Comparison

Best Widgets vs Top Four

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable widgets
  • Charging animations
  • Custom keyboards
  • Wide range of templates
  • Personalize fonts, colors, backgrounds
  • Multiple widget categories
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable text widgets
  • Emoji and symbol integration
  • Launch actions on tap
  • Control HomeKit devices
  • Open apps and contacts
Features
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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

Screenshots

Best Widgets4 screens
Top Four4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Best Widgets versus Top Four: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest WidgetsTop Four
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (31 ratings)4.7 (35 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3135 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size270 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWidgethub LimitedShabzCo, LLC

Customer experience

Best Widgets

All ratings31 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.5%

Top Four

All ratings35 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Best Widgets

Subscriptions3
  • Best Widgets Pro3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • 9.99 USD Per Month$9.991 Month
  • 29.99 USD Per Year$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • 39.99 USD for Lifetime.$39.99
1 purchases

Top Four

One-time1
  • Top Four Pro$1.99

Questions

Is Best Widgets free?
Best Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Top Four free?
Top Four is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Best Widgets or Top Four?
Top Four is rated higher. Best Widgets averages 4.7 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Top Four averages 4.7 from 35 ratings.
Do Best Widgets or Top Four have ads?
Best Widgets shows ads; Top Four does not.
Which is updated more often, Best Widgets or Top Four?
Best Widgets ships an update every 2 weeks, and Top Four every 4 days. Most recently, Best Widgets was updated on October 15, 2026 and Top Four on October 18, 2026.

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