Comparison

Void Widgets vs Dotwall

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

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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

Dotwall

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Dotwall turns your lock screen into a dot matrix. Type anything, up to 90 characters, and Dotwall draws it in dots at this iPhone's exact pixel size. Or let the dots be the year, one for every day, with today lit up in your colour. Or your life in weeks, one dot for every week you have had and every week still ahead. Three kinds of wallpaper: Words: any text, drawn as a dot-matrix wallpaper. Year: 12 columns for the months, 31 rows for the days. Past days lit, today in the accent colour. Tap any dot to read its date. Life: 52 weeks across, 60 to 100 years down. The current week is the coloured one. Tap a dot to read its week. Your birthday stays on this iPhone. Eight looks: Halftone, Board, Quiet, Pixel, Gradient, Neon, Flipdot and Stipple. Any ground colour, from black, graphite and navy to paper and cream, and any dot colour, from a swatch or the system colour picker. Eight accents, and sixteen app icons to match. The preview is your lock screen. The date, the clock and the two bottom buttons are drawn over the wallpaper, so you see the finished screen before you save. Drag the dots up or down to move them out from under the clock, pinch to size them, swipe sideways for the next look, tap to hide the clock. The Place tray has Move and Size sliders if you prefer those. Save draws the wallpaper at this iPhone's native pixel size and adds it to Photos as a PNG. Then Photos, Share, Use as Wallpaper. iOS does not let an app set the wallpaper itself; Photos is the two-tap hand-off. Keep Year and Life current with Shortcuts. Dotwall gives Shortcuts an action, Get Today's Dotwall, that returns today's image at this iPhone's size. A daily automation at 00:05 that runs Get Today's Dotwall and then Set Wallpaper Photo keeps today's dot moving. The recipe is in Settings. A Home Screen widget, Year in dots, in small, medium and large, drawn in your look and ground colour and redrawn every day. Private by design. Dotwall has no account, no sync and no networking code at all. Your words, your birthday and your colours stay on this iPhone, in the app. The wallpaper is drawn here and saved to your own Photos with add-only access: Dotwall can add photos, never read them. No subscription, no in-app purchases. Requires iOS 26. iPhone only.

Screenshots

Void Widgets4 screens
Dotwall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dotwall at none against Void Widgets's 4. Void Widgets's advantage is chart position (#204 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Void Widgets sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Dotwall asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Void Widgets versus Dotwall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoid WidgetsDotwall
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (90 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings90 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#204 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYeasir ArafatShubham Dolas

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
None

Dotwall

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Void Widgets free?
Void Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dotwall free?
Dotwall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Void Widgets or Dotwall have ads?
Neither Void Widgets nor Dotwall shows ads.

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