Pastille vs Widget Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pastille
Create custom lock screens with your favorite app icons and contacts. This app offers automatic setup for popular apps and a clean interface for personalization.
- Add favorite app icons
- Add favorite contacts
- App search with millions of entries
- Automatic icon and title setup
- Pre-configured app links
- Customize lock screen widgets
- Light and Dark themes
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Pastille lets you add your favorite app icons, contacts, and shortcuts on the lock screen of your device on iOS 16+. Features: - Add your favorite apps - App your closest contacts - Powerful app search option with millions of entries - Automatic title and icon setup - Automatic app link creation for the most popular apps with more than 500 pre-configured links - Customize your lock screen with your favorite app widgets - Clean and friendly UI - Light and Dark themes Soon: - Add your favorite contacts - Add useful shortcuts - Access a list of exclusive backgrounds made for iOS 16+
Widget Maker
Design and personalize your iOS home screen with custom widgets. Add unique fonts, images, backgrounds, and even quotes to create a look that reflects your style. Easily craft stunning widgets to share or simply brighten your day.
- Customizable widgets
- Personalized fonts
- Image and background options
- Quotes and jokes integration
- Easy-to-use interface
- Home screen customization
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Meet the ultimate widget maker, built to help you customize your iPhone and iPad home screen like never before! With Widget Maker you can create your own unique widgets, complete with custom fonts, images, backgrounds, and even quotes or jokes. Whether you want to add a personal touch to your home screen or make a fun widget to share with friends and family, this app has everything you need. The easy-to-use interface lets you design stunning widgets in seconds, widgets that reflect your own style and taste. Choose from a wide range of fonts to make your widget stand out, or add your own photos and backgrounds for a design that is truly one of a kind. And with our collection of quote and joke widgets, you can add a touch of humor to your home screen and brighten up your day. Create photo slideshow widgets that change every day, countdown widgets for the days you cannot wait for, progress widgets, QR code widgets and text notes. Colors, corner styles, fonts and sizes are all completely up to you. So why wait? Download Widget Maker today and start customizing your iPhone home screen like a pro!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pastille at 5.0 against Widget Maker's 4.5. Pastille also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). Widget Maker's advantage is ratings volume (64 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pastille holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Maker has 64 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Pastille ships an update monthly, Widget Maker every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pastille | Widget Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.5 (64 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 64 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ali KARAGOZ | abedalkareem omreyh |
Customer experience
Pastille
Widget Maker
In-app purchases
Pastille
No in-app purchases
Widget Maker
No in-app purchases
