The Widget vs Screenmade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Widget
Design unique home screen clock widgets with a playful and customizable interface. Inspired by music synthesizers, this app offers endless possibilities for personalization on iOS devices. More components are planned for future updates.
- Customizable clock widgets
- Multiple visual styles
- Synthesizer-inspired design
- Easy customization tools
- iOS home screen personalization
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The Widget: A Creative Widget Maker Unleash your creativity with The Widget, a playful and fully customizable clock widget designed exclusively for iOS! Inspired by the controls of music synthesizers, The Widget allows you to design unique home screen widgets with endless possibilities. Whether you want a classic or modern look, The Widget has you covered. With more components coming soon, you’ll always have new ways to personalize your experience. Features: • Multiple visual styles • Easy-to-use customization tools • Intuitive design inspired by synthesizer controls Start creating your own clock widgets today and make your home screen truly yours! Feel free to tweak it based on your preferences!
Screenmade
Personalize your iPhone and iPad screens with a wide array of customizable widgets for Home, Lock, StandBy, and CarPlay. Create unique wallpapers and add interactive elements to your device.
- 30+ customizable widgets
- Generative wallpaper engine
- Home, Lock, StandBy, CarPlay support
- Interactive widgets (games, trackers)
- Customizable colors, fonts, layouts
- iCloud sync across devices
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Make every screen yours - Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and CarPlay. Screenmade is a widget studio packed with 30+ beautiful, fully customizable widgets and a generative wallpaper engine to match. Pick a widget and make it yours: choose colors, fonts, backgrounds, and layouts until it fits your screen perfectly. FOUR SURFACES, ONE STYLE • Home Screen - small, medium, large, and extra-large widgets • Lock Screen - inline, circular, and rectangular widgets • StandBy - oversized, glanceable widgets made to read across the room, including a calm night mode • CarPlay - widgets made for car lovers TAP TO PLAY Some widgets do more than sit there. Play songs on the Piano, tap out grooves on the Drum Pad, pop a sheet of Bubble Wrap, log a glass on the Water Tracker, shake the Fortune Ball, or feed your Virtual Pet - with real sound, right from the widget. Check off habits and groceries, or launch an app or contact in a single tap. No need to open the app. MAKE IT YOURS • Background styles like Tinted, Solid, Mesh, Radial, Duotone, and Gloss • A curated color palette plus custom colors, and a set of typefaces (rounded, serif, modern, italic, mono) • Hand-tuned presets for every widget, so you can start from a look you love and make it your own GENERATIVE WALLPAPERS Create one-of-a-kind wallpapers with a library of art engines - Mesh, Marble, Stripes, Bauhaus, Topographic, Bokeh, Northern Lights, and more - in tones that match your vibe. Export for any iPhone or iPad. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Turn on optional iCloud sync to carry your widget setups between iPhone and iPad. Your photos stay on your device. Free to download. Built for iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Widget at daily against Screenmade's every 5 days. The Widget also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Screenmade's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Widget holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Screenmade has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
The Widget ships an update daily, Screenmade every 5 days. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.
| Parameter | The Widget | Screenmade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHUN WEI FAN | SmartMood LLC |
Customer experience
The Widget
Screenmade
In-app purchases
The Widget
No in-app purchases
Screenmade
No in-app purchases
