Pastille vs WidgetsLab
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+
WidgetsLab
Personalize your phone's home and lock screens with over 100 customizable widgets. Create unique looks with DIY tools, custom fonts, and icon packs. Enhance your messages with a special keyboard for expressive communication.
- 100+ customizable widgets
- DIY widget design tools
- Customizable icon packs
- Personalized English character keyboard
- Hundreds of mobile phone themes
- Transparent widget support
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Lets you personalize your home screen and lock screen like never before! General desktop widgets, free combination of 100+ widgets, supported: photos, to-do list, countdown day, minimalist clock, virtual clock, dial, calendar, quotations, small goals, today's step counting, all satisfy you demand. Making widgets has never been easier and more enjoyable. With Widgetslab, you can choose from a large number of widgets prepared by professional designers and place them on your home screen in just a few seconds. By the way, you can also DIY your own widgets with tons of tools, such as changing frame colors, fonts, widget styles, and more. Widgetslab is a great keyboard that helps you turn the thoughts you want to share with people into beautiful messages. Choose any font from tons of designs and spice up conversations with your stunning text. If you don't want to limit your self-expression to 300+ fonts, you can try the magic of our keyboard. Draw every character in your handwriting to create fully custom designs and add a personal touch to each message! The old way of changing icons by downloading icon pictures and using the Sharecuts app to change them one by one is a waste of time and anachronistic. With Widgetslab widgets, it takes less than 30 seconds to change the default icon in just two steps: 1. Choose your favorite icon from a large number of icon packs; 2. Click the "Install" button to allow the installation. After installation, all icons are on your home screen. 【special function】 1. Fully transparent widgets, support glass mimicry, blank space design, ins style, etc., and design themes more freely. 2. Hundreds of mobile phone themes, giving you a different mobile desktop experience 3. Personalized English character keyboard, enrich your social network pages Contact us:anyfont@anyfont.com Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSUtDdGJxTWRGbk5L Terms Of Servicel: https://docs.qq.com/doc/DSU5WQWFBT2JpYWtH
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pastille at none against WidgetsLab's 3. Pastille also leads on ads (none vs shown). WidgetsLab's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. WidgetsLab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Pastille asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pastille against 5.0 for WidgetsLab. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Pastille ships an update monthly, WidgetsLab every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pastille | WidgetsLab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 295 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ali KARAGOZ | Shenzhen Yipin Information Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Pastille
WidgetsLab
In-app purchases
Pastille
No in-app purchases
WidgetsLab
- Monthly membership$3.991 Month
- Quarterly membership$3.993 Months
- Annual Membership$14.991 Year








