Comparison

Void Widgets vs Hex Code Tiles

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 device's home and lock screens with over 30 unique, custom-designed widgets. Explore retro pixel art, Morse code clocks, and detailed weather forecasts to personalize your experience.

Highlights
  • Exclusive clock designs (Morse code, dot matrix, word clock)
  • Smart calendar widgets (event preview, month grid)
  • Lock screen widgets (weather, sunset time)
  • Day progress tracker with customizable time ranges
  • Detailed weather forecasts and current conditions
  • Retro, minimalist, and futuristic aesthetic categories
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

Hex Code Tiles

Discover and explore over 35,000 named hex colors, perceptually arranged for visual similarity. Easily copy color codes, view details, and organize favorites. Offers various browsing and grid customization options for a personalized color discovery experience.

Highlights
  • 35,000+ named hex colors
  • Perceptually arranged colors
  • One-tap copy (hex, RGB, HSL)
  • Full-screen color view
  • Browse by hue or shade
  • Customizable grid layout
  • Offline access
Features
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Hex Code Tiles is a color finder for everyone who lives in color. 35,000+ named hex colors, arranged so neighbors actually look like neighbors. Scroll, tap, copy. Find the exact shade you didn't know you were looking for — for a design, a paint job, a website, a sticker, a sweater, a sunset you can't stop thinking about. It's not a clinical picker. It's a place to spend time. — A WHOLE WORLD OF COLOR — • 35,000+ named hex colors, drawn from the most respected color libraries • Perceptually arranged: similar colors really do sit next to each other • Smooth, endless, satisfying to scroll • Light and dark modes — both gorgeous • Universal: native on iPhone and iPad — TAP ANY TILE — • Instant card: name, hex, RGB, HSL • One-tap copy in any format • Beautiful full-screen view — perfect for sharing or staring at • Long-press to favorite — your collection follows you everywhere — FIND IT YOUR WAY — • Browse by hue: reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, purples, pinks, neutrals • Or by named shade: Salmon, Rose, Crimson, Cantaloupe, Tea Rose, Mexican Pink, hundreds more • 8 free curated collections: Pastels, Neon, Earth Tones, Ocean, Sunset, Black & White, Jewel Tones, Skin Tones • Search by name — "coral", "teal", "mauve" • Or paste a hex — #FF2841 lands you right there — SHAPE THE GRID — • Cohesive, Balanced, or Diverse — set how the tiles relate to each other • Grid sizes from cozy 7×11 to dense 11×15 • Tile borders on or off — your call • Tap any tile and the entire palette retunes around it — HEX CODE TILES PRO — A single $4.99 unlock. No subscription. No recurring charges. Restores on any device signed into your Apple ID. For when you want the whole toolkit: • 8 premium collections — Autumn, Spring, Winter, Retro, Wedding, Military, Japanese Traditional, Wikipedia Colors • Color Harmonies — Complementary, Triadic, Analogous, Split Complementary, generated live • Accessibility checker — WCAG contrast ratings at a glance • Custom grid sizes — fine-tune from 5×7 to 11×15 • Pro gradient themes — Sunset, Ocean, Aurora • All future Pro features included, forever — BUILT BY HAND — Made by one developer who got tired of every color picker on the App Store and wanted something that felt like a real place. Every color has a hand-checked name. The grid is generated by a perceptual model in CIELAB color space, not alphabetical order or hex distance. Animations are tuned to feel like rippling water. Sound is optional, dynamic, and never intrusive. — PRIVACY BY DEFAULT — • No accounts, no sign-in, ever • No tracking, no analytics, no ads • No third-party SDKs of any kind • Fully offline — the entire color database ships inside the app • Your favorites stay on your device Hex Code Tiles communicates with Apple's App Store and nothing else. — FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN COLOR — Designers and developers. Painters and illustrators. Photographers, brand teams, knitters, tattoo artists, decorators. Kids who love rainbows, adults who never stopped. Anyone who's ever wanted to find a color and felt let down by every picker on the App Store. Free forever for casual browsing. Pro when you want the whole toolkit.

Screenshots

Void Widgets4 screens
Hex Code Tiles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Void Widgets at 92 against Hex Code Tiles's 1. Hex Code Tiles's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Hex Code Tiles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hex Code Tiles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Void Widgets has 92 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Void Widgets versus Hex Code Tiles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoid WidgetsHex Code Tiles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (92 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings92 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYeasir ArafatAlexander Knigge

Customer experience

Void Widgets

All ratings87 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral4.6%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive64.9%
Neutral13.5%
Negative21.6%

Hex Code Tiles

All ratings1 ratings
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
1 purchases

Hex Code Tiles

One-time1
  • Hex Code Tiles Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Void Widgets free?
Void Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hex Code Tiles free?
Hex Code Tiles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Void Widgets or Hex Code Tiles?
Hex Code Tiles is rated higher. Void Widgets averages 4.8 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while Hex Code Tiles averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Void Widgets or Hex Code Tiles have ads?
Neither Void Widgets nor Hex Code Tiles shows ads.

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