Comparison

Widgetik vs Wristmate

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

Head to head
About

Widgetik

Personalize your iPhone Home and Lock Screens with a wide array of aesthetic and interactive widgets. Track habits, monitor progress, display photos, and stay organized with customizable designs that match your style.

Highlights
  • Interactive widgets for daily routines
  • Log progress directly from widgets
  • Apple Health integration
  • Advanced customization options
  • Lock Screen widgets
  • Variety of widget types
Features
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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. • 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. • 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. • 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 and world time. • Control Center controls to log water, check off a habit or start a focus session. • Extra Large widgets on iPad for Agenda, Aquarium and Daily Dashboard. 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), Agenda, Daily Quote and Battery blend 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.

About

Wristmate

Personalize your Apple Watch face with custom photo complications and one-tap shortcuts for frequently used actions. Turn photos into interactive buttons to launch workouts, call contacts, or create notes instantly.

Highlights
  • Custom photo complications
  • One-tap Quick Actions
  • Automatic photo rotation
  • Customizable tint colors
  • iCloud syncing
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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Make your Apple Watch yours - with custom photo complications and a one-tap launcher for the things you do most. Wristmate turns your watch face into something personal and useful. Build photo complications from your own pictures, then wire them to instant actions. Tap your dog's photo to start a walk. Tap your kid's photo to call the sitter. It's your watch, your way. PHOTO COMPLICATION SETS • Build complications from your own photos - circular, rectangular, and corner slots. • Crop, zoom, and rotate each photo to fit the slot perfectly. • Rotate through a set automatically - every 15 minutes, every 30, hourly, daily, or when you open the app. • Add a custom color border to make a complication pop. A LAUNCHER FOR EVERYTHING YOU REACH FOR Fill your watch with one-tap Quick Actions - pick from ten and arrange them your way: • Start Workout - jump straight into the Apple Watch Workout app for your chosen activity. • Call Contact - call someone in a single tap. • Message Contact - fire off a pre-filled message. • Search Maps - launch a saved Maps search. • Quick Note - dictate a note from your wrist. • Quick Reminder - dictate a reminder straight to your iPhone's Reminders. • Tally Counter - count anything: laps, reps, coffees, scores. • Coin Flip - heads or tails, settled. • Dice Roll - roll the dice (your choice of sides). • Ask The Orb - ask, shake, get your answer. TAP-THROUGH MAGIC Wire any photo complication to a Quick Action. Tap the photo on your watch face and the action runs instantly - no menus, no digging. MADE TO BE YOURS • Custom tint colors for every shortcut, shared with the set border picker. • Pick a color once, use it anywhere. • Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud. PRIVACY Workout actions use Apple HealthKit only to launch the Workout app - Wristmate never reads or stores your health data. Quick Note and Quick Reminder save to your own Notes and Reminders. Your photos stay yours. Download Wristmate and make your wrist work for you.

Screenshots

Widgetik4 screens
Wristmate3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Widgetik at Free against Wristmate's $0.99. Widgetik also leads on ratings volume (63 vs 1) and review sentiment (86% vs 67%). Wristmate's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence 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

Widgetik is free to download; Wristmate costs $0.99 up front. Widgetik sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wristmate asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wristmate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widgetik has 63 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 86% of Widgetik's written reviews are positive against 67% of Wristmate's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widgetik ships an update every 6 days, Wristmate weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Widgetik versus Wristmate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidgetikWristmate
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (63 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings63 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#116 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperANDREI RUSTIMinorbits LLC

Customer experience

Widgetik

All ratings63 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.1%

Wristmate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Widgetik

One-time1
  • Premium version$1.99
None

Wristmate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Widgetik free?
Widgetik is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wristmate free?
Wristmate costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Widgetik or Wristmate?
Wristmate is rated higher. Widgetik averages 4.6 out of 5 from 63 ratings, while Wristmate averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Widgetik or Wristmate have ads?
Widgetik shows ads; Wristmate does not.
Which is updated more often, Widgetik or Wristmate?
Widgetik ships an update every 6 days, and Wristmate weekly. Most recently, Widgetik was updated on October 15, 2026 and Wristmate on October 4, 2026.

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