Getwid vs Clearwing
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.
Clearwing
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Your Home Screen, finally quiet. Clearwing is a collection of 21 widgets that look truly transparent: clocks, calendars, countdowns, a moon phase, a photo, floating on your wallpaper with nothing around them. And the part nobody else fixed: there is no app name under them. iOS prints the app's name beneath every widget, which ruins the clean look unless you switch to large icons. Clearwing's own name is invisible, so its widgets carry no label and you keep your small icons. 21 WIDGETS • Invisible spacer: pure wallpaper, for airy layouts • Clocks: digital, a minimal analog dial, a word clock that says half past nine, and a binary clock in glowing bits • Day & Time: the date and the clock in one glance • Date, Weekday written large, and a monthly Calendar with today circled • This Week strip and the week number • Countdown with a progress ring, and Days Since for streaks and anniversaries • Year Progress, Day Progress, and a Year Grid with one dot for every day • Moon: tonight's phase, computed on your device • Daily line: one calm sentence a day • Photo in a floating frame, arch, circle, or tilted polaroid • Monogram with your initials • Battery in a glowing ring FIFTEEN LOOKS FOR EVERY WIDGET Retro Pixel is the signature default, and every widget also comes in Minimal, Editorial serif, Bold, frosted Glass, Handwritten, Script calligraphy, Typewriter, Neon, Couture fashion serif, Engraved, Chalk, Marker, Retro geometric, and Poster. Browse the whole collection in the built-in gallery, rendered live on your own wallpaper, then pick looks and tones per widget. A frosted-glass backdrop option gives you the soft blurred-wallpaper card style too. SET UP IN A MINUTE iOS does not allow real see-through widgets, so Clearwing recreates your wallpaper behind each one, pixel for pixel. Take one screenshot of an empty Home Screen page, import it, and place your widgets. A built-in fine-tune editor nudges the alignment if your device sits a pixel off, and switching between small and large icon modes is one tap. WRITTEN ON YOUR IPHONE On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, the Daily Line widget writes a fresh calm line every day, entirely on-device. Without it, a curated pack takes over seamlessly. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE • Clearwing contains zero networking code, so nothing can leave your iPhone • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking • Your wallpaper and photos stay in the app's private container • Delete the app and every trace is gone Free. No subscription. No catch. Your wallpaper deserves the whole screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clearwing 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
Both are free to download. Getwid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clearwing asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Getwid | Clearwing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hasan Kilinc | Shubham Dolas |
In-app purchases
Getwid
- Paper Letters Pack$0.99
Clearwing
No in-app purchases








