Date Today vs Simple Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Date Today
Enhance your home screen with customizable calendar widgets. Choose from numerous themes and styles to personalize your display, or create your own unique widget designs. Save multiple widgets for different looks.
- Minimalist calendar widgets
- Dozens of theme styles
- Customizable background, text, and fonts
- Save multiple widgets
- Different widget sizes
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Calendar Widget is the most easy-to-use minimal design calendar widget app. Add stylish calendar widgets directly onto your home screen. Customize your home screen ▲ There are dozens of cute theme styles to meet your home screen beautification needs. ▲ Easily design your own widget with Calendar Widget ▲ Customized background, text color & fonts ▲ Save many widgets and have a different type of widget on your home screen at the same time ▲ Choose from different sizes (small, medium, large)
Simple Widgets
Personalize your home and lock screens with customizable widgets. Choose from various sizes and styles, including different backgrounds, font colors, and borders. Easily edit existing widgets to change their appearance.
- Customizable widget types
- Small, Medium, Large, and Lock Screen widgets
- Background and font color customization
- Border customization
- Edit existing widget appearance
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Simple Widgets • Photo makes it super easy to customize your home and lock screen like never before. Customize every widget, and personalize your home and lock screen. Features: • Create different types of widgets. • Small, Medium, Large, and lock screen widgets, all customizable. • Customize the added widget with different backgrounds, font colors, borders, etc. • Edit the added widgets to a different appearance. ——— FEEDBACK ——— Have any suggestions? Feel free to contact us at joezhang176776005@gmail.com Term of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://zhangkaigogo.github.io/Widgets/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simple Widgets at 100% against Date Today's 33%. Simple Widgets also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0). Date Today's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Date Today sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Simple Widgets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simple Widgets holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Date Today's written reviews are positive against 100% of Simple Widgets's.
Date Today ships an update every 4 days, Simple Widgets every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Date Today | Simple Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (26 ratings) | 4.4 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LE NGUYEN QUANG PHUOC | Wuhan Linggu Dingdang Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Date Today
Simple Widgets
In-app purchases
Date Today
- Lifetime$9.99
Simple Widgets
- Widget Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Widget Premium (Annual)$19.991 Year
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