between app and watch
  • Support for older Apple Watch models
  • Option for one-time purchase instead of subscription

Sci

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Unknown error when downloading wallpapers
  • Widgets not showing as an option to add
  • Wallpapers slightly off on iPhone 16 Pro Max
  • Widgets don't refresh quickly
  • Cannot add photo widget / Photo widget not working well
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  • App doesn't work on iPad / Cannot use arrow button to download
  • Error message when trying to download photos
  • Lock screen widgets go over desired parts of wallpaper
  • Widget doesn't show as an option in adding widgets
  • When pinned on iPhone, says 'sc fi themes' under each widget

Requested features

10 requests
  • Update for newer iPhone models (iPhone 17)
  • More animated wallpapers/live wallpaper options
  • More variety in sci-fi themes (e.g., Star Wars)
  • Ability to have multiple different widgets
  • Widgets that don't display app name
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  • More customization for widgets (e.g., colors, animation)
  • Fix alignment issues for specific phone models (iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro Max)
  • More wallpaper options per size
  • Option to have same wallpaper in both horizontal and vertical
  • More comprehensive theme packages (including icons)

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Custom Widgets by Clockology

Subscriptions2
  • Widgets+ Monthly7 Days trial$3.491 Month
  • Widgets+ Yearly$29.991 Year
None

Sci

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Custom Widgets by Clockology free?
Custom Widgets by Clockology is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sci free?
Sci costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Custom Widgets by Clockology or Sci?
Custom Widgets by Clockology is rated higher. Custom Widgets by Clockology averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while Sci averages 3.3 from 55 ratings.
Do Custom Widgets by Clockology or Sci have ads?
Neither Custom Widgets by Clockology nor Sci shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Custom Widgets by Clockology or Sci?
Custom Widgets by Clockology ships an update monthly, and Sci every 6 months. Most recently, Custom Widgets by Clockology was updated on September 23, 2026 and Sci on September 22, 2026.

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