Comparison

Lock Screen Shuffle vs Lively Widget

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

Head to head
About

Lock Screen Shuffle

Transform your iPhone into a dynamic art gallery with personalized wallpapers. Create cohesive photo collections that automatically change, or design inspirational quote wallpapers from a variety of categories. Make your lock screen uniquely yours.

Highlights
  • Custom photo wallpaper collections
  • Automatic wallpaper changing
  • Inspirational quote wallpapers
  • Multiple quote categories
  • Select up to 50 quotes
  • Template-based design
Features
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Lock Screen Shuffle is the best app to create beautiful changing wallpapers using your own photos! Turn your iPhone into a live art gallery with your precious memories! iOS 16 has a new Photo Shuffle feature that allows you change your wallpaper automatically, and our app allows you to create stunning wallpapers with your photos to create cohesive and beautiful wallpaper collections that change automatically and look like they are from the same photo collection. Just choose template, add your photos, and the app will generate gorgeous wallpapers for your iPhone that look like they are from an art gallery. Use the new iOS wallpaper photo shuffle feature to make them automatically change every day, or every time you open your phone! QUOTE WALLPAPERS Meaningful designs and messages, carefully selected, and arranged to create inspirational quote wallpapers! Multiple Categories with a wide selection of hand-picked quotes: +General Quotes +Inspirational Quotes +Motivational Quotes +Positive Thinking Quotes +Fitness Quotes +Affirmations Quotes +Business Quotes +Happiness Quotes +Self-Development Quotes Select up to 50 Quotes to add to your wallpaper designs! Oh and btw, the app is completely free with no ads. :) Make your Lock Screen truly yours. Download Lock Screen Shuffle now!

About

Lively Widget

Create animated and highly customizable widgets for your iPhone's home and lock screens. Display health data, photos, quotes, pixel art, and more with a wide range of design options and presets.

Highlights
  • Animated widget creation
  • Health and activity data display
  • Photo and quote widgets
  • Pixel art creation
  • GIF sticker integration
  • StandBy mode compatibility
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Try out our latest Activity and Health widget with the following health features: 1. Energy Burned, Exercise Time, and Stand Hours. 2. Step Count and Walking Distance. 3. Heart Rate, Resting Heart Rate, Walking Heart Rate Average, and Heart Rate Variability. 4. Blood Oxygen and Respiratory Rate. 5. Environmental Sound Level and Headphone Audio Levels. 6. Double Support Time, Walking Asymmetry, Walking Speed, Walking Step Length, and Stair Speed. 7. Blood Pressure. 8. Blood Glucose. 9. All health data can be displayed in chart view and customized for a specific date range, such as 24 hours or 7 days. Animate your Widgets! Lively Widget allows you to create your own animated iOS widgets for your iPhone lock screen and home screen, enhancing your iPhone screen's overall aesthetics and liveliness. You can create nice-looking activity & health widgets, clock widgets, battery widgets, photo widgets, quote widgets, GIF sticker widgets, or even pixel art widgets! Most of our widgets are compatible with StandBy mode in the newly released iOS 17. Lively Widget enables you to upload images from your album, add text, apply borders, change background and adjust various aspects such as size, rotation, and position of your images. All widgets within Lively Widget are highly customizable and can be designed as frame-by-frame animated widgets. You can create activity widgets or health widgets to keep track of your daily fitness routine and body measurements, such as heart rate, step count, energy burned, blood pressure, and blood glucose level. Charts can be used in the widgets to show data of the last 7 days or last 24 hours. You can also create your own pixel art from scratch using an empty canvas, convert your photos into pixel art, or simply select a pixel art widget from our collection. Lively Widgets offers a wide collection of moving GIF stickers & widget presets for you to make custom lock screen widgets and home screen widgets, with cute & cool categories like emojis, animals, sports, self-care, pixel art, nature, love, quotes, etc. The presets collection will only grow bigger over time! Examples: You can select a bunch of photos of your loved ones and add them to a home screen photo widget to put a smile on you during the day. You can create your own motivational quote widgets on your home screen to inspire yourself and keep you going. You can add an animated emoji widget on your lock screen to give yourself a smile whenever you look at your iPhone. Lively Widget is available for free download. The trial version offers limited access to stickers and features. It provides a good opportunity to explore and familiarize yourself with the app. To unlock all features and animated widgets & stickers, you can subscribe to Lively Widget Pro on a monthly, yearly, or lifetime basis. Start personalizing your lock screen or home screen with animated widgets by getting it now! If you like Lively Widget, please rate us on the App Store! If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at hello@livelywidget.com. Term of Services & End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.livelywidget.com/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Lock Screen Shuffle4 screens
Lively Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Lock Screen Shuffle at 4.7 against Lively Widget's 3.9. Lock Screen Shuffle also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). Lively Widget's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 56%). On price, ads and device support 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. Lively Widget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Lock Screen Shuffle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lock Screen Shuffle holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 183 and 40 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Lock Screen Shuffle's written reviews are positive against 78% of Lively Widget's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lock Screen Shuffle ships an update every 4 days, Lively Widget monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Lock Screen Shuffle versus Lively Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLock Screen ShuffleLively Widget
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (183 ratings) — better3.9 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews55.6% of reviews78.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings183 — better40
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB1.2 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLivintis W.L.L.Square Digital Limited

Customer experience

Lock Screen Shuffle

All ratings183 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.3%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%

Lively Widget

All ratings37 ratings
Positive67.6%
Neutral8.1%
Negative24.3%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative17.4%

In-app purchases

None

Lock Screen Shuffle

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Lively Widget

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Quarterly Subscription$4.993 Months
  • Yearly Subscription$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Lock Screen Shuffle free?
Lock Screen Shuffle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lively Widget free?
Lively Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lock Screen Shuffle or Lively Widget?
Lock Screen Shuffle is rated higher. Lock Screen Shuffle averages 4.7 out of 5 from 183 ratings, while Lively Widget averages 3.9 from 40 ratings.
Do Lock Screen Shuffle or Lively Widget have ads?
Neither Lock Screen Shuffle nor Lively Widget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lock Screen Shuffle or Lively Widget?
Lock Screen Shuffle ships an update every 4 days, and Lively Widget monthly. Most recently, Lock Screen Shuffle was updated on November 3, 2026 and Lively Widget on November 3, 2026.

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