Getwid vs Kompound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Getwid
Design and share custom Home Screen widgets with a blank canvas and a layer-by-layer approach. Add photos, text, clocks, calendars, and more. Discover and use widgets created by the community.
- Layer-based widget design
- Add photos, text, clocks, calendars
- Community widget discovery
- Share custom designs
- Multiple text effects
- SF Symbols integration
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Design your own Home Screen widgets — exactly the way you want them. Getwid is a widget design studio, not a template gallery. You start with a blank canvas and build the widget layer by layer: photos from your library, your own text, icons, a live clock, a calendar, a countdown. Move it, rotate it, restyle it, undo it. Up to 24 layers in a single widget. NEW IN 2.0 — DISCOVER Browse widgets the community shared, tap a design to see who made it, and add it to your collection in one tap. Share your own designs whenever you want. Like the ones you love. Report or block anything you don't. WHAT YOU CAN BUILD • Photo stickers from your own library, with dim and blur • Text layers — font, size, alignment, color, opacity, effects, rotation • Analog and digital clocks • Calendar and date layers • Countdown and count-up timers • Icon layers from Apple's SF Symbols • Backgrounds: solid colors, 5-stop gradients, patterned borders THREE SIZES Small, medium and large Home Screen widgets. Pick a size, design for it, and the system widget picker only offers the designs that fit. FREE, WITH NO CATCH No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. No ads. No paywalled layers. Nothing is counted, nothing is capped. YOUR DESIGNS STAY YOURS Widget designs are stored on your device — not uploaded, not synced, not scanned. Photos you add never leave your phone unless you choose to share that design on Discover. Signing in is optional and unlocks nothing; it's only there for Discover and to sync your language across devices. NINE LANGUAGES Turkish, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese. Questions or ideas? There's a support form right inside the app, under Settings → About.
Kompound
This app helps you capture, organize, and connect your ideas from various sources. It uses AI to structure thoughts, surfaces forgotten knowledge, and generates new insights by linking disparate information. Your private library keeps your ideas working for you.
- Instant idea capture via voice or text
- Import Kindle highlights and book quotes
- AI-powered idea structuring and organization
- Automatic tagging and self-organizing library
- Discover connections between forgotten thoughts
- Generate personalized insights from your library
- Private and local data storage
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Books. Podcasts. Conversations. A thought that hits mid-run. Most of it disappears before it becomes anything. Kompound is the private library where your ideas keep working. It surfaces forgotten thoughts, reveals unexpected connections, and turns scattered knowledge into insights that compound. CAPTURE IDEAS, INSTANTLY Speak a thought and AI structures it instantly, in any language. Share directly from Safari, articles, videos, or any app with a single tap. Import Kindle highlights in bulk. Extract ideas and quotes from any book just by entering the title. Point your camera at any physical page: Kompound detects the text, freezes the frame, and lets you select exactly the passage you want. Paste messy notes and watch them become organised ideas. Write manually when you prefer. Every idea, wherever it came from, lives in one searchable place. REDISCOVER WHAT MATTERS Your library organises itself automatically, tagged across topics you can explore by theme, source, or time. No folders, no manual sorting. Open any idea and Kompound shows you the most similar ideas from your library, found entirely on your device. Daily reminders bring forgotten thoughts back before they fade, and a Rediscover feature surfaces dormant ideas at exactly the right moment. LET YOUR IDEAS COLLIDE Tap to generate an insight at any time. Kompound searches your entire library and connects ideas that rarely would have met otherwise. A passage from a book, a podcast note, a forgotten observation, a conversation from months ago. The result is a new insight written specifically for you, often ending with a question or tension worth sitting with. Save it and it joins your library, feeding the next round of insights. Ideas generate insights. Insights become new ideas. The loop compounds. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs locally on your device. Your ideas stay private and under your control, always. AI is used only when you choose. Built for curious people who read, listen, watch, discuss, and want to think better.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kompound at none against Getwid's 1. Kompound also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks). Getwid's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Getwid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kompound asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Getwid against 5.0 for Kompound. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Getwid ships an update every 5 weeks, Kompound every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Getwid | Kompound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 489 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hasan Kilinc | MAURICIO GOMEZ DIAZ |
Customer experience
Getwid
Kompound
In-app purchases
Getwid
- Paper Letters Pack$0.99
Kompound
No in-app purchases









