Comparison

Getwid vs Widget Playground

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Layer-based widget design
  • Add photos, text, clocks, calendars
  • Community widget discovery
  • Share custom designs
  • Multiple text effects
  • SF Symbols integration
Features
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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.

About

Widget Playground

Features
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Your home screen is prime real estate — so build something fun and useful on it. Widget Playground is a design studio for widgets that do more: craft photo and text art, play tap-to-answer quizzes, and chart your Apple Health data your way. Start with a photo, an AI image, or a blank canvas, then drag, pinch, and twist every element until it's exactly, delightfully yours. GET CREATIVE • Start from a library photo or a plain canvas, or generate one with Apple Image Playground • Direct-manipulation editing: drag to move, pinch to resize, twist to rotate, double-tap to type • Around 25 font families, sizes from 8 to 600 pt, true bold and italic faces • Four color modes: solid, gradient, rainbow, and per-letter — give every single letter its own color and size • 3D extruded text with adjustable depth, plus text that curves along an arc • Speech bubbles and rounded containers with tails, padding, and fills • Subject lift: your photo's subject rises into its own layer, so text weaves behind a person and in front of the sky — move and scale the subject and the background fills itself in • Background tricks: blur, black & white, hue shift, or swap in a solid or gradient fill WIDGETS THAT DO THINGS • Countdowns to any date ahead, plus a live ticking timer with steady monospaced digits • Tap counters: tap the widget itself to count laps, coffees, or days — no app launch needed • Auto-updating dates in your pick of format, length, and case • Quotes in a range of tones — including one that riffs on your own photo, so every image gets a different take (on devices that support Apple Intelligence) QUIZ YOURSELF FROM THE HOME SCREEN • 12 topics: Geography, Flags, Math, Science, Space, Memory, and more • Answer by tapping the widget — instant green-or-red feedback, then the next question • Difficulty levels and per-topic colors, with scores, streaks, and accuracy tracked in the app • Fresh questions from Apple Intelligence, backed by a curated bank so there's always a next question YOUR HEALTH, CHARTED YOUR WAY • 14 health metrics (integrates with the Health app and uses data stored in the Health app) — steps, heart rate, sleep, workouts, mood, and more • Multiple chart styles: trend lines, hourly ranges, sleep hypnograms, top-days medals, and beyond • Latest Workout shows a map snapshot of your recorded GPS route • Log water, caffeine, weight, and mood with one tap, straight from the widget • Custom accent colors on your charts, plus light or dark looks per widget A FEW MORE THINGS • Up to 30 widgets at once, each in its own slot, in small, medium, and large sizes • A rectangle crop mode tailors each square design for medium widgets, element by element • Widgets render with the same math as the editor — what you design is what you get • Tap any widget to jump right back into its editor, and share any design as an image PRIVACY • We do not collect any data from this app. • Privacy Policy: https://sydvesti.com/privacy-policy Note: AI image generation requires iOS 27 or iPadOS 27 and a device that supports Apple Intelligence. AI quotes and quiz generation also use Apple Intelligence where available. Health widgets need permission, granted once in the app. Please note that some features require a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula If you have any questions, we're happy to help: contact@sydvesti.com

Screenshots

Getwid4 screens
Widget Playground4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Getwid at 18.6 against Widget Playground's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Getwid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Widget Playground sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Getwid versus Widget Playground: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGetwidWidget Playground
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB15 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHasan KilincSydvesti Oy

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Getwid

One-time1
  • Paper Letters Pack$0.99
2 purchases

Widget Playground

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Getwid free?
Getwid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Widget Playground free?
Widget Playground is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Getwid or Widget Playground have ads?
Neither Getwid nor Widget Playground shows ads.

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