Comparison

Getwid vs Themely

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

Themely

Features
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Your Lock Screen should look like you. Themely lets you design the widget, pick the wallpaper, and match them - free, and entirely on your device. Most widget apps hand you a grid of presets and lock the good ones behind a subscription. Themely works the other way round: you build the widget yourself, everything is unlocked from the first launch, and there is nothing to buy. THREE STEPS 1. Design a widget - choose what it shows, then style it until it fits. 2. Save a matching wallpaper to Photos. 3. Follow the short in-app guide to place both on your screens. DESIGN YOUR OWN WIDGETS Build a widget instead of settling for a preset. Pick what it shows, then style it until it fits your screen: - Six widget types - Clock, Date, Photo, Countdown, Time Progress and Battery - Three sizes - small, medium and large - Twelve background styles and four type styles - Live preview while you edit, so you see the result before you save 72 WALLPAPERS THAT MATCH Every wallpaper is drawn on your device from twelve color palettes and six art styles: Mesh, Waves, Rings, Grid, Blobs and Linear. Browse by mood - minimal, pastel, gradient, abstract or dark - and save any of them to Photos at full 1290 x 2796 resolution. No watermark, no export limit. TWELVE THEME PACKS A theme pack pairs a wallpaper with a matching widget style, so your Lock Screen and Home Screen agree with each other. Apply one and Themely walks you through both steps. BUILT FOR HOW iOS ACTUALLY WORKS iOS does not let any app place a widget or change your wallpaper for you. Themely does not pretend otherwise - it saves your design, then shows a short, clear guide for the two steps you do yourself. No shortcuts to install, no profiles to trust. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Themely has no ads, no analytics and no third-party SDKs. Your widgets, favorites and settings stay on your device, and a photo you pick for a Photo widget never leaves your phone. We collect nothing. WORKS OFFLINE All artwork is generated on your device, so the whole library works with no connection and the app stays small. NO ACCOUNT, NO SUBSCRIPTION No sign-up, no email, no free trial that quietly renews. Open the app and everything is already there. QUESTIONS Can Themely set my wallpaper for me? No - iOS reserves that step for you, and any app that claims otherwise cannot deliver it either. Will my designs sync between devices? No - everything is stored locally, which is the same reason nothing is ever sent anywhere. Is it really free? Yes. No paid tier, no in-app purchase, no trial. Requires iOS 17 or later. Questions or feedback: exostudio.feedback@gmail.com

Screenshots

Getwid4 screens
Themely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Themely at none against Getwid's 1. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Getwid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Themely asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Getwid versus Themely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGetwidThemely
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHasan KilincKhanh Thong Le

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Getwid

One-time1
  • Paper Letters Pack$0.99
None

Themely

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Getwid free?
Getwid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Themely free?
Themely is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Getwid or Themely have ads?
Neither Getwid nor Themely shows ads.

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