Comparison

Void Widgets vs Skycast

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

Head to head
About

Void Widgets

Enhance your iPhone's home and lock screens with over 50 unique, retro-inspired widgets. Display time in creative ways like Morse code or pixel art, track your progress, view weather, and monitor health data with a distinct aesthetic.

Highlights
  • 50+ hand-crafted retro widgets
  • Morse code and pixel art clocks
  • Weather and calendar tracking
  • Health and activity monitoring
  • Home and Lock Screen support
  • Regularly updated designs
  • Multiple widget sizes
Features
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Beautiful Home Screen & Lock Screen Widgets You Won't Find Anywhere Else Void Widgets brings 50+ hand-crafted widgets to your iPhone — morse code clocks, dot-matrix displays, retro pixel art, weather, calendars, health tracking, and our brand-new Grizz Pack. Mix, match, and make your screens truly yours. CLOCK WIDGETS - MORSE Watch: Tell time in dots and dashes - Dot Clock: Crisp NDOT 47 dot-matrix time - Glyph Clock: Pixel HH/MM with an animated seconds digit - Dual Tone Clock: Bold two-color analog face - Pebble Watch: Time written out in words, Pebble-style - Dayloader Clock: Watch your day fill up with a color gradient - Dayloader Clock Dot: Dot-matrix take on the day loader - Minimal Date Time: Clean time + date with a red accent - Time & Date: Compact time and date together - Day & Date: Big day name and number at a glance - Time: Ultra-minimal single time display CALENDAR & PROGRESS WIDGETS - Events & Date: Your next appointments up front - Event Timeline: Today, tomorrow & later, beautifully bucketed - Minimal Calendar: Clean iOS-style 2-week view - Analog Clock Calendar: Classic clock face over a month grid - Retro Calendar: Pixel-art month (Small & Large) - Retro Date Calendar: Retro date with week overview - Year Progress: Every day of the year as dots - Retro Progress: Track day, week, month & year in dot-matrix WEATHER WIDGETS - Current Weather: Conditions, temp, and daily high/low - Weather Forecast: Next hours at a glance - Weekly Weather: Up to a 6-day forecast - Retro Weekly Forecast: Pixel-styled 7-day strip - Modern Weather Calendar: Weather fused with your week - Weather Dashboard: Full-screen temps, charts & sun bar (Large) - Luminous: Clock, weather, forecast & events in one (Large) - Sunrise / Sunset / Sun Times: Golden-light moments, simply shown - Golden Hour: Morning & evening golden-hour windows HEALTH & ACTIVITY WIDGETS See your day's movement at a glance — all read straight from Apple Health and kept private on your device. - Health At Glance: Steps, calories, heart rate & battery around a live clock - Pulse Dots: Steps, calories, heart rate & distance in retro dots - Steps: Daily step count with goal streak - Weekly Steps: 7-day bar chart on a film-strip border GRIZZ PACK (NEW!) - Sequence: 35mm film-strip aesthetic with week/month/year progress and a viewfinder calendar - Glyph Eyes: Playful animated blinking eyes for your home screen LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Glanceable info without unlocking: - Today's Weather & Hourly Forecast - Calendar Grid & Next Event - Sun Times & Golden Hour - Year Progress & daily Steps WHAT MAKES VOID DIFFERENT - Morse code time — found nowhere else - Exclusive NDOT 47 pixel typography across the app - Word-based and dot-matrix designs inspired by classic hardware - Dayloader: turn any time range into a visual progress bar - Authentic retro pixel aesthetic - Fresh designs added regularly KEY FEATURES - Sizes for Small, Medium & Large - Home Screen AND Lock Screen widgets - 13 color themes + per-widget tinting - Dark mode optimized - No ads, no tracking - Health data stays on-device, never shared - Works offline with low battery usage SIMPLE SETUP Long-press your Home or Lock Screen > Tap + or Customize > Select Void Widgets > Pick your style. PREMIUM ACCESS Unlock every widget with a free trial. Choose monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase — clock, weather, calendar, health, and Grizz Pack all included. Compatible with iOS 18+ and all iPhone models. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Skycast

Transform your device's screen into a dynamic display of personalized information. Design custom wallpapers with weather, calendar events, health data, and more, all automatically updated through automations.

Highlights
  • Visual editor for layer-by-layer design
  • Real-time weather and personal data integration
  • Customizable fonts, gradients, and effects
  • Automation via Shortcuts app
  • Community theme discovery and sharing
  • JavaScript and Canvas for custom effects
Features
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Create a screen that shows more than just a wallpaper: your weather, your day, your style. Skycast transforms your Lock Screen and Home Screen into dynamic, personalized wallpapers and widgets—designed by you and kept up to date automatically. DESIGN YOUR OWN WALLPAPER Use the visual editor to build your design layer by layer. Add the temperature, weather forecasts, calendar events, reminders, health data, weather icons, photos, shapes, charts, maps, and much more. With more than 700 fonts, gradients, shadows, and an elegant glass effect, every theme can be customized down to the pixel. YOUR OWN HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Design widgets in the same editor—small, medium, large, or extra large. Couple a widget to your wallpaper and it shows exactly the region behind it, so it looks transparent. Or use Liquid Glass, iOS system glass, or your own photo as the backdrop. Clock, calendar, reminders, forecasts, weather alerts, RSS headlines, and Apple Music controls update live inside the widget. Tap actions open apps, links, and Shortcuts directly. Pages and toggleable folders put several views into one widget. AUTOMATICALLY STAY UP TO DATE Connect Skycast to the Shortcuts app and create an automation. Your wallpaper can then refresh in the morning, every hour, or whenever you choose. Widgets fetch weather and news on their own, even when the app is closed. Wake up to a screen that is already up to date. REAL-TIME WEATHER AND PERSONAL DATA Choose from four weather providers: • Open-Meteo — no API key required • The Weather Company • OpenWeatherMap • Pirate Weather Some providers require your own API key. Skycast displays current weather conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, sunrise and sunset times, moon phases, and severe weather alerts. Calendar events, reminders, steps, and location data can also be integrated directly into your designs. FOR EXPLORERS AND CREATORS Browse themes created by the community in the Discover tab or share your own themes—widgets included—via AirDrop. Want to take your designs even further? Create your own effects and interactive widgets using JavaScript and Canvas. Custom weather icon sets and background libraries are included. Join the iNNOVATION Discord community to get help, share your creations, and develop new ideas together. AVAILABLE IN YOUR LANGUAGE Skycast supports 32 languages and automatically adapts to your device language. SKYCAST PRO Unlock all features with a single one-time purchase—including wallpapers for both the Home Screen and Lock Screen, theme import and export, and premium weather providers. No subscription. Pay once and enjoy Skycast Pro. Download your weather. Make your screen.

Screenshots

Void Widgets4 screens
Skycast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Skycast at 100% against Void Widgets's 62%. Skycast also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Void Widgets's advantage is ratings volume (96 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Void Widgets sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Skycast sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Skycast holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Void Widgets has 96 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Void Widgets's written reviews are positive against 100% of Skycast's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Void Widgets ships an update every 2 weeks, Skycast every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Void Widgets versus Skycast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoid WidgetsSkycast
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (96 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings96 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB314 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYeasir ArafatWillem Fasselt

Customer experience

Void Widgets

All ratings96 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive61.9%
Neutral11.9%
Negative26.2%

Skycast

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Void Widgets

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Widgets$1.991 Month
  • Premium Widgets - Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Premium Access$14.99
  • Lifetime Premium Access$19.99
5 purchases

Skycast

One-time5
  • Espresso$0.99
  • Snack$2.99
  • Lunch$3.99
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  • Skycast Pro$5.99
  • Dinner$8.99

Questions

Is Void Widgets free?
Void Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Skycast free?
Skycast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Void Widgets or Skycast?
Skycast is rated higher. Void Widgets averages 4.8 out of 5 from 96 ratings, while Skycast averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Void Widgets or Skycast have ads?
Neither Void Widgets nor Skycast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Void Widgets or Skycast?
Void Widgets ships an update every 2 weeks, and Skycast every 3 weeks. Most recently, Void Widgets was updated on November 6, 2026 and Skycast on November 5, 2026.

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