Comparison

Wdgts 2 vs Widgets for LockScreen

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

Head to head
About

Wdgts 2

Enhance your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with a suite of useful widgets. Access quick calculations, currency conversions, notes, and more directly from your home or lock screen, with premium features available via subscription.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen widgets
  • Desktop widgets for Mac
  • Calculator and converter
  • Note-taking and link saving
  • Customizable clocks for time zones
  • Auto-history for notes and calculations
Features
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A collection of incredibly useful widgets for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Built from ground up with SwiftUI. Both iOS and macOS apps are fully native and seamlessly integrated with each other. ________________________________________ Wdgts 2 comes with the following free forever widgets: - Calculator: Perform quick calculations right from your homescreen. - Converter: Supports major cypto and fiat currencies. Updated every 2 hours. Premium Widgets require an active subscription. These include: - Clips: Quickly save links, text or image and access them later with full search. - On This Day: Relive Your Memories - On This Day widget shows you photos taken today over the years. - ScratchPad: Jot down things right from your homescreen. Syncs across all your devices. Comes with Time Machine-esque auto-history feature. - Zones: Glanceable clocks to keep track of your friends in different time zones. - Music (macOS only): Shows you the currently playing song from Music.app. ________________________________________ Special features: - Desktop Widgets (macOS): Always visible, glanceable widgets just like on iOS, now on your Mac. Wdgts is the first ever app to focus primarily on desktop widgets. - Lock Screen Widgets (iOS): Quick, glanceable widgets keeps the info you need always at reach right from your lock screen. - Smart Glance: Desktop widgets stay out of the way until you need them. Mouse over brings it to front, mouse out restores focus to previous window. - Auto-history Maintains an automatic history of all calculations made in calculator or converter and notes in the scratchpad widget. - Haptics, Sounds & Animations Wdgts 2 is a highly polished app with focus on providing a great user experience. Every major action has haptics, sounds and animates according to touch. --- Terms of Use: https://wdgts.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://wdgts.co/privacy Support: For support and feature suggestions please reach out to us by email at support@wdgts.co or tweet us @wdgtsapp.

About

Widgets for LockScreen

Enhance your iPhone's lock screen with a variety of customizable widgets. Add app launchers, contact shortcuts, countdowns, clocks, calendars, weather, fitness trackers, financial data, motivational quotes, language learning tools, and system information.

Highlights
  • App Launcher widgets
  • Contact shortcuts
  • Event countdowns
  • Customizable clock styles
  • Calendar and weather displays
  • Fitness and financial data
  • Motivational quotes and language learning
Features
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LockScreen Widgets – the ultimate app for customizing your lock screen with stylish and functional widgets! With LockScreen Widgets, you'll have access to a wide range of widgets for your iPhone's lock screen, including: - App Launcher: launch your favorite apps in one click, right from the lockscreen. - Contacts: access the phone call faster than ever. - Days Countdown: until the event to not miss anything, or since the event to track new habits. - Clock widgets: Choose from a variety of clock styles, including analog, digital, and minimalistic. And see time in different time zones! - Calendar widgets: Stay organized and on top of your schedule with a calendar widget that displays your upcoming events. - Weather widgets: Stay informed about the weather with widgets that display current temperature, forecast, and more. - Fitness widgets: Keep track of your workouts and daily activity with fitness widgets that display step count, distance, and more. - Currency, Stock and Crypto data! - Quotes and Affirmations. Stay motivated throughout the day! - Learn language. See and remember new words and phrases few times a day! - System widgets will show you your volume settings, your battery life or storage capacity. LockScreen Widgets make it easy to customize your lock screen with widgets that suit your style and needs. Simply select your widgets from the app, and they will automatically appear on your lock screen. You can even rearrange and resize your widgets to fit your preferences. With LockScreen Widgets, you'll be able to transform your lock screen into a functional and stylish dashboard that keeps you informed and organized throughout the day. Download LockScreen Widgets for iPhone now! Privacy Policy: https://metaproject.pro/files/legal/widgets/privacy_policy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://metaproject.pro/files/legal/widgets/terms_of_use.html

Screenshots

Wdgts 24 screens
Widgets for LockScreen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Widgets for LockScreen at 100% against Wdgts 2's 24%. Widgets for LockScreen also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 10 months). Wdgts 2's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Wdgts 2 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year and Widgets for LockScreen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Widgets for LockScreen holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wdgts 2 has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Wdgts 2's written reviews are positive against 100% of Widgets for LockScreen's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wdgts 2 ships an update every 10 months, Widgets for LockScreen every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Wdgts 2 versus Widgets for LockScreen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWdgts 2Widgets for LockScreen
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.6 (5 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews24.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTanmay SonawaneMetaProject, LLC

Customer experience

Wdgts 2

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive24.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative60.0%

Widgets for LockScreen

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Wdgts 2

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$9.99
2 purchases

Widgets for LockScreen

Subscriptions2
  • Premium access$1.991 Month
  • Premium access3 Days trial$18.991 Year

Questions

Is Wdgts 2 free?
Wdgts 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Widgets for LockScreen free?
Widgets for LockScreen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wdgts 2 or Widgets for LockScreen?
Widgets for LockScreen is rated higher. Wdgts 2 averages 2.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Widgets for LockScreen averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wdgts 2 or Widgets for LockScreen have ads?
Neither Wdgts 2 nor Widgets for LockScreen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wdgts 2 or Widgets for LockScreen?
Wdgts 2 ships an update every 10 months, and Widgets for LockScreen every 2 weeks. Most recently, Wdgts 2 was updated on September 19, 2026 and Widgets for LockScreen on September 8, 2026.

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