Comparison

Lively Widget vs Widget spacer

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

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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

About

Widget spacer

Customize your iOS 16 Lock Screen by adding transparent widgets to reposition existing elements. Choose from two sizes and an inline option for date style, or add a custom message above the clock.

Highlights
  • Transparent widget spacers
  • Customizable widget placement
  • Two widget sizes
  • Inline date style option
  • Custom message above clock
Features
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Use these new widget spacers to move your new iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets to where you want them to be. Two sizes are available for better customisation, as well as an inline option to shorten the date style. You can also set a custom message in the settings app to show above the clock. Nice.

Screenshots

Lively Widget4 screens
Widget spacer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Widget spacer at 4.4 against Lively Widget's 3.8. Widget spacer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (daily vs monthly). Lively Widget's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 65%). On price, ratings volume, 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. Widget spacer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Widget spacer holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 92 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Lively Widget's written reviews are positive against 65% of Widget spacer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lively Widget ships an update monthly, Widget spacer daily. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Lively Widget versus Widget spacer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLively WidgetWidget spacer
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (37 ratings)4.4 (92 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews — better64.7% of reviews
Number of ratings3792 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.2 GB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSquare Digital LimitedRichard Shilton

Customer experience

Lively Widget

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

Widget spacer

All ratings92 ratings
Positive85.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative9.8%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative35.3%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Lively Widget

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Quarterly Subscription$4.993 Months
  • Yearly Subscription$9.991 Year
None

Widget spacer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lively Widget free?
Lively Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Widget spacer free?
Widget spacer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lively Widget or Widget spacer?
Widget spacer is rated higher. Lively Widget averages 3.8 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while Widget spacer averages 4.4 from 92 ratings.
Do Lively Widget or Widget spacer have ads?
Neither Lively Widget nor Widget spacer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lively Widget or Widget spacer?
Lively Widget ships an update monthly, and Widget spacer daily. Most recently, Lively Widget was updated on October 16, 2026 and Widget spacer on October 14, 2026.

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