Comparison

AnyWidget vs Alcove

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

Head to head
About

AnyWidget

Personalize your iPhone's Lock Screen with custom widgets. Add app launchers, shortcuts, date counters, text, icons, and photos to display information at a glance. Choose from various widget sizes and styles to beautify your device.

Highlights
  • App Launcher widgets
  • Custom shortcuts
  • Date progress tracker
  • Days counter
  • Icon and text customization
  • Circular, rectangular, and inline widgets
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AnyWidget: Lock Screen Widget is an essential application that helps you make personalize Lock Screen and beautify the themes of iPhone. In iOS16, You can now add customize widgets to your Lock Screen to glance at information like the launcher, shortcuts, time, date, calendar, progress, text, icon, photos, and more. # Lock Screen Widget Type ● App Launcher AnyWidget provides hundreds of popular apps and system apps List for you. You can now create an APP shortcut to the iPhone Lock Screen interface, and start the app with one click. ● Shortcuts You can also add shortcuts by entering shortcut name, Web Link, App Scheme. After adding it to the Lock Screen, you can open it with one click. ● Date Progress Just enter starting date and end date, and immediately record the progress of important events. The progress data is clear at a glance, allowing you to master the date progress in real time. ● Days Counter Enter the date when the anniversary begins, the app will count the days automatically. Widgets can now be edited to count down to a single event or count up from a special day in the past. Never miss every important days. ● Icon & Text Customize your lock screen with text, characters, emojis, and photos. # Lock Screen Widget Size ● Circular ● Rectangular ● Inline More features waiting for you to explore! If you have any suggestion or feedback, please contact us. E-Mail: anywidget@outlook.com Twitter:@Mangos_Li Official Web: www.deltalab.top/lockscreen VIP Member Subscription Features - Subscription periods are 1 month. Every 1 month your subscription renews, you can get unlimited access to all the PRO features. - If you choose to purchase a subscription your payment will be charged to your iTunes account. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Users can manage or unsubscribe in iTunes & App Store account management in the phone system settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.deltalab.top/lockscreen/privacy EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Alcove

Features
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Alcove is a calm to-do list, daily planner and notes app in one place. Capture tasks in plain words, plan your week on a calendar, keep notes that do the maths, and move work along on kanban boards. Tick tasks off from a widget, and find the same lists on your Mac, kept in step by your own iCloud. TYPE IT THE WAY YOU'D SAY IT Write "Call mum Friday 6pm" or "Stand-up every weekday 9:30 15m /Work" and Alcove picks out the day, time, length, repeat, priority, list and tags as you type. On the Mac, press Option-Space from any app to add a task. SPEAK YOUR TASKS Say everything on your mind at once. Alcove turns it into separate tasks, each with its date, time and list. PLAN YOUR DAY AND WEEK • Today, Upcoming and a calendar with an hour grid and an all-day row • Drag a task to a new time or day • Repeating tasks for any rhythm: every few days, weeks, months or years, chosen weekdays, or counted from when you finished REMINDERS AS LOUD AS THE TASK Pick quiet, a notification, or an alarm. On iPhone with iOS 26, an alarm rings through silent mode and Focus, with Stop and Snooze. Mark a task done right from its reminder. NOTES THAT DO THE MATHS Headings, checklists, code, quotes and tables, written with Markdown shortcuts. End a line with = and it's worked out, and tables add up their own totals. Paste a checklist or table from another app and it arrives as one. Turn any checklist line into a task. KANBAN BOARDS Lay tasks out in To do, Doing and Done, or columns of your own. Tasks stay in their lists and in Today, and a card dropped in Done is finished everywhere. WIDGETS, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS • Widgets for the Home Screen, Lock Screen and Mac desktop, with tasks you can tick without opening the app • Controls for Control Center and the Lock Screen • Siri adds tasks, reads out your day and takes notes • Shortcuts actions for your own automations MADE FOR THE MAC A menu bar list with a live count, a main window with a sidebar of every list, board and note, floating windows that stay on top, and keyboard shortcuts throughout. AI assistants can work with your tasks too, but only once you turn them on, only with the permissions you approve, and every call is logged. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account to create, no ads and no tracking. Your tasks and notes sync through your own iCloud. Progress shows what you finished against what you added, worked out on your device, with no streaks and no scores. AND THE DETAILS • 100 steps of undo, and six months of history for every task • Search across tasks, notes, tags and attachments • Lists with colours and icons, folders and tags • Six accents and five papers, in light and dark ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Download free and try everything for 14 days, starting whenever you're ready. Then a single purchase unlocks Alcove for good on your Mac, iPhone and iPad, and Family Sharing includes your family. If you don't unlock, your tasks and notes stay readable and exportable, and nothing is deleted. Privacy Policy: https://alcovetasks.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

AnyWidget4 screens
Alcove4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Alcove at none against AnyWidget's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. AnyWidget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and Alcove sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
AnyWidget versus Alcove: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnyWidgetAlcove
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (98 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings98 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer文婷 赖Muhammed Basil E

In-app purchases

2 purchases

AnyWidget

Subscriptions1
  • AnyWidget Monthly PRO$1.491 Month
One-time1
  • AnyWidget · Lifetime PRO$3.99
2 purchases

Alcove

One-time2
  • 14-day TrialFree
  • Alcove Unlock$29.99

Questions

Is AnyWidget free?
AnyWidget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Alcove free?
Alcove is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AnyWidget or Alcove have ads?
AnyWidget shows ads; Alcove does not.

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