Comparison

Widget Tank vs Ocean Digest

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

Head to head
About

Widget Tank

Features
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Put your own aquarium on your Home Screen. WidgetTank lets you place any emoji into a tank and watch it swim in your Home Screen widget. Fish, pizza, ghosts, and faces can all swim. Decorate the background with coral, leaves, stars, or any emoji you like. Build a tank that is entirely your own. Tap the widget and the fish scatter. Weather-Linked Backgrounds The tank background changes automatically based on your current or selected area's weather. Sunny / Cloudy / Rainy / Clear Night / Rainy Night Every glance at your Home Screen can reflect the sky outside. Features • Add as many emoji as you want to your tank • Any emoji can swim: faces, food, animals, and more • Place emoji as background decorations too • Weather-linked backgrounds (5 patterns) • Tap to scatter the fish • All widget sizes supported: Small / Medium / Large / Extra Large • No feature gates - everything is free Pricing One tank with full functionality is completely free. No paywalls. No locked features. Want more tanks on your Home Screen? • Tank Pack (+3 tanks): ¥1.99 • Tank Expansion (+6 tanks): $2.99 Line up multiple tanks and turn your Home Screen into an aquarium. Perfect for you if... • You want a Home Screen that feels more alive • You love customizing widgets with personality • You want a tank app with creative freedom • You are interested in weather-reactive widgets • You want your friends to ask "what is that?" • You like things that are calming and a little funny WidgetTank is made by an independent developer. Feedback and bug reports are welcome via App Store reviews.

About

Ocean Digest

Features
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Build a little aquarium, then watch it swim on your Home Screen. Ocean Digest is a living fish tank you design in the app. Pick your fish, arrange coral and shells, choose the water, and your tank moves onto small, medium, large and extra-large widgets where the fish keep swimming all day. BUILD YOUR TANK - Choose from more than 100 fish and sea creatures, from goldfish and guppies to clownfish, seahorses, koi, cichlids and showy bettas whose fins and tails ripple as they swim - Drag props right on your tank and pinch to resize them: coral, sea fans, conch shells, crystals, anchors, treasure chests and more - Pick a tank style named for Trinidad and Tobago: Nylon Pool, Maracas Sunset, Caroni Swamp, Pitch Lake and Bioluminescent Bay - Choose a sand floor (golden, black, white, reef, red, pond mud or rainbow gravel) or open water - Turn on time-of-day light, bubbles, a clock and date, and set fish size and swim speed ON YOUR HOME SCREEN - Live fish on small, medium, large and extra-large widgets - Choose which tank each widget shows - Turn widget animation off any time for a still picture of your tank GLOW IN THE DARK Deep-sea jellyfish, anglerfish and hatchetfish that glow with their own soft light. ONE AQUARIUM, EVERY DEVICE - Your tanks sync through iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV - Change a tank on any device and it updates everywhere - On Mac, watch it in a window or your menu bar; on Apple TV, it fills the screen FREE TO START Start free with the starter fish and one tank. A one-time Unlock Everything purchase, on any of your devices, adds every fish, every prop pack, Color Studio recoloring, the Porthole window and Wander, and up to 10 tanks, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. No subscription, no account, no ads. Questions or ideas? Tap Send feedback in Settings. We read every message. Terms of Use: https://hellogoodday.com/oceandigest/terms Privacy Policy: https://hellogoodday.com/oceandigest/privacy

Screenshots

Widget Tank4 screens
Ocean Digest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ocean Digest at none against Widget Tank's shown. Ocean Digest also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.2). Widget Tank's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price 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. Widget Tank sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Ocean Digest sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widget Tank ships an update daily, Ocean Digest weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Widget Tank versus Ocean Digest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget TankOcean Digest
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS26.217.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB228 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJuki TanimotoHello Good Day LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Widget Tank

One-time2
  • Aquarium Slots +3$1.99
  • Aquarium Slots +6$2.99
1 purchases

Ocean Digest

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$9.99

Questions

Is Widget Tank free?
Widget Tank is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ocean Digest free?
Ocean Digest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Widget Tank or Ocean Digest have ads?
Widget Tank shows ads; Ocean Digest does not.
Which is updated more often, Widget Tank or Ocean Digest?
Widget Tank ships an update daily, and Ocean Digest weekly. Most recently, Widget Tank was updated on November 5, 2026 and Ocean Digest on October 31, 2026.

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