Widgetik vs Cling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Interactive widgets for daily routines
- Log progress directly from widgets
- Apple Health integration
- Advanced customization options
- Lock Screen widgets
- Variety of widget types
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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.
Cling
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Cling is a save layer for your iPhone. Anything you need to keep in view goes into Cling, and you decide how loudly it shows up: parked permanently in the Dynamic Island, taking its turn in the live rotation, or saved quietly in the app until you need it. SAVE ANYTHING Cards: a loyalty card, boarding pass, gig ticket, membership or gift card, scannable from the lock screen Notes: a line of text, a link, or a photo you need to keep at hand Reminders: a dated alert with the notification lead time you choose Timers: a labelled countdown to zero Countdowns: days until a birthday, a trip, a deadline Locations: where you parked, the hotel, the restaurant, the bus stop, with an optional note and photo Clocks: an analog dial, a digital readout, or a running stopwatch Dates: weekday, day, month, full date, or the Chinese lunar date Progress: how far through the day, week, month, or year you are Status bars: a modular readout of battery, time, Wi-Fi, text and symbols Decorations: a glyph in the house style, there to dress the island CARDS, PASSES AND TICKETS Scan a card's barcode or type the number, and Cling puts it on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, full width and big enough for the till, the gate, or the door. No unlocking, no digging through apps, no turning the brightness up. Tickets and passes track their date, so yours is already waiting before the event. Add a note like "Row F, seat 12", style the card face, and mark any card sensitive to keep it private. PRIVACY: YOUR CARDS STAY YOURS A wallet feature is only as good as the trust behind it, so here is exactly what happens to your cards. Your card numbers never leave your iPhone. They are never sent to our servers. There is no Cling account and no card database on our end. There is nothing to leak, because nothing is ever uploaded. Your cards are encrypted at rest with AES-256. The key lives in your device Keychain, marked This Device Only: it never syncs through iCloud Keychain and never travels in a backup. Sensitive cards, payment cards included, are hidden by default. Their number and barcode are masked everywhere outside the app: not on the lock screen, not in the Dynamic Island, not in widgets. You decide what each card shows. THREE LANES, YOUR CALL Every saved item sits in one of three lanes, and you drag between them on the board. Static stays parked in the Dynamic Island. It is always there. Dynamic joins the live rotation and takes its turn with everything else. Dormant is saved and out of the way. It stays off your widgets unless you say otherwise. Nothing surfaces without your say-so. Move an item between lanes whenever it stops mattering, or starts. EVERYWHERE YOU ALREADY LOOK Saved items appear in the Dynamic Island, on the Lock Screen, and in home screen widgets. The Quick Pins widget puts one-tap starting points for your most-used types on the home screen, so saving a parking spot or starting a timer never needs the app opened. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE The share sheet extension takes text, links and images from any app straight into Cling. Siri and Shortcuts can save a parking spot or start a countdown by voice or as a step in an automation, so Cling fits into routines you have already built. COLLECTIONS Group saved items into collections that match how you think about them: a trip, a move, a project, a week. Collections keep a long list navigable without forcing you to delete things you might still want. MADE TO LOOK LIKE IT BELONGS Pick an accent colour and an appearance per item. Cling follows the system's visual language rather than fighting it, so a pin in the Dynamic Island reads as part of iOS, not as an advert for an app. ON DEVICE Your saved items live on your iPhone. No account, nothing to sign up for. Open it and start saving. REQUIRES iOS 17.2 or later. The Dynamic Island features need an iPhone with a Dynamic Island; on other iPhones, saved items appear on the Lock Screen and in widgets.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cling at none against Widgetik's 1. Cling also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Widgetik's advantage is ratings volume (67 vs 1). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Cling asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cling holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widgetik has 67 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Widgetik ships an update every 6 days, Cling every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widgetik | Cling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (67 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 17.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ANDREI RUSTI | William Whitehouse |
In-app purchases
Widgetik
- Premium version$1.99
Cling
No in-app purchases









