Galeria | Custom Widgets vs LockSwitch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Galeria | Custom Widgets
Personalize your device's home screen with a wide array of customizable widgets. Choose from pre-designed options or create your own unique layouts with text, photos, and countdowns. Enjoy a constantly updated selection of beautiful backgrounds and themes.
- Customizable widgets
- Photo widgets
- Text widgets
- Countdown widgets
- Predesigned templates
- Automatic photo updates
- Widget editor
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Widget Galeria: The simplest way to add beautiful and lovely widgets to your home screen. Pick from attractive predesigned widgets, or even better, use the simple widget editor to construct your own. Choose from a variety of widget types, including photo, text, and countdown widgets (more to come). Bored of not having beautiful pictures on your widgets? We got your back, use Widget Galeria and select from a huge collection of breathtaking photos taken by photographs (provided by Unsplash). It gets even better, the pictures can change automatically daily, hourly, or every 5 minutes based on a theme that you can choose. Widgets Create widgets! you may customize a widget's typeface, add images, change the colors, and so much more. There are always new widgets being added that you'd love. Customizing your Home Screen is endless with Widget Galeria. Get ideas from the variety of pre-designed widgets at Galeria. View templates under categories like 'Cool Backgrounds' and 'Mountains'; many more will be added in upcoming versions. All your personal data is protected by the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy: https://pixdeo.com/galeria-privacy/ Terms of Use: https://pixdeo.com/terms/
LockSwitch
Create custom widgets for your device's lock screen to automate tasks. Access a library of actions or build your own, and personalize with thousands of icons or photos. Widgets sync across devices via iCloud.
- Custom lock screen widgets for app automation
- Library of system and third-party app actions
- Create your own custom actions
- Personalize widgets with 3,500+ icons or photos
- iCloud sync across devices
- App themes and alternate icons
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LockSwitch is a must-have for anyone wanting more control over their lock screen. Easily make custom widgets that trigger actions on your device when you tap them. Access the library of widget actions for system and third-party apps, or you create your own. ——— Features ——— - Create custom lock screen widgets for app automation. - Access a wide array of actions for system and third-party apps, or create your own. - Personalize your widgets with over 3,500 icons to choose from or choose a custom photo. - Widgets automatically sync across all of your devices with iCloud. - App themes and alternate app icons. ——— Support ——— If you enjoy using the app, please leave an excellent review and consider purchasing LockSwitch Pro, which will support me (Matt) as I'm the only person building this app. Please contact me on the support screen via the app settings tab if you have any issues, feedback, or feature requests. ——— Subscriptions ——— If you purchase a LockSwitch Pro subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account. Your account will automatically be charged for renewal 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period unless you disable auto-renew. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://mdssoftware.co/privacypolicy Terms of Use: https://mdssoftware.co/termsofuse
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LockSwitch at 4.8 against Galeria | Custom Widgets's 4.2. Galeria | Custom Widgets's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.5 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. Galeria | Custom Widgets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and LockSwitch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LockSwitch holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 8 respectively.
Galeria | Custom Widgets ships an update every 7 months, LockSwitch every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Galeria | Custom Widgets | LockSwitch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (16 ratings) | 4.8 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pixdeo, Ltd | MasterMind Software LLC |
Customer experience
Galeria | Custom Widgets
LockSwitch
In-app purchases
Galeria | Custom Widgets
- Galeria Pro$1.991 Month
- Galeria Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
LockSwitch
- LockSwitch Pro$2.991 Month
- LockSwitch Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Year
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