My Buttons vs Status Bartender
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Buttons
Create custom buttons for your home screen with unique icons and actions like making calls, sending texts, or opening apps. Store and share your button creations easily.
- Create custom buttons
- Assign icons and actions
- Offline icon creation
- Edit actions without recreating
- Store and manage button collections
- Share buttons via email
- Launch custom schemes/apps
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“My Buttons” will let you create your own buttons with an icon for the home screen and an action to perform. The action can be to make a call or any of the other types listed below. There are other apps that do similar things but here are a some unique features only found in “My Buttons”: -Internet connection is only needed on the first launch of “My Buttons”. Nothing will be sent on the internet. All other icon creation apps send the icon-image to a server. -The action can be changed without recreating the icon. -You can have a collection of buttons stored in the app and create them on the home screen at any time. -You can share your buttons via email. Your friends can use them after installing “My Buttons”. -You can configure custom schemes that will let you launch other apps like skype for example. List of Action types: Call FaceTime Email Text message (sms) Show contact (you choose an action every time) Safari (open web page) YouTube (open a video) Copy to clipboard (any text that you can later paste) Custom
Status Bartender
Enhance your screenshots and screen recordings by replacing the default status bar with a custom, polished version. Choose from various styles, including classic times and full battery indicators, and remove distracting recording markers for a cleaner look.
- Remove default status bar
- Replace with custom status bar
- Classic time display (9:41)
- Full battery indicator
- Remove screen recording marker
- Customizable status bar color
- Customizable time display
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Raise the bar on your screenshots and screen recordings with Status Bartender. Say goodbye to those pesky status bars ruining your perfect shots. Status Bartender swoops in like a superhero, removing the existing status bar and replacing it with a sleek, beautiful version that's sure to impress. We're talking the classic 9:41 time, a Wi-Fi signal stronger than your morning coffee, and a full battery – because who wants to see a low battery warning in their screenshots? And for all your screen recordings, Status Bartender goes above and beyond by getting rid of the distracting red 'screen recording' marker. You're in control with Status Bartender. Choose your status bar color – white, black, or even transparent if you're feeling mysterious. And if you want to mix things up, you can customize the displayed time too. Get ready to take your screenshots and screen recordings to the next level with Status Bartender.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Status Bartender at 100% against My Buttons's 30%. Status Bartender also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 months). My Buttons's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Status Bartender sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. My Buttons asks for nothing beyond the download.
Status Bartender holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: My Buttons has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of My Buttons's written reviews are positive against 100% of Status Bartender's.
My Buttons ships an update every 6 months, Status Bartender every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Buttons | Status Bartender |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (6 ratings) | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Throw Lab | Ramik Sadana |
Customer experience
My Buttons
Status Bartender
In-app purchases
My Buttons
No in-app purchases
Status Bartender
- Unlimited Exports$1.99
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