Any Text · Widgets vs Locknload
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Any Text · Widgets
Display any text on your Lock or Home Screen to keep important notes, goals, or tasks visible. Customize text with Markdown and utilize 20 different widgets. Integrates with Shortcuts for powerful automations and syncs across devices via iCloud.
- Customizable text widgets
- Lock Screen and Home Screen support
- Markdown styling (bold, italic, strikethrough)
- Live Activity and StandBy support
- iCloud device syncing
- Shortcuts app integration
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Put any kind of text on your Lock Screen or Home Screen so you won't miss it. It could be an important note, your goal, a list of tasks, etc. It also supports Live Activity and StandBy. The app includes 20 widgets that lets you put different text on different Lock Screen configurations or Home Screen. You can style parts of the text bold, italic, or strikethrough using Markdown. Syncs seamlessly across your devices with iCloud. Simply tap the widget to open the app to edit the text. ■ Shortcuts The app is scriptable through the Shortcuts app, enabling a lot of powerful use-cases. For example, you could use an automation to change the text at a certain point in the day or at certain places. The only limit is your creativity. ■ Support You can contact me through the feedback button in the app.
Locknload
Customize your phone's lock screen with custom launchers. Create shortcuts to any app or website using your own names and icons. Launch directly from your lock screen with a single tap.
- Custom app launchers
- Web URL shortcuts
- Customizable icons and names
- Launch from lock screen
- Supports custom app schemes
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Locknload is a simple & powerful tool to customize your lock screen. Create any launcher with your own URL, name and icon (symbol), and launch into any app that can be opened through a URL. The URLs can be either web URLs or custom app scheme URLs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Locknload at Free against Any Text · Widgets's $4.00. Locknload also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Any Text · Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (82% vs 50%). On rating and ads 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
Locknload is free to download; Any Text · Widgets costs $4.00 up front. Locknload sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Any Text · Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Any Text · Widgets against 4.5 for Locknload. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Any Text · Widgets has 450 ratings behind it against 73, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Any Text · Widgets's written reviews are positive against 50% of Locknload's.
Any Text · Widgets ships an update every 6 weeks, Locknload weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Any Text · Widgets | Locknload |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.00 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (450 ratings) — better | 4.5 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 450 — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #44 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | Actowise LLC |
Customer experience
Any Text · Widgets
Locknload
Bugs and requests
Any Text · Widgets
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widget not showing on Lock Screen
- Text not updating in a timely manner
- Force show when locked doesn't work
Requested features
6 requests- Allow alternating/rotating text
- Add custom font support
- Provide full-width widget options
- Add custom widget background colors
- Enable editing widgets directly
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- Add Apple Watch widget support
Locknload
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Any Text · Widgets
No in-app purchases
Locknload
- Pro Lifetime$3.99
- Pro Lifetime Reference$9.99
Questions
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