Clear Widget ( vs Menu Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clear Widget (
Design transparent spaces on your home screen with customizable overlay widgets for essential information like time and date. Personalize your device further with quotes and stickers, and rearrange icons for a unique user experience.
- Customizable transparent widgets
- Overlay widgets for time and date
- Personalized quotes and stickers
- Icon rearrangement
- Enhanced home screen aesthetic
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Clear Widget offers a bounty of customisation possibilities, enabling you to design essential transparent spaces with the additional feature of overlay widgets for immediate access to information like the time, date and many others. You can also enhance your home screen aesthetic with personalised quotes and stickers using Clear Widget. These features empower you to rearrange your icons wherever you prefer, paving the way for a truly custom user experience. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Menu Box
Create visually appealing menus for your device's shortcuts. Customize menu items with emojis, app icons, or custom images to build personalized automations. Dynamically generate menus on the fly for advanced shortcut customization.
- Create beautiful menus for Shortcuts
- Customize with emojis, SF Symbols, or custom images
- Attach custom data to menu items
- Fully controllable via Shortcuts
- Dynamically create menus on the fly
- Enhance Action Button functionality
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Menu Box allows you to create beautiful menus in Shortcuts, further customising your advanced Automations. Menus can be created using emojis, SF Symbols App Icons or your own custom images to create truly individual menus with near limitless options. Custom data attached to each menu items allows you to create even more advanced Shortcuts. Menu Box is fully controllable via Shortcuts, including creating Menus dynamically on the fly. Menu Box is perfect for creating advanced Shortcuts to allow you to further customise how your menus look, and becomes especially useful when combined with the Action Button. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Menu Box at 86% against Clear Widget ('s 17%. Menu Box also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.3) and ads (none vs shown). Clear Widget ('s advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.5). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Clear Widget ( sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Menu Box sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Menu Box holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Clear Widget ('s written reviews are positive against 86% of Menu Box's.
Clear Widget ( ships an update every 2 months, Menu Box fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Clear Widget ( | Menu Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (7 ratings) | 4.7 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eden Software Limited | Snailed It Development Ltd |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Clear Widget (
- Clear Widget Pro$0.991 Month
Menu Box
- Premium$4.991 Year
- Tip Jar - Small$0.99
- Tip Jar - Medium$2.99
- Tip Jar - Large$4.99
Questions
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