Comparison

Widgecraft vs Pinning

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Pinning keeps the days that matter in view. Count down to trips, birthdays, deadlines and anniversaries, or count up from the moments you want to remember, all in one beautiful timeline. COUNT DOWN, OR COUNT UP • See how long until any date, or how long it’s been • Show time in days, weeks, months or years, the way you think about it • Multi-day events, like trips and conferences, show while they’re happening • Repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly or on a schedule of your own BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES • See the age someone turns and the years you’re celebrating • Import birthdays from Contacts, with their photos • Supports the Chinese lunar calendar ORGANIZED YOUR WAY • Group events into notebooks, add tags, and star the ones that matter most • Give every event a symbol, an emoji or your own image • Find anything in a moment with Quick Find SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE • Share a notebook with family and friends over iCloud and plan together • Share any event as a beautiful image NEVER MISS A DAY • Get reminded on the day, or days, weeks or a month before, at the time you choose • See your calendar events and reminders with due dates next to your countdowns • Rewind brings back what happened a month or a year ago today ALWAYS AT A GLANCE • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Add an event right from Control Center • Siri and Shortcuts support • Apple Watch app with complications • A native Mac app EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Your events sync through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. There’s no account to create, and your events stay in your iCloud. PINNING PRO Try everything free for 7 days. After that, the free plan keeps 7 events. Pinning Pro unlocks: • Unlimited events • Calendars in your timeline • Scheduled reminders • Importing birthdays from Contacts One purchase works across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or buy it once for life, each with or without Family Sharing. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Service: https://pinning.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://pinning.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Widgecraft4 screens
Pinning4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widgecraft ships an update every 3 weeks, Pinning every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Widgecraft versus Pinning: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidgecraftPinning
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (11 ratings)4.7 (51 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1151 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTaptics Ltd.Anybox LTD

Customer experience

Widgecraft

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

Pinning

All ratings51 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative15.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Widgecraft

Subscriptions1
  • Plus$2.991 Month
6 purchases

Pinning

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Monthly (Family Sharing)$2.491 Month
  • Yearly$11.991 Year
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  • Yearly (Family Sharing)$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime$19.99
  • Lifetime (Family Sharing)$31.99

Questions

Is Widgecraft free?
Widgecraft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pinning free?
Pinning is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Widgecraft or Pinning?
Pinning is rated higher. Widgecraft averages 4.2 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Pinning averages 4.7 from 51 ratings.
Do Widgecraft or Pinning have ads?
Neither Widgecraft nor Pinning shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Widgecraft or Pinning?
Widgecraft ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pinning every 4 weeks. Most recently, Widgecraft was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pinning on October 30, 2026.

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