Comparison

Widgetik vs Recast

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

Recast

Features
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Recast turns a file into the format you need, or makes it smaller for sharing. Every feature is free, with no daily limits, no ads and no account. CONVERT Convert images into JPEG, PNG, HEIC or PDF. Turn videos into MP4, MOV or GIF, or extract their audio as M4A. Export PDF pages as images and turn GIFs into video or still images. Extract the video from a Live Photo. HEIC encoding depends on device support. COMPRESS Choose an actual target size or enter your own. Recast can reduce quality and dimensions to reach the target and tells you when a target cannot be met. GIF conversion may shorten a clip to keep the output manageable. Compressing a PDF may flatten selectable text into images; the result explains when this happens. BATCH AND AUTOMATE Convert or compress multiple files in one go. Combine photos into one PDF, in the order you choose. Run conversions from Shortcuts and the Action button. Save your favourite settings and reuse them with one tap. ON YOUR DEVICE Your files are never uploaded. Conversion works offline on your iPhone or iPad. Optional tips use Apple's in-app purchase system. HONEST ABOUT RESULTS Some conversions and ZIP archives make files bigger. Recast shows the actual result and explains any size or quality tradeoffs. An already suitable file is kept as it is where possible. ALSO INCLUDED Compress images and PDFs from the share sheet Pack other files into a ZIP archive Keep recent results ready to share again Choose an export folder Preview before and after Light and dark appearance OPTIONAL SUPPORT If Recast helps you, you can leave a tip in Settings > Support Recast. Tips are one-time consumable in-app purchases. They are entirely optional, do not unlock features, and are not subscriptions. Every feature stays free whether you tip or not. Thank you to everyone who previously bought Recast or Recast Pro. All existing functionality remains available without restoring a purchase.

Screenshots

Widgetik4 screens
Recast4 screens

Verdict

The call

Widgetik and Recast are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Widgetik sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Recast sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widgetik ships an update every 6 days, Recast weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Widgetik versus Recast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidgetikRecast
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (67 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings67 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1817.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperANDREI RUSTILEON NELIO FIGUEIRA

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Widgetik

One-time1
  • Premium version$1.99
4 purchases

Recast

One-time4
  • Small tip$0.99
  • Kind tip$2.99
  • Recast Pro$4.99
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  • Generous tip$4.99

Questions

Is Widgetik free?
Widgetik is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Recast free?
Recast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Widgetik or Recast have ads?
Both Widgetik and Recast show ads.
Which is updated more often, Widgetik or Recast?
Widgetik ships an update every 6 days, and Recast weekly. Most recently, Widgetik was updated on October 25, 2026 and Recast on October 25, 2026.

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