Widgecraft vs Pinning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widgecraft
Design unique and functional widgets for your home screen. Personalize them with various fonts, colors, backgrounds, and dynamic stickers. Monitor health goals, display clocks, and apply global themes for a cohesive look.
- User-friendly widget creation interface
- Vast customization options (fonts, colors, backgrounds)
- Multiple customizable themes
- Global widget theme application
- Live and keyboard/Memoji stickers
- Weather, Health, and Clock widgets
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Customize Your Home Screen Widgets Design unique widgets that fit your style and keep your home screen fresh and functional. Highlights: User-friendly interface for effortless widget creation. Vast Customization: Personalize widgets with various fonts, colors, and backgrounds. Themes: Choose from three customizable themes to match your mood and style, with more coming soon. Global Widget Theme: Apply a consistent look across all your widgets for a cohesive home screen. Live Stickers: Add dynamic stickers to bring your widgets to life. Keyboard & Memoji Stickers: Add fun and stylish stickers to your widgets for extra flair. Weather Widgets Health Widgets: Easily monitor your health goals with widgets for Steps, Sleep, and Calories. More options coming soon. Clock Widgets: Choose from a variety of clock styles to suit your aesthetic. Download Widgecraft today and transform your home screen with stunning, personalized widgets! Terms of Use: https://taptics.co/widgecraft/widgecraft_terms.html Privacy Policy: https://taptics.co/widgecraft/widgecraft_privacy.html
Pinning
Track important dates and milestones with a visually appealing countdown and calendar app. Organize events with notebooks, add custom icons, and display them on your home or lock screen with widgets. Share events with others via iCloud collaboration.
- Event countdown and count-up
- Calendar event syncing
- Birthday and anniversary tracking
- Event organization with notebooks
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- iCloud collaboration
- Recurring event notifications
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Pinning is a more powerful countdown app and a simple calendar viewer. It’s a tool to help you record life stories or track project milestones. It’s easy to create events and organize them with notebooks. Pinning also comes with built-in lists for birthdays and anniversaries. Events will be shown in timeline with self-selected icons or emojis. You can put the most important events on Home Screen or Lock Screen with beautiful widgets. Pinning supports iCloud collaboration so that you can easily share important events with family and friends. ## Features - Event countdown and count-up. - Sync upcoming calendar events and scheduled reminders. - Keep track of birthdays and anniversaries. - Organize with notebooks and tags. - Create recurring events and receive notifications. - Home Screen widgets for single event and event timeline. Lock Screen widgets for the most important events. - iCloud collaboration. - Siri Shortcuts support. - Save single event or list of events as images. - Import birthdays from birthday calendar. - Create events from calendars. Privacy Policy: https://pinning.app/privacy-policy Terms of Services: https://pinning.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pinning at 4.7 against Widgecraft's 4.2. Pinning also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 40%) and ratings volume (51 vs 11). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Widgecraft sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month and Pinning sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pinning holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 51 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Widgecraft's written reviews are positive against 75% of Pinning's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widgecraft | Pinning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (11 ratings) | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Taptics Ltd. | Anybox LTD |
Customer experience
Widgecraft
Pinning
In-app purchases
Widgecraft
- Plus$2.991 Month
Pinning
- Monthly$1.491 Month
- Monthly (Family Sharing)$2.491 Month
- Yearly$11.991 Year
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- Yearly (Family Sharing)$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
- Lifetime (Family Sharing)$31.99
