Widgetik vs Cartogram
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widgetik
Personalize your device with interactive widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Track habits, log water, manage tasks, and display clocks or fun elements like a virtual aquarium. Customize appearance with colors, gradients, and fonts.
- Interactive widgets
- Habit tracking
- Water logging
- Task management
- Customizable appearance
- Focus timer
- Event countdowns
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Beautiful, interactive widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen and iPad. Log water, check off habits and tasks, start a focus session or feed your aquarium fish right from the widget, without opening the app. Then make every widget your own with colors, gradients and fonts, or let your wallpaper show through. HABITS & WELLNESS • Habit Tracker: tick off daily habits with a tap and keep your streak going. • Habit Streak: your current streak and this week at a glance. • Habit Counter (Premium): count sets, reps or any daily goal, one tap at a time. • Hydration: log water in one tap and follow your daily goal. • Mindfulness: track meditation, breathing and mindful minutes. • Focus Timer (Premium): start, pause and reset focus sessions from the widget, and follow the countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Step Counter: your daily steps from Apple Health. PLAN YOUR DAY • Agenda & Day Planner (Premium): see what's on now, how long until your next event, and the days ahead. • Daily Dashboard: time, your next countdown, steps, water and mindfulness in one widget. • Interactive Checklist: keep tasks, routines and groceries on your Home Screen and check them off there. • Event Countdown: count down to trips, birthdays, exams and big moments. • Upcoming Birthdays (Premium): upcoming birthdays, ages and days remaining. • Month Calendar and Week Strip: the month or the current week at a glance. • Progress Tracker: see how far through the week, month, season or year you are, or follow a step or personal goal. CLOCKS • Digital Watch, Analog Watch and Emoji Clock: a clock face in your style. • World Clock: the time in the cities you care about. JUST FOR FUN • Aquarium: a small tank of fish to feed and keep clean. • Cat: a little cat that gets up to mischief all day. Pet it, feed it and play with it. • Zen Garden (Premium): water your plant and watch it grow. • Daily Quote and Daily Inspiration: a fresh quote every day. • Photo: pin a favorite photo or rotate through a collection. • Sun & Daylight: sunrise, sunset, golden hour and day length for your city. • Moon Phase: follow the current lunar phase. • Battery: your battery level at a glance. LOCK SCREEN, CONTROL CENTER & IPAD • Lock Screen widgets for the date, calendar, progress, steps, water, battery, world time and sunrise or sunset. • Control Center controls to log water, check off a habit or start a focus session. • Extra Large widgets on iPad for Agenda, Aquarium, Cat and Daily Dashboard, and for most widgets on iPhone with iOS 27. MAKE IT YOURS Choose solid colors or gradients, themes, fonts and text colors, and see every change in a live preview. With Transparent Backgrounds (Premium), nearly every widget blends into your wallpaper: take two screenshots and Widgetik lines each widget up with the wallpaper behind it. APPLE HEALTH Widgetik uses HealthKit to show your steps and, if you turn it on, to save water you log in Widgetik to Apple Health. WIDGETIK PREMIUM Widgetik is free to download and includes ads. A one-time Premium purchase removes ads and unlocks Agenda, Upcoming Birthdays, Habit Counter, Focus Timer, Zen Garden, extra fonts, custom text colors and Transparent Backgrounds. No subscription. Your habits, health data, calendar and photos stay on your device.
Cartogram
Create custom map posters of any location worldwide using detailed map data. Design unique wall art with curated themes, customizable layers, and typography, then export in high resolution for printing.
- Explore any location globally
- Choose from curated color themes
- Customize map layers (roads, water, parks)
- Add custom typography
- Select multiple poster layouts
- High-resolution PNG/PDF export
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Turn any place in the world into a stunning wall poster — powered by real OpenStreetMap data. Cartogram continues to deliver the same beautiful map poster creation experience, now with a fresh identity and new features. Cartogram lets you create beautifully styled map posters of your favorite cities, neighborhoods, and landmarks. Whether it's your hometown, a place you traveled to, or a gift for someone special — design a print-ready poster in seconds. EXPLORE ANY LOCATION Search for any city, neighborhood, or point of interest by name. Or drop a pin anywhere on the globe using coordinates. The entire world is your canvas. CURATED THEMES Choose from dozens of professionally designed color themes — from minimal black-and-white to vibrant, colorful styles. Each theme transforms the same map data into a completely different mood. DETAILED MAP LAYERS Fine-tune your poster by toggling roads, water bodies, parks, and building footprints. Adjust layer visibility to get exactly the look you want. CUSTOM TYPOGRAPHY Add city and country labels with full font control. Pick from a curated selection of typefaces to match your poster's style. MULTIPLE LAYOUTS Select from various poster aspect ratios and sizes — portrait, landscape, and square — optimized for common print formats. HIGH-RESOLUTION EXPORT Save your poster as a high-resolution PNG or PDF, ready for professional printing. Pro users enjoy up to 450 DPI for gallery-quality output. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenMapTiles via OpenFreeMap. Rendered with MapLibre.
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Verdict
Widgetik and Cartogram both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 74% of Widgetik's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cartogram's. Widgetik also leads on ratings volume (71 vs 7). Cartogram's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Widgetik sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cartogram sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Widgetik against 4.4 for Cartogram. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widgetik has 71 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Widgetik's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cartogram's.
Widgetik ships an update every 6 days, Cartogram every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widgetik | Cartogram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (71 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ANDREI RUSTI | Furlan Paolo |
Customer experience
Widgetik
Cartogram
In-app purchases
Widgetik
- Premium version$1.99
Cartogram
- Cartogram Pro$1.99









