Best Widgets vs Top Four
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Best Widgets
Personalize your iPhone's home screen with a vast collection of customizable widgets, charging animations, and custom keyboards. Express your unique style with adjustable fonts, colors, backgrounds, and more.
- Customizable widgets
- Charging animations
- Custom keyboards
- Wide range of templates
- Personalize fonts, colors, backgrounds
- Multiple widget categories
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Fancy widgets, charging animations and custom keyboards for your iPhone! Best Widgets app lets you customize your homescreen like never before. Express yourself with a wide range of templates personalized exclusively for your iOS device. We designed the app from the ground up with a wide collection of fully customizable widgets from multiple categories including date, weather, quotes, astronomy, calendar, reminders, fitness, photos and more. Personalize every aspect of your widget, charging animation and custom keyboard with our powerful tools. Each element such as the fonts, pictures, backgrounds, colors, etc. can be adjusted precisely to best fit your personality. Best Widgets app includes an optional premium subscription plan which is offered on a monthly basis with a 3 days free trial. Once you purchase a subscription plan, your payment will be charged at your iTunes account. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Follow us on Facebook to get exclusive updates, promo codes and more: https://facebook.com/bestwidget Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/best-widgets-terms/home Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/best-widgets-privacy/home
Top Four
Personalize your phone's lock screen with customizable widgets. Add text, emojis, or symbols that can launch actions like calling contacts or controlling smart home devices. You can set up to four widgets for quick access to your favorite functions.
- Customizable text widgets
- Emoji and symbol integration
- Launch actions on tap
- Control HomeKit devices
- Open apps and contacts
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Top Four is an app to customize your lock screen widgets to be more personal to you. Choose text, emojis or symbols to add under the time. Tapping these widgets can also run an action like calling someone, toggling a HomeKit device or opening instagram (many more coming soon). You get 4 widgets to add to your lock screen (your top four). - Use text with custom fonts - Use emojis - Use one of the many symbols Have any questions or issues? email me@shabz.co
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Top Four at none against Best Widgets's shown. Top Four also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Best Widgets's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Best Widgets sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Top Four sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Best Widgets against 4.7 for Top Four. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 35 respectively.
Best Widgets ships an update every 2 weeks, Top Four every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Widgets | Top Four |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (31 ratings) | 4.7 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 270 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Widgethub Limited | ShabzCo, LLC |
Customer experience
Best Widgets
Top Four
In-app purchases
Best Widgets
- Best Widgets Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- 9.99 USD Per Month$9.991 Month
- 29.99 USD Per Year$29.991 Year
- 39.99 USD for Lifetime.$39.99
Top Four
- Top Four Pro$1.99








