Comparison

Lively Widget vs Alive Widgets

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

Alive Widgets

Create unique and personalized phone home screens with a vast collection of customizable widgets. Express your individuality with interactive elements, photo frames, and even mini-games to de-stress.

Highlights
  • Customizable widget creation
  • Photo and album widgets
  • Interactive elements
  • De-stress mini-games
  • Extensive widget library
  • DIY creative tools
Features
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随心所欲打造属于自己独一无二的手机桌面布局。 让每个人的手机桌面都能够既好玩又好看。 超多可爱,好看,实用,有爱的小组件,可以满足日常生活需要; 海量的二次元内容,任你自由发挥创意 DIY,吃谷人痛机轻松get; 多款功能强大的相册,应援棒元素,定制专属于你和自担的互动桌面; 不同类型的解压小游戏,在忙碌的工作之余,轻松释放压力; 想要有个性的桌面,各种风格迥异的组件,任你挑选组合; 想要有创意的桌面,多种组件均可自由编辑,不同组件巧妙搭配; 想要有自己的美照,相框,立牌,饼干袋,包括组件背景,均支持上传图片; 让你的手机桌面成为你个性的延伸,随时随地展现你的独特魅力。 【自动订阅服务说明】 1.订阅服务: 按周订阅(1周)、月订阅(1个月)、按年订阅(12个月) 2.订阅价格: 按周订阅:38元/周(前3天免费),按月订阅:98元/月,按年订阅:298元/年。 3.付款:用户确认购买并付款后计入iTunes账户 4.自动续费:苹果iTunes账户会在到期前24小时内扣费,扣费成功后订阅周期顺延一个订阅周期 5.关闭服务:您可以在苹果手机“设置” --> 进入“iTunes Store 与 App Store”-->点击 “Apple ID”,选择"查看Apple ID",进入"账户设置"页面,点击“订阅”,管理自动订阅服务,如需取消,每个计费周期结束前24小时关闭即可,到期前24小时内则不再扣费 【用户协议】https://widget-app-online.alivewidgets.com/api/config/userProtocol 【隐私政策】https://widget-app-online.alivewidgets.com/api/config/privacyProtocol

Screenshots

Lively Widget4 screens
Alive Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Lively Widget at none against Alive Widgets's shown. Lively Widget also leads on rating (3.9 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (40 vs 3). Alive Widgets's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and review sentiment (90% vs 78%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 and Alive Widgets sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lively Widget holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lively Widget has 40 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Lively Widget's written reviews are positive against 90% of Alive Widgets'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, Alive Widgets weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Lively Widget versus Alive Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLively WidgetAlive Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (40 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews90.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings40 — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.2 GB565 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSquare Digital LimitedXiamen Lingdong Zhichuang Technology Co., Ltd

Customer experience

Lively Widget

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

Alive Widgets

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.8%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Lively Widget

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

Alive Widgets

Subscriptions8
  • 月度会员1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • 季度会员$2.993 Months
  • 周会员7 Days trial$4.997 Days
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  • 周会员$4.997 Days
  • 年度会员2 variants$4.991 Year
  • 月度会员$14.991 Month
  • 周会员3 Days trial$38.007 Days
  • 年度会员$299.001 Year
One-time1
  • 永久会员$7.99

Questions

Is Lively Widget free?
Lively Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Alive Widgets free?
Alive Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lively Widget or Alive Widgets?
Lively Widget is rated higher. Lively Widget averages 3.9 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Alive Widgets averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Lively Widget or Alive Widgets have ads?
Alive Widgets shows ads; Lively Widget does not.
Which is updated more often, Lively Widget or Alive Widgets?
Lively Widget ships an update monthly, and Alive Widgets weekly. Most recently, Lively Widget was updated on November 3, 2026 and Alive Widgets on November 4, 2026.

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