Comparison

Getwid vs Wallena

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

Head to head
About

Getwid

Create custom Home Screen widgets with a blank canvas and a layer-by-layer design process. Share your creations and discover widgets made by the community. Offers a wide range of customization options for text, photos, clocks, and more.

Highlights
  • Blank canvas widget design
  • Layer-by-layer customization
  • Photo, text, clock, calendar elements
  • Community widget discovery and sharing
  • Customizable text styles
  • Countdown and count-up timers
  • 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

Wallena

Features
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Wallena makes wallpapers that actually fit your iPhone. Preview the composition against a mock lock screen and home screen before saving. The system wallpaper editor may apply additional cropping. THE GALLERY IS FREE An expanding wallpaper collection, all free. Open any wallpaper, preview it on a mock lock screen and home screen, save it to Photos. Free for everyone, no account, no sign-up. DESCRIBE WHAT YOU WANT Type what you're after — "aurora over a black lake", "warm sand gradient" — pick a style, and get a wallpaper made for your screen alone. Seven styles: minimal, gradient, neon, cosmic, nature, aurora, abstract. Three a day free; up to 40 a day with Wallena Pro. LIVE PHOTOS Choose a video from the Live collection, or turn your own photo or video into a Live Photo. Up to three Live Photo exports per day, including catalogue items. BUILT FOR THE LOCK SCREEN Clean centre, calm zones behind the clock and the home indicator. Wallpapers that survive the widgets sitting on top of them. MY WALLPAPERS Everything you generate stays in the app, so you can save it again later. ABOUT SETTING WALLPAPERS iOS gives no app permission to change your wallpaper. Wallena saves the finished image to Photos and shows you the two steps to set it in Settings. We don't promise one-tap installation, because there is no such thing. ABOUT MOTION Wallena builds a real Live Photo and saves it to Photos, where it always animates. Whether iOS then lets it move on the Lock Screen is the system's decision, and on recent versions it often answers "Motion not available". We can't control that, so we don't promise it. AI AND PRIVACY Wallpaper generation uses OpenAI. Your text prompt goes to our server and then to OpenAI with your permission. An installation identifier and request IP are used for generation limits. Your selected photos and videos are processed on device. WHAT IT COSTS The gallery, saving to Photos, three generated wallpapers and three Live Photos a day are free. Generating an image costs us real money at OpenAI, and a limit is the honest way to keep that free. Wallena Pro is an auto-renewing subscription — weekly with a 3-day free trial, or yearly. It raises generation to 40 a day and removes the daily Live Photo counter. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account; the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Terms: https://yakhin93.github.io/upmedia-legal/wallena/terms/ Privacy: https://yakhin93.github.io/upmedia-legal/wallena/privacy/ The Live Photo counter resets at local midnight; Settings shows the remaining Live Photo exports. AI generation limits are counted by the server. Privacy Policy: https://yakhin93.github.io/upmedia-legal/wallena/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://yakhin93.github.io/upmedia-legal/wallena/terms/

Screenshots

Getwid4 screens
Wallena3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Wallena at every 2 weeks against Getwid's every 2 months. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Getwid ships an update every 2 months, Wallena every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Getwid versus Wallena: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGetwidWallena
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHasan KilincLidiya Bukharova

In-app purchases

None

Getwid

No in-app purchases

None

Wallena

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Getwid free?
Getwid is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wallena free?
Wallena is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Getwid or Wallena have ads?
Neither Getwid nor Wallena shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Getwid or Wallena?
Getwid ships an update every 2 months, and Wallena every 2 weeks. Most recently, Getwid was updated on October 31, 2026 and Wallena on October 29, 2026.

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