Comparison

MeshCraft vs WhyNot Widgets

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

Head to head
About

MeshCraft

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MeshCraft is a free iPhone and iPad app for creating mesh gradients, wallpapers, backgrounds, and abstract visuals in minutes. Build colorful art for your Lock Screen, Home Screen, social posts, design mockups, presentations, mood boards, and personal creative projects. Start from a ready-made size, refine every mesh point, then export a polished image sized for your device or your own canvas. Create gradients your way: • Choose device, square, or custom output sizes. • Move mesh points directly to shape the composition. • Replace colors and explore color harmonies. • Discover richer palette suggestions with Apple Intelligence and, on iOS 27, Private Cloud Compute when available. • Add overlays, portrait depth overlays, and image filters. • Undo and redo edits while you experiment. Keep your work close: • Save creations in your local library. • Search your library by name, color, or mood, and find creations in Spotlight. • Filter saved designs by size. • Export and share finished wallpapers to Photos. • Discover tips that help you explore more of the editor. Use Shortcuts for quick gradient creation and wallpaper routines. On iOS 27, ask Siri to open a creation by name. Whether you make abstract art, custom wallpapers, design backgrounds, or fresh visuals for everyday projects, MeshCraft gives you a focused creative space for color, motion, and depth.

About

WhyNot Widgets

Organize your most-used apps into a single widget for quick access. Customize the appearance and choose from various pre-designed clock and utility widgets to personalize your Home Screen.

Highlights
  • Launch up to nine apps from a single widget
  • Customizable widget styles and layouts
  • Native app icon display
  • Pre-designed analog and digital clock widgets
  • Hand-drawn, artistic widget designs
  • One-time purchase packs for expanded features
Features
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Nine apps. One widget. One tap. WhyNot puts a tiny app drawer on your Home Screen. Pick up to nine apps, choose a style, and every one of them launches with a single tap. No folders to open. Many apps launch straight from the widget, the rest pass through WhyNot for a moment, and the picker tells you which is which. BUILD IT YOUR WAY • Up to nine apps in the smallest widget size. One app or nine, the layout adapts. • Light and Dark show the real app icons, as they look on a light or a dark Home Screen. Mono and Ghost are two quieter looks. • Fill, or anchor the drawer to a corner for a folder-like cluster. • Hold a tile and drag it to rearrange. CLOCKS WITH CHARACTER • Dial: a quiet analog clock inspired by classic industrial design. Small, medium, and a large desk clock with your week laid out underneath. • Flip: a split-flap clock that rolls over on the minute. • Almanac: the month on a card, in Flip's material. Two keys turn the pages, the name brings today back. Free. • Every widget is built for light mode, dark mode, and the Clear look. Pin any widget to always light or always dark, whatever your phone is set to. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT Every widget is drawn by hand, with real shadows, real materials, and one light source. Nothing is a template. Nothing is a screenshot of something else. PACKS (one-time purchases) • Halo: three screens on one large instrument, your wallpaper showing through. Home has the week, what is next and today's steps, Move and Exercise from Health with the goals. Next has the coming events and reminders, with a countdown. Outside has the weather from sunrise to sunset, hour by hour and four days out. The keys switch screens; a slider sets how much wallpaper shows. • Quartz: a desk clock from the nineties, in seven cases from olive to cream. A window for the date, the day or the temperature, numerals in figures or Roman. Tap to open Clock. • Vinyl: your record on a turntable, drawn after the classic Braun deck. The album artwork is the label, the record turns while Apple Music plays, the arm lifts when it stops, and back, play and next work from the widget. Small is the platter, medium is the whole deck. • Tally: a desk calculator from the seventies, on your Home Screen. Every key works. Small for quick sums, large for the whole instrument. Keeps the last result. • Frontpage: your day as a newspaper front page, in the tall widget size that arrived with iOS 27. The next event is the headline, more events and your reminders run in columns, real headlines from a source you choose or your own feed fill the fold, and tomorrow's weather closes the page. Three newspaper typefaces, newsprint grain, pressed type. • Console: your day at a glance. What is next and how long until it, the week ahead, and the sky, one tap apart on the widget. Every block opens Calendar or Weather directly. • Golden: when the light will be good. Golden hour and blue hour for where you are, on one living sky where the sun rises and sets across your Home Screen. The time is lit by the light of the moment. Tap to open the Camera. • WhyNot Pro: Scenes, your drawer set in a place, with the apps that belong there. Glass, the drawer on a frosted panel with your wallpaper showing through. Unlimited drawers, each widget showing a different one. Gradient backgrounds inspired by iPhone finishes or your own two colors. Buy once, keep forever. No subscriptions. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No analytics. Your drawers live on your phone and nowhere else. Console, Golden, Frontpage and Halo use your approximate location for Apple Weather and, if you allow it, your calendars and reminder lists. Halo reads today's Health figures on your phone, only if you allow it. A feed you add is fetched by your phone, not by us. Nothing about you ever reaches us. WhyNot is made by This is E.

Screenshots

MeshCraft4 screens
WhyNot Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: WhyNot Widgets at every 2 days against MeshCraft's every 4 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MeshCraft sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and WhyNot Widgets sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MeshCraft ships an update every 4 months, WhyNot Widgets every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
MeshCraft versus WhyNot Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeshCraftWhyNot Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—61.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDamien LegrandIskren Georgiev

In-app purchases

7 purchases

MeshCraft

One-time7
  • Coffee Coins$0.99
  • Snack Stack$1.99
  • Caffeine Boost$2.99
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  • Lunch Buddy$4.99
  • Pizza Power$8.99
  • Gadget Gear$12.99
  • Big Supporter$19.99
8 purchases

WhyNot Widgets

One-time8
  • Tally$5.99
  • Vinyl$5.99
  • Quartz$5.99
Show 5 more
  • Golden$5.99
  • Frontpage$9.99
  • Halo$9.99
  • WhyNot Pro$9.99
  • Console$9.99

Questions

Is MeshCraft free?
MeshCraft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WhyNot Widgets free?
WhyNot Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MeshCraft or WhyNot Widgets have ads?
Neither MeshCraft nor WhyNot Widgets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MeshCraft or WhyNot Widgets?
MeshCraft ships an update every 4 months, and WhyNot Widgets every 2 days. Most recently, MeshCraft was updated on September 27, 2026 and WhyNot Widgets on October 11, 2026.

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