Comparison

Simple Text Widget vs Widgetik

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

Head to head
About

Simple Text Widget

Add important notes, goals, or to-do lists directly to your Lock Screen or Home Screen. Keep crucial information visible at a glance with customizable widgets for daily reminders or motivational quotes.

Highlights
  • Add notes to Lock Screen
  • Add notes to Home Screen
  • Customizable widgets
  • Instant updates
  • Keep info visible
  • Personalize screen
Features
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Never Forget What Matters! Easily add important notes, goals, or to-do lists to your Lock Screen or Home Screen with customizable widgets. Whether it’s a daily reminder, a motivational quote, or a task list, keep it right where you’ll see it! Quick & Easy – Just tap the widget to update instantly. Stay Organized – Keep important info always visible. Personalize Your Screen – Make your reminders stand out. Download now and make your Lock Screen & Home Screen work for you!

About

Widgetik

Personalize your iPhone Home and Lock Screens with a wide array of aesthetic and interactive widgets. Track habits, monitor progress, display photos, and stay organized with customizable designs that match your style.

Highlights
  • Interactive widgets for daily routines
  • Log progress directly from widgets
  • Apple Health integration
  • Advanced customization options
  • Lock Screen widgets
  • Variety of widget types
Features
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Beautiful, interactive widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen and iPad. Log water, check off habits and tasks, start a focus session or feed your aquarium fish right from the widget, without opening the app. Then make every widget your own with colors, gradients and fonts, or let your wallpaper show through. HABITS & WELLNESS • Habit Tracker: tick off daily habits with a tap and keep your streak going. • Habit Streak: your current streak and this week at a glance. • Habit Counter (Premium): count sets, reps or any daily goal, one tap at a time. • Hydration: log water in one tap and follow your daily goal. • Mindfulness: track meditation, breathing and mindful minutes. • Focus Timer (Premium): start, pause and reset focus sessions from the widget. • Step Counter: your daily steps from Apple Health. PLAN YOUR DAY • Agenda & Day Planner (Premium): see what's on now, how long until your next event, and the days ahead. • Daily Dashboard: time, your next countdown, steps, water and mindfulness in one widget. • Interactive Checklist: keep tasks, routines and groceries on your Home Screen and check them off there. • Event Countdown: count down to trips, birthdays, exams and big moments. • Upcoming Birthdays (Premium): upcoming birthdays, ages and days remaining. • Month Calendar and Week Strip: the month or the current week at a glance. • Progress Tracker: see how far through the week, month, season or year you are, or follow a step or personal goal. CLOCKS • Digital Watch, Analog Watch and Emoji Clock: a clock face in your style. • World Clock: the time in the cities you care about. JUST FOR FUN • Aquarium: a small tank of fish to feed and keep clean. • Zen Garden (Premium): water your plant and watch it grow. • Daily Quote and Daily Inspiration: a fresh quote every day. • Photo: pin a favorite photo or rotate through a collection. • Moon Phase: follow the current lunar phase. • Battery: your battery level at a glance. LOCK SCREEN, CONTROL CENTER & IPAD • Lock Screen widgets for the date, calendar, progress, steps, water, battery and world time. • Control Center controls to log water, check off a habit or start a focus session. • Extra Large widgets on iPad for Agenda, Aquarium and Daily Dashboard. MAKE IT YOURS Choose solid colors or gradients, themes, fonts and text colors, and see every change in a live preview. With Transparent Backgrounds (Premium), Agenda, Daily Quote and Battery blend into your wallpaper: take two screenshots and Widgetik lines each widget up with the wallpaper behind it. APPLE HEALTH Widgetik uses HealthKit to show your steps and, if you turn it on, to save water you log in Widgetik to Apple Health. WIDGETIK PREMIUM Widgetik is free to download and includes ads. A one-time Premium purchase removes ads and unlocks Agenda, Upcoming Birthdays, Habit Counter, Focus Timer, Zen Garden, extra fonts, custom text colors and Transparent Backgrounds. No subscription. Your habits, health data, calendar and photos stay on your device.

Screenshots

Simple Text Widget4 screens
Widgetik4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Text Widget at none against Widgetik's 1. Simple Text Widget also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (651 vs 63). Widgetik's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (86% vs 64%). On price, rating, 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. Widgetik sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Text Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Simple Text Widget against 4.6 for Widgetik. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Text Widget has 651 ratings behind it against 63, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Simple Text Widget's written reviews are positive against 86% of Widgetik's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Text Widget ships an update every 2 months, Widgetik every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Simple Text Widget versus Widgetik: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Text WidgetWidgetik
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (651 ratings)4.6 (63 ratings)
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings651 — better63
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.118 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCeylonLabs Technologies Pvt LtdANDREI RUSTI

Customer experience

Simple Text Widget

All ratings651 ratings
Positive88.5%
Neutral4.1%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative36.4%

Widgetik

All ratings63 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.1%

In-app purchases

None

Simple Text Widget

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Widgetik

One-time1
  • Premium version$1.99

Questions

Is Simple Text Widget free?
Simple Text Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Widgetik free?
Widgetik is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simple Text Widget or Widgetik?
Simple Text Widget and Widgetik are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 651 and 63 ratings respectively.
Do Simple Text Widget or Widgetik have ads?
Widgetik shows ads; Simple Text Widget does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Text Widget or Widgetik?
Simple Text Widget ships an update every 2 months, and Widgetik every 6 days. Most recently, Simple Text Widget was updated on October 13, 2026 and Widgetik on October 14, 2026.

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