Comparison

Calendar for Lockscreen vs Lock Screen Widgets & Themes

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

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About

Calendar for Lockscreen

Enhance your iPhone's lock screen with customizable calendar widgets and countdown timers. Choose from multiple styles, fonts, and track unlimited events. Premium features include iCloud sync and additional fonts.

Highlights
  • 6 widget styles
  • Unlimited custom events
  • 50+ font options
  • Quick select holidays
  • iCloud sync (premium)
  • Dark mode support
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Calendar for Lockscreen - Lock Screen & Home Screen Widgets Transform your Lock Screen and Home Screen with beautiful calendar widgets and countdown timers. Calendar for Lockscreen brings powerful customization to your iPhone with 6 Lock Screen widget styles, 4 full color Home Screen styles, 50+ fonts, and unlimited custom events. POWERFUL LOCK SCREEN STYLES Choose from 6 beautifully designed widget styles, each available in small and large sizes: • Simple Date - Clean, minimalist date display • Date & Time - See the date and time at a glance • Calendar - A mini monthly calendar right on your lock screen • Countdown - Track days until your important events • Progress - Visualize how far along you are to your event • Week Strip - See your entire week at a glance NEW: HOME SCREEN WIDGETS (PREMIUM) Add up to four Home Screen widgets in Small, Medium, or Large, each one laid out for the size you choose: • Countdown - The days remaining until your chosen event • Progress - A ring that fills up as the event approaches • Month - This month at a glance, with your events marked • Up Next - A running list of the events coming up Dress them up with six color themes: Midnight, Ocean, Sunset, Forest, Orchid, and Snow. EDIT WIDGETS WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Touch and hold any Home Screen widget, tap Edit Widget, and change its event, style, or theme right there. Requires iOS 17 or later. UNLIMITED CUSTOM EVENTS Create as many countdown events as you want! Perfect for tracking: • Birthdays and anniversaries • Vacations and trips • Holidays and celebrations • Weddings and special occasions • Project deadlines • Any date that matters to you Each event includes a live preview so you can see exactly how it will look. NEW: IMPORT FROM YOUR CALENDAR (PREMIUM) Already have it in Calendar? Import it in a couple of taps. Calendar for Lockscreen shows your upcoming events, suggests a fitting icon for each one, and turns the ones you pick into countdowns. It only ever reads your calendar, and never changes it. QUICK SELECT HOLIDAYS Get started instantly with 11 pre-configured holidays: • Christmas • Hanukkah • New Year • Easter • Mother's Day • Father's Day • Diwali • Halloween • Thanksgiving • Valentine's Day • Independence Day PERSONALIZE WITH 50+ FONTS Make your widgets truly yours with our extensive font library: • System fonts (San Francisco, SF Rounded, New York, SF Mono) • Sans Serif (Arial, Avenir, Futura, Helvetica, and more) • Serif (Baskerville, Georgia, Palatino, Times New Roman, and more) • Display (American Typewriter, Chalkboard, Copperplate, and more) • Monospace (Courier, Menlo) • Premium custom fonts (Roboto, Pacifico, Lobster, and more) Set different fonts for your title and subtitle to create the perfect look. ICLOUD SYNC (PREMIUM) Your events sync across all your devices. Create an event on your iPhone and see it on your iPad. A sync status screen shows what is stored in iCloud and when your device last synced. DESIGNED FOR YOU • Separate Lockscreen and Homescreen tabs • Widget gallery to preview all styles before choosing • Live previews at every widget size • Full dark mode support • 12-hour or 24-hour time format option FREE FEATURES • 3 Lock Screen widget styles: Simple Date, Date & Time, and Countdown • Unlimited custom events • 40+ iOS system fonts • Dark mode support PREMIUM FEATURES Upgrade to unlock: • All 6 Lock Screen widget styles • 6 configurable Lock Screen widget slots • 4 Home Screen widgets with 4 styles, 6 themes, and 3 sizes • Import events from your calendar • iCloud sync across all your devices • 9 exclusive premium fonts • No ads • Support independent development Download Calendar for Lockscreen today and make your Lock Screen and Home Screen work for you!

About

Lock Screen Widgets & Themes

Customize your iPhone's lock screen with a wide variety of widgets for efficiency or aesthetic appeal. Choose from numerous high-quality wallpapers, including those with a depth effect, to personalize your device.

Highlights
  • Lock screen customization
  • Versatile widget selection
  • High-quality wallpaper library
  • Depth effect wallpapers
  • Personalize contrast and style
  • Shortcuts to chats
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Progress never stops, especially today when the pace of our life is quite fast, progress moves as fast as a rocket. Every day we invent something new or improve things that have already existed. It’s a big race that started long ago and since that moment we are seeking new ways to improve our life. Of course in the beginning it was almost always something big and significant but the further we go and the more inventions we invent the more small things we can create for them. The purpose of these small things is to make inventions better and more comfortable to use. That was our motivation when we were creating Lock Screen Widgets & Themes! When IOS 16 was released we saw it as an opportunity. Opportunity to create a new versatile app that will allow you to customize your lock screen in many ways. Lock Screen Widgets & Themes will maximize the enjoyment of using your iPhone. With our app, you can customize your lock screen so it would serve you with as much efficiency as possible or keep it simple and minimalistic to receive aesthetic satisfaction. For efficiency you can wide variety of widgets that can help you with almost any task: to turn something on or off, remind you something, show what is using the biggest amount of RAM, follower count, motivational notes, shortcuts to chats with most important people in your life and etc. For people who are chasing aesthetics, we have a huge amount of wallpapers. Lock Screen Widgets & Themes has a wallpaper for everybody with any resolution and aspect ratio. They were gathered and divided into categories so you would have no problem finding one that you want. With our app, you can personalize almost everything on your lock screen so it would match your wallpaper, or instead of being something that suits the wallpaper it can stand out to create contrast. What Lock Screen Widgets app do you need? • It is a versatile app that will help you to customize your lock screen • Making your experience with iPhone even better • Big variety of widgets to help you with almost anything • Library of wallpapers that we are only able to describe as “WOW!” • High-quality wallpapers with any resolution and aspect ratio • In this update, we added a collection of wallpapers with depth effect Upload Lock Screen Widgets & Themes and gain even more enjoyment from using your phone. Privacy Policy: http://lrpresetsapp.tilda.ws/lsw-privacy-policy Terms of Use: http://lrpresetsapp.tilda.ws/lsw-terms Support: http://lrpresetsapp.tilda.ws/lockscreenwidgets

Screenshots

Calendar for Lockscreen4 screens
Lock Screen Widgets & Themes3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Lock Screen Widgets & Themes at 4.7 against Calendar for Lockscreen's 2.3. Lock Screen Widgets & Themes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (56 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Calendar for Lockscreen sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Lock Screen Widgets & Themes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lock Screen Widgets & Themes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lock Screen Widgets & Themes has 56 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calendar for Lockscreen ships an update every 6 weeks, Lock Screen Widgets & Themes every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Calendar for Lockscreen versus Lock Screen Widgets & Themes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendar for LockscreenLock Screen Widgets & Themes
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)4.7 (56 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings356 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB102 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJustin HeintzDmitriy Bulash

Customer experience

Calendar for Lockscreen

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Lock Screen Widgets & Themes

All ratings48 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Calendar for Lockscreen

One-time5
  • Calendar Lockscreen Premium$0.99
  • Tip$0.99
  • Tip$1.99
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  • Tip$2.99
  • Tip$3.99
3 purchases

Lock Screen Widgets & Themes

Subscriptions3
  • Unlimited Access2 variants$0.997 Days
  • Wallpapers & Widgets Pro3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Wallpapers & Widgets Pro3 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Calendar for Lockscreen free?
Calendar for Lockscreen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lock Screen Widgets & Themes free?
Lock Screen Widgets & Themes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calendar for Lockscreen or Lock Screen Widgets & Themes?
Lock Screen Widgets & Themes is rated higher. Calendar for Lockscreen averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Lock Screen Widgets & Themes averages 4.7 from 56 ratings.
Do Calendar for Lockscreen or Lock Screen Widgets & Themes have ads?
Calendar for Lockscreen shows ads; Lock Screen Widgets & Themes does not.
Which is updated more often, Calendar for Lockscreen or Lock Screen Widgets & Themes?
Calendar for Lockscreen ships an update every 6 weeks, and Lock Screen Widgets & Themes every 3 weeks. Most recently, Calendar for Lockscreen was updated on October 25, 2026 and Lock Screen Widgets & Themes on October 25, 2026.

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