Any Text Widgets vs Widgetik
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Any Text Widgets
Display custom text, tasks, or handwriting directly on your lock screen or home screen. Keep reminders, goals, and notes always visible with customizable widgets.
- 15 Text Widgets
- Text, Task, and Handwriting Modes
- Customizable Widget Appearance
- Interactive Checklists
- Freehand Drawing and Sketching
- One-Tap Editing
- Shortcuts Integration
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Put any text, tasks, or handwriting on your lock screen or home screen - keep your reminders, goals, to-do lists and notes always visible! Features - 30 Text Widgets - Place different content on various Lock Screen configurations or Home Screen layouts - 3 Widget Modes - Switch between Text, Task, and Handwriting modes for each widget TEXT MODE - Quick Notes - Perfect for reminders, quotes, passwords, or any text you want to see at a glance - Full Widget Customization - Custom background colors, background images, font colors, text styles, and sizes - Lock Screen Effects - Typewriter effect makes text appear character by character TASK MODE - Interactive Checklists - Check off completed tasks with a simple tap - Smart Sorting - Uncompleted items automatically stay on top - Drag to Reorder - Organize your priorities with drag and drop HANDWRITING MODE - Free Drawing - Write, sketch, or draw anything with your finger - Creative Freedom - Perfect for quick doodles, diagrams, signatures, or artistic expressions ADVANCED FEATURES - One-Tap Editing - Simply tap any widget to open the app and edit your content instantly - Advanced Tap Actions - Edit content, open a specific URL, run a Shortcut, or disable tap actions completely - Shortcuts Integration - Create powerful automations to dynamically update your widget content based on time, location, or any trigger you define - Timed Widget - Schedule different widgets to automatically rotate by time of day, set custom time slots to display the right content at the right moment Support available through App Suggestions in settings.
Widgetik
Personalize your device with interactive widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Track habits, log water, manage tasks, and display clocks or fun elements like a virtual aquarium. Customize appearance with colors, gradients, and fonts.
- Interactive widgets
- Habit tracking
- Water logging
- Task management
- Customizable appearance
- Focus timer
- Event countdowns
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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, and follow the countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • 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. • Cat: a little cat that gets up to mischief all day. Pet it, feed it and play with it. • 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. • Sun & Daylight: sunrise, sunset, golden hour and day length for your city. • 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, world time and sunrise or sunset. • Control Center controls to log water, check off a habit or start a focus session. • Extra Large widgets on iPad for Agenda, Aquarium, Cat and Daily Dashboard, and for most widgets on iPhone with iOS 27. 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), nearly every widget blends 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 review sentiment: Widgetik at 74% against Any Text Widgets's 32%. Widgetik also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 weeks) and rating (4.6 vs 4.4). Any Text Widgets's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (626 vs 70). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Any Text Widgets sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Widgetik sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Widgetik holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Any Text Widgets has 626 ratings behind it against 70, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Any Text Widgets's written reviews are positive against 74% of Widgetik's.
Any Text Widgets ships an update every 5 weeks, Widgetik every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Any Text Widgets | Widgetik |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (626 ratings) | 4.6 (70 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.3% of reviews | 74.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 626 — better | 70 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 喜兰 梁 | ANDREI RUSTI |
Customer experience
Any Text Widgets
Widgetik
In-app purchases
Any Text Widgets
- Lifetime Promo$2.99
- Lifetime$3.99
Widgetik
- Premium version$1.99
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