Widgetik vs WhyNot Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widgetik
Personalize your device with beautiful, interactive widgets. Track habits, plan your day, monitor progress, and enjoy fun additions like virtual pets and clocks, all customizable to match your style.
- Habit tracking and streaks
- Interactive checklists
- Event countdowns
- Customizable clocks
- Virtual pets and gardens
- Progress tracking for day/week/month/year
- Lock screen and Control Center integration
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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: the time, your next countdown and three tiles you choose: steps, water, mindfulness, your monthly goal or a habit. • 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 much of the day, week, month, season or year has passed, also as a Live Activity, or set month and year goals and log them with a tap. 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.
WhyNot Widgets
Organize your favorite apps into a single widget for quick access. Customize the appearance with various styles and layouts. Includes unique clock and information widgets for your home screen.
- App drawer widget
- Customizable app layouts
- Light/Dark mode support
- Analog and digital clock widgets
- Weather and calendar integration
- Hand-drawn widget designs
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Nine apps. One widget. One tap. WhyNot puts a tiny app drawer on your Home Screen. Pick up to nine apps, choose a style, and every one of them launches with a single tap. No folders to open. Many apps launch straight from the widget, the rest pass through WhyNot for a moment, and the picker tells you which is which. BUILD IT YOUR WAY • Up to nine apps in the smallest widget size. One app or nine, the layout adapts. • Light and Dark show the real app icons, as they look on a light or a dark Home Screen. Mono and Ghost are two quieter looks. • Fill, or anchor the drawer to a corner for a folder-like cluster. • Hold a tile and drag it to rearrange. CLOCKS WITH CHARACTER • Dial: a quiet analog clock inspired by classic industrial design. Small, medium, and a large desk clock with your week laid out underneath. • Flip: a split-flap clock that rolls over on the minute. • Almanac: the month on a card, in Flip's material. Two keys turn the pages, the name brings today back. Free. • Every widget is built for light mode, dark mode, and the Clear look. Pin any widget to always light or always dark, whatever your phone is set to. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT Every widget is drawn by hand, with real shadows, real materials, and one light source. Nothing is a template. Nothing is a screenshot of something else. PACKS (one-time purchases) • Halo: three screens on one large instrument, your wallpaper showing through. Home has the week, what is next and today's steps, Move and Exercise from Health with the goals. Next has the coming events and reminders, with a countdown. Outside has the weather from sunrise to sunset, hour by hour and four days out. The keys switch screens; a slider sets how much wallpaper shows. • Quartz: a desk clock from the nineties, in seven cases from olive to cream. A window for the date, the day or the temperature, numerals in figures or Roman. Tap to open Clock. • Vinyl: your record on a turntable, drawn after the classic Braun deck. The album artwork is the label, the record turns while Apple Music plays, the arm lifts when it stops, and back, play and next work from the widget. Small is the platter, medium is the whole deck. • Tally: a desk calculator from the seventies, on your Home Screen. Every key works. Small for quick sums, large for the whole instrument. Keeps the last result. • Frontpage: your day as a newspaper front page, in the tall widget size that arrived with iOS 27. The next event is the headline, more events and your reminders run in columns, real headlines from a source you choose or your own feed fill the fold, and tomorrow's weather closes the page. Three newspaper typefaces, newsprint grain, pressed type. • Console: your day at a glance. What is next and how long until it, the week ahead, and the sky, one tap apart on the widget. Every block opens Calendar or Weather directly. • Golden: when the light will be good. Golden hour and blue hour for where you are, on one living sky where the sun rises and sets across your Home Screen. The time is lit by the light of the moment. Tap to open the Camera. • WhyNot Pro: Scenes, your drawer set in a place, with the apps that belong there. Glass, the drawer on a frosted panel with your wallpaper showing through. Unlimited drawers, each widget showing a different one. Gradient backgrounds inspired by iPhone finishes or your own two colors. Buy once, keep forever. No subscriptions. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No analytics. Your drawers live on your phone and nowhere else. Console, Golden, Frontpage and Halo use your approximate location for Apple Weather and, if you allow it, your calendars and reminder lists. Halo reads today's Health figures on your phone, only if you allow it. A feed you add is fetched by your phone, not by us. Nothing about you ever reaches us. WhyNot is made by This is E.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: WhyNot Widgets at none against Widgetik's shown. WhyNot Widgets also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly). Widgetik's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (75% vs 67%). On price, ratings volume, 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 WhyNot Widgets sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Widgetik holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 73 and 132 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Widgetik's written reviews are positive against 67% of WhyNot Widgets's.
Widgetik ships an update weekly, WhyNot Widgets daily. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widgetik | WhyNot Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (73 ratings) — better | 4.2 (132 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 67.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 73 | 132 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ANDREI RUSTI | Iskren Georgiev |
Customer experience
Widgetik
WhyNot Widgets
In-app purchases
Widgetik
- Premium version$1.99
WhyNot Widgets
- Tally$5.99
- Vinyl$5.99
- Quartz$5.99
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- Golden$5.99
- Atlas$9.99
- Frontpage$9.99
- Halo$9.99
- WhyNot Pro$9.99
- Console$9.99
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