wg vs .
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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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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Design custom transparent widgets for your home screen. This utility app allows you to create blank spaces for a personalized aesthetic without any subscriptions or in-app purchases.
- Create transparent widgets
- Home screen decoration
- Personalized aesthetic
- No subscription required
- No in-app purchases
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Create transparent widgets with A Blank. It's your golden partner for home screen decoration. • No subscription • No in-app purchase
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: . at 3.8 against wg's 3.0. . also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). wg's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 25%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume and update cadence 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. wg sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. . asks for nothing beyond the download.
. holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of wg's written reviews are positive against 25% of .'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | wg | . |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hisanori Yamashita | 倩倩 李 |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
wg
- Remove Ads.(~iOS15)$5.99
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No in-app purchases
