Backend widget vs Widget Construction Set
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backend widget
Display crucial data and information directly on your home screen using customizable widgets. Track SaaS revenue, sports scores, deliveries, or build your own micro-apps by connecting to various API data sources.
- Custom HTTPs API requests (GET/POST)
- JSON parsing
- Multiple widget layouts
- Widget customization
- Dark theme support
- No account required
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Observe important data and information right from your home screen: track you SAAS revenue, follow sport team score, trace you delivery package, build your own micro-applications with your own backend * This app helps you organise important information from API data source and provide you a simple way for fast analytics. Backend Widget can display any value from API on the phone home screen with widgets. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Just download Backend Widget and start creating you widgets. FEATURES: - Custom HTTPs API requests with GET/POST support - Parse JSON by providing parsing path - 2 widget layouts - Widget customisation - Dark theme support MADE IN UKRAINE * You need to use your own API or any available API provider to get actual data and render it inside widgets.
Widget Construction Set
Create custom widgets for your device's Home Screen using web-hosted widget.json files. This app allows for extensive customization without needing separate applications for each widget.
- Create custom widgets
- Use web-hosted widget.json
- No additional apps needed
- Home Screen integration
- Extensive customization
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Widget Construction Set lets you add web-hosted widget.json files to your device's Home Screen. Using widget.json, you can create any widget you want, with no additional app. For more information, visit https://wd.gt
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Widget Construction Set at Free against Backend widget's $0.99. Widget Construction Set also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.1). Backend widget's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 50%) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Widget Construction Set is free to download; Backend widget costs $0.99 up front. Widget Construction Set sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Backend widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Widget Construction Set holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Backend widget's written reviews are positive against 50% of Widget Construction Set's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Backend widget | Widget Construction Set |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (8 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oleksii Oliinyk | Bird Cartel LLC |
Customer experience
Backend widget
Widget Construction Set
In-app purchases
Backend widget
No in-app purchases
Widget Construction Set
- Widget Construction Set Pro$2.99
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