NewThing Widgets Pro vs Backtick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NewThing Widgets Pro
Enhance your iPhone's home screen with over 100 customizable widgets and matching wallpapers. Choose from diverse categories like clocks, music, and photos to create a personalized and aesthetically pleasing layout. Enjoy seamless integration with light, dark, and liquid glass modes for a unified look.
- 100+ beautiful widgets
- 20+ unique categories
- Light, dark & liquid glass modes
- Music and photo widgets
- Matching wallpapers
- Easy customization
- Regular updates
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Transform your iPhone with 100+ stunning widgets and beautiful wallpapers designed for every style. From clock widgets and photo widgets to music widgets and aesthetic themes, everything is built to make your home screen smarter, cleaner, and more beautiful.Explore 20+ unique categories and create a home screen that truly feels yours. ◆ Key Features ◆ 100+ Beautiful Widgets Discover a large collection of stylish and functional widgets. ◆ 20+ Unique Categories Clocks, Photos, Music, Battery, Quotes, Contacts, Calculator, Weather, Notes & Lists, Events, World Clocks, Calendar, Compass, Screen Time, Pedometer, Search, and more. ◆ Light, Dark & Liquid Glass Modes Widgets automatically adapt to your iPhone appearance. ◆ Liquid Glass Tint Support Perfectly match widgets with your iPhone theme. ◆ Music Widgets Control and view music from Apple Music & Spotify directly on your home screen. ◆ Photo Widgets Showcase your favorite photos and memories beautifully. ◆ Beautiful Wallpapers Pair widgets with matching wallpapers for the perfect setup. ◆ Easy Customization Adjust widgets and create layouts your way. ◆ Smooth & Lightweight Optimized for performance and battery efficiency. ◆ Regular Updates New widgets and features added frequently. ◆ Why You'll Love It - Modern iPhone widgets for every aesthetic - Perfect for home screen customization - Clean, minimal, and elegant designs - Fast and easy setup -Designed for modern iOS widget layouts ◆ Make Your Home Screen Yours Create beautiful layouts using widgets, photos, wallpapers, and music controls. Download now and start building a home screen that looks amazing every day. ◆ Privacy First Your privacy is important to us. We collect only the minimal data necessary to provide a smooth experience. Learn more in our Privacy Policy: https://appslab.co/PrivacyPolicy/iNewThingWidgetsPro
Backtick
Transform your home and lock screens into a functional terminal. Display real-time data like calendar events, weather, and system status, or integrate with your GitHub and focus sessions. Customize with various themes and interactive widgets.
- Functional terminal display
- Live data integration (calendar, weather, GitHub)
- Full-page and console widgets
- Interactive widgets with tap actions
- Customizable themes
- Lock screen and StandBy support
- Shortcuts and Siri integration
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Backtick turns your home and lock screen into a terminal. Not a picture of one — a working one. Panels drawn with hairline rules, a tab bar you actually tap, a cursor that genuinely blinks, and your real life inside it: calendar, reminders, weather, steps, battery — and now your GitHub, your focus sessions and anything your automations want to say. FULL-PAGE WIDGETS (iOS 27) The Terminal fills an entire home screen page — now, next up, tasks, weather and system as one live session. The Console goes full page too, with bit idling above the menu. THE WIDGETS — 35 OF THEM • Terminal — five panels switched by tapping tabs on the widget; small, medium, large and full page • Console — a navigable menu: arrows move, enter selects, esc backs out, without opening an app • git log — your GitHub contribution graph, streak and recent activity • focus — one tap starts a timer, with a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island • curl — any number from a JSON endpoint you choose, with a sparkline of recent values • echo — shows whatever you send it from Shortcuts; build automations that write to your home and lock screen • Weather — current, hourly and forecast; the small one pages when you tap it • Clock — a live 7-segment face with ticking seconds, zero battery cost, 12h or 24h • Countdown — days to a date you pick; ticks live on the final day, counts up after • Daylight — sunrise to sunset as a gauge, golden hour, light left • Year Progress — every day of the year as a dot; watch it fill • Elapsed — day, week, month and year as block gauges • Month — the full month with event markers • Timeline — upcoming events with durations drawn to scale • Steps — today's count and distance, with the week as bars • Disk — storage as a block gauge • Moon — tonight's phase as a dot matrix • motd — a daily line from bit, free • bit — a resident terminal creature. It has moods, it types little lines, its heartbeat blinks, and it reacts when you poke it. Bond over time. LOCK SCREEN Nine rectangular widgets (next up, tasks, weather, forecast, hourly, elapsed, battery, daylight, echo), six circular gauges, and inline status lines. STANDBY Charge your phone on its side and the Terminal, Weather, Clock and bit widgets switch to big, glanceable layouts you can read from across the room. THEMES Six full terminal palettes — Dracula, Gruvbox, Nord, Solarized, Catppuccin and Tokyo Night — or classic true black with one of five accent phosphors. Every widget follows instantly. SHORTCUTS, SIRI & CONTROL CENTER • "Set Backtick Message" puts any text on the echo widgets — when you arrive at work, when your battery runs low, whenever • Start or stop a focus session from Siri, Shortcuts or Control Center • Tick your top task, poke bit, or jump to your agenda from Control Center or the Action button BUILT LIKE A TOOL • Tick reminders off from the widget — writes straight to Apple Reminders • Tap a section to open YOUR apps: choose which calendar, reminders and weather apps widget taps launch • Battery, weather and steps refresh in the background through the day • Live clocks, countdowns and a blinking cursor with zero widget refreshes • True black. Made for OLED and dark home screens. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION • No account, no sign-in, no Backtick server — there isn't one • Calendar, reminders, steps and device stats are read on-device via Apple's frameworks • Weather comes from Apple Weather using your approximate location • git log and curl talk only to the addresses you give them; an optional GitHub token stays in your phone's keychain • Nothing is collected. There is nowhere to collect it to. FREE / PRO The Terminal widget, Next Up, the inline status line, motd and the classic amber theme are free forever. One purchase unlocks everything else — every widget, every palette — no subscription, no upsell treadmill. — Privacy policy: https://backtick.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://backtick.app/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Backtick at Free against NewThing Widgets Pro's $0.99. Backtick also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). NewThing Widgets Pro's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Backtick is free to download; NewThing Widgets Pro costs $0.99 up front. NewThing Widgets Pro sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Backtick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NewThing Widgets Pro ships an update daily, Backtick weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NewThing Widgets Pro | Backtick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AppsLab Co. | Elvis Mederos |
Customer experience
NewThing Widgets Pro
Backtick
In-app purchases
NewThing Widgets Pro
- Buy me a Coffee$1.99
- Buy me a Pizza$3.99
- Buy me a Dinner$9.99
Backtick
- Pro$4.99
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