Pockets vs WidgText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pockets
This app helps you manage your money using the envelope budgeting method. It features AI-powered receipt scanning, customizable widgets, and detailed spending insights, all while prioritizing your privacy by storing data locally on your device.
- Envelope budgeting
- AI receipt scanner
- Flexible budget cycles
- Home screen widgets
- Personal finance insights
- Private data storage
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Pockets is a friendly envelope budgeting app for planning income, keeping spending visible, and building savings goals without linking a bank account. PLAN YOUR MONEY • Set an income and divide it among flexible envelopes • Choose weekly, monthly, or custom budget periods • Carry unused money forward with optional rollover LOG EXPENSES HANDS-FREE WITH SIRI • Say "Hey Siri, log my expenses in Pockets" and tell it what you spent • Log several at once: "40 on groceries and 20 on transport" • Not sure which envelope? Siri asks, and reads the options aloud • Use Shortcuts actions to log expenses or open an envelope • Find your envelopes in Spotlight search TRACK WITH LESS FRICTION • Add expenses and income in seconds • Scan receipts on your device • Share a receipt to Pockets from another app • Schedule recurring transactions SEE WHERE YOU STAND • Check your available balance and envelope progress • Explore spending stats and income-versus-expense trends • Review weekly activity and transaction history • Follow savings goals from target to progress MAKE IT YOURS • Choose from Pockets themes • See useful summaries in Home Screen widgets • Pick from a broad range of currencies • Use light or dark appearance Pip is there to make budgeting feel a little more human. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/0c0543ba-c6b0-45f7-8cb3-7eeaec86ba89
WidgText
Customize your device's home and lock screens with personalized text widgets. Choose from various fonts, colors, and styles to display quotes, reminders, or goals. The app offers multiple independent widgets and a quote rotation feature for daily inspiration.
- Multiple independent text widgets
- Extensive font and color customization
- Gradient and border styling options
- Quote rotation for daily content
- Live preview for easy editing
- Personalized app icon options
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Made for iPhone Duo, and every iPhone. Open your iPhone Duo and give one calm thought two facing pages. Choose what your words look like in StandBy. WidgText brings daily affirmations, mindful quotes, and your own reminders to your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy. No streaks, guilt, or badges. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO • Book Spread with Pro: Create two widgets as facing pages, like an open book. Split a message across them or answer it with a gentle reflection, with a mirrored background on the right. Place the pair side by side on the two Home Screen pages of the open display. • Desk Mode: Choose a StandBy style. Minimal shows light words on black, free; Pro shows your full design as a card. • A sidebar workspace on the large open display, and familiar tabs when it's closed. Your edits carry over as you open and close it. • On any other iPhone, a Book Spread sits side by side and Desk Mode works in StandBy. LOOKS FOR THE SEASON • Explore seasonal collections of widget designs and mindful words. Earlier collections stay in the archive. • Start with free designs, choose an optional rewarded ad to keep a featured look, or unlock Pro collection designs. MORE PLACES FOR YOUR WORDS • Add a free one-line quote above the Lock Screen clock. Longer words may be shortened to fit. • Open Widget 1's editor with a free Control Center control on iOS 18 or later. MAKE IT YOURS • Write your own mantra, intention, reminder, or inside joke. • See your widget change as you edit colors, gradients, type, alignment, shadows, and borders. • Preview small, medium, and large Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen styles. iPad adds an Extra Large widget and a sidebar workspace. • Choose from 120 classic mindful messages, plus words in seasonal collections. • Keep one thought, or rotate a list: up to three quotes in Free, unlimited rotating quotes with Pro. • Receive an optional daily mindful notification at a time you choose. SHARE A LITTLE CALM • Export free Stories (1080×1920) or Pinterest (1000×1500) images with a quiet “made with WidgText” mark. Your words are visible in the image; its accompanying links exclude personal text. • Share your look as a design link. Words are excluded by default; include them only if you want anyone with the link to read them. • Recipients preview the look, choose whether to use any shared words, then Save. Pro styles require their own unlocks. New recipients install WidgText, then reopen the design link. FREE TO START. PRO IS ONE PURCHASE. Free includes one widget slot, eight classic themes, all 120 classic messages to choose from, daily thoughts, Desk Mode's minimal style, and free seasonal looks. The free version includes ads. Optional rewarded ads can permanently unlock a second slot and up to five more fonts. WidgText Pro adds Book Spreads, your full design in StandBy, a personal library of named looks saved on this device, Pro collection designs, up to 8 independent widget slots, all 34 fonts, three exclusive classic themes, advanced gradients and borders, grain texture, unlimited rotating quotes, full scheduling, eight alternate app icons, and no ads. One purchase. No subscription. No account is needed. Your widget text and saved looks stay on your device unless you share an image or choose to include words in a design link. Design links are not encrypted. Firebase Analytics measures app use; Google AdMob supports the free version. Your words. Your look. A calmer Home Screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pockets at none against WidgText's shown. WidgText's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Pockets sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and WidgText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pockets against 5.0 for WidgText. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WidgText has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pockets | WidgText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diayan Siat | Aaron Price |
Customer experience
Pockets
WidgText
In-app purchases
Pockets
- Pockets Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Pockets Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pockets Pro Annual$49.991 Year
WidgText
- WidgText Pro$9.99









