Comparison

Large Text Widget vs Dotwall

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

Head to head
About

Large Text Widget

Display large, customizable text on your home screen, lock screen, and dynamic island. Read text aloud with speech synthesis and personalize fonts and colors. Offers whiteboard functionality and input history.

Highlights
  • iOS 16 Live Activities
  • Dynamic Island support
  • Lock screen widgets
  • Home screen widgets
  • Text to Speech
  • Customizable fonts and colors
  • Whiteboard handwriting
Features
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A large text app that supports iOS16 live activities. Dynamic islands, home and lock screen widgets available. All features are completely free to use. - iOS16 Live Activity - Dynamic island - iOS16 lock screen widget - iOS14 home screen widget - Text magnifying display and reading aloud - Background color and rich font settings - Flip screen up/down/left/right and flash - Handwriting on the whiteboard - Text input history and so on...

About

Dotwall

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Dotwall turns your lock screen into a dot matrix. Type anything, up to 90 characters, and Dotwall draws it in dots at this iPhone's exact pixel size. Or let the dots be the year, one for every day, with today lit up in your colour. Or your life in weeks, one dot for every week you have had and every week still ahead. Three kinds of wallpaper: Words: any text, drawn as a dot-matrix wallpaper. Year: 12 columns for the months, 31 rows for the days. Past days lit, today in the accent colour. Tap any dot to read its date. Life: 52 weeks across, 60 to 100 years down. The current week is the coloured one. Tap a dot to read its week. Your birthday stays on this iPhone. Eight looks: Halftone, Board, Quiet, Pixel, Gradient, Neon, Flipdot and Stipple. Any ground colour, from black, graphite and navy to paper and cream, and any dot colour, from a swatch or the system colour picker. Eight accents, and sixteen app icons to match. The preview is your lock screen. The date, the clock and the two bottom buttons are drawn over the wallpaper, so you see the finished screen before you save. Drag the dots up or down to move them out from under the clock, pinch to size them, swipe sideways for the next look, tap to hide the clock. The Place tray has Move and Size sliders if you prefer those. Save draws the wallpaper at this iPhone's native pixel size and adds it to Photos as a PNG. Then Photos, Share, Use as Wallpaper. iOS does not let an app set the wallpaper itself; Photos is the two-tap hand-off. Keep Year and Life current with Shortcuts. Dotwall gives Shortcuts an action, Get Today's Dotwall, that returns today's image at this iPhone's size. A daily automation at 00:05 that runs Get Today's Dotwall and then Set Wallpaper Photo keeps today's dot moving. The recipe is in Settings. A Home Screen widget, Year in dots, in small, medium and large, drawn in your look and ground colour and redrawn every day. Private by design. Dotwall has no account, no sync and no networking code at all. Your words, your birthday and your colours stay on this iPhone, in the app. The wallpaper is drawn here and saved to your own Photos with add-only access: Dotwall can add photos, never read them. No subscription, no in-app purchases. Requires iOS 26. iPhone only.

Screenshots

Large Text Widget4 screens
Dotwall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dotwall at none against Large Text Widget's shown. On price, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Large Text Widget versus Dotwall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLarge Text WidgetDotwall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (39 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFugaPiyo Inc.Shubham Dolas

In-app purchases

None

Large Text Widget

No in-app purchases

None

Dotwall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Large Text Widget free?
Large Text Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dotwall free?
Dotwall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Large Text Widget or Dotwall have ads?
Large Text Widget shows ads; Dotwall does not.

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