Widgeton vs Purl.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Widgeton
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With Widgeton you can personalize you home screen as you want. It delivers highly customizable set of widgets with information about your daily steps, distance, hour, calendar, battery and your current location. Each can be adjusted as you want. You can change its appearance: color, font size, font style. You can change an image, background gradient colors. Widgeton optionally integrates with Apple Health to get information about your daily steps and distance. Widgeton includes an optional premium subscription which allows you change the default appearance of the widgets. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Purl.
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Purl is the ultimate companion for knitters and crocheters. Everything lives locally on your device, with no account, no sign-up, and no ads. All features are completely free, always. PROJECTS ⢠Track what you're making, from planned to finished. ⢠Add yarn, needle or hook size, and the gauge you actually got. ⢠View a timeline of all your projects. ⢠Add progress photos with personal notes. PATTERNS ⢠Keep your own written patterns and imported PDFs in one library. ⢠Open PDF patterns, even very large ones, and pinch to zoom, fully offline. ⢠Draw, highlight, add sticky notes, and drop bookmarks. ⢠Row counters and a chart stitch tracker built for following along. YARN STASH ⢠Log your yarn with color, dye lot, weight, fiber, and gauge. ⢠See your stash totals in meters and grams. ⢠Sort and filter to find the right yarn, and match it to a pattern in your library. HANDY TOOLS ⢠Quick standalone counters for anything you need to count. ⢠Craft calculators for gauge, resizing, shaping, and calculation total skeins needed. ⢠A built-in chart maker: design your own chart from scratch, or let Purl generate them directly from a photo. ⢠A comprehensive knit and crochet glossary in both English and Norwegian. MADE TO FEEL RIGHT ⢠Available in both English and Norwegian. ⢠Switch between light and dark mode. ⢠A two-pane layout on iPad and larger screens. ⢠Easily backup and restore everything to a single file. Purl is completely free, with no locked features. If the app helps you, there is an option to leave a tip on the Support Purl page, but nothing is ever put behind a paywall. And lastly, your data stays yours: it lives exclusively on your device unless you actively choose to export it.
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Verdict
Widgeton and Purl. are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters ā price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Widgeton sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Purl. sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widgeton | Purl. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Artur Skwarek | Pierre Boniface |
In-app purchases
Widgeton
- Monthly subscription$0.991 Month
Purl.
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- Buy me a skein$5.99
- Big thank-you$11.99









