Clear Icons vs Widgetik
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clear Icons
Design custom icons that seamlessly match your wallpaper for a personalized home screen aesthetic. This tool allows you to use your own images, reposition icons, and maintain your existing layouts.
- Create transparent icons
- Use gallery images as base
- Crop images to fit device
- Replace wallpapers without losing icon layout
- Reposition icons
- Support for small and large icons
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Create Transparent Icons helps you create icons that blend perfectly with your wallpaper, giving your home screen a clean and aesthetic look. Features: - Choose the image from your gallery to use as a base and crop it if the resolution doesn't match your device. - Replace wallpapers while keeping your existing icon layouts. - Replace wallpaper without disturbing your existing icon layout. - Reposition icons for full customization. - Supports both small and large icons for different layout styles. The app requests storage permission to access your gallery images and to save icons locally. All processing is done on your device—your images never leave your phone. Currently supported devices: iPhone 16 Series (iPhone 16e, 16, 16 Plus, 16 Pro, 16 Pro Max) iPhone 15 Series (iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max) iPhone 14 Series (iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro, 14 Pro Max) iPhone 13 Series (iPhone 13 mini, 13, 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max) iPhone 12 Series (iPhone 12 mini, 12, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max) iPhone 11 Series (iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max) iPhone X Series (iPhone X, XS, XS Max, XR) iPhone SE Series (iPhone SE 3rd generation, SE 2nd generation, SE 1st generation) iPhone SE (1st Gen) If your device isn't listed or you'd like to help speed up support, contact us t support@samuelbeckman.com.
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.
- Interactive widgets for daily routines
- Log progress directly from widgets
- Apple Health integration
- Advanced customization options
- Lock Screen widgets
- Variety of widget types
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Widgetik at Free against Clear Icons's $1.99. Widgetik also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.1) and review sentiment (86% vs 45%). Clear Icons's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
Widgetik is free to download; Clear Icons costs $1.99 up front. Widgetik sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clear Icons asks for nothing beyond the download.
Widgetik holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widgetik has 63 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Clear Icons's written reviews are positive against 86% of Widgetik's.
Clear Icons ships an update every 2 weeks, Widgetik every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clear Icons | Widgetik |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (10 ratings) | 4.6 (63 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sam Beckman Pty Ltd | ANDREI RUSTI |
Customer experience
Clear Icons
Widgetik
In-app purchases
Clear Icons
No in-app purchases
Widgetik
- Premium version$1.99
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