Comparison

Screenmade vs Car Play Widgets

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

Head to head
About

Screenmade

Personalize your iPhone and iPad screens with a wide array of customizable widgets for Home, Lock, StandBy, and CarPlay. Create unique wallpapers and add interactive elements to your device.

Highlights
  • 30+ customizable widgets
  • Generative wallpaper engine
  • Home, Lock, StandBy, CarPlay support
  • Interactive widgets (games, trackers)
  • Customizable colors, fonts, layouts
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Make every screen yours - Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and CarPlay. Screenmade is a widget studio packed with 30+ beautiful, fully customizable widgets and a generative wallpaper engine to match. Pick a widget and make it yours: choose colors, fonts, backgrounds, and layouts until it fits your screen perfectly. FOUR SURFACES, ONE STYLE • Home Screen - small, medium, large, and extra-large widgets • Lock Screen - inline, circular, and rectangular widgets • StandBy - oversized, glanceable widgets made to read across the room, including a calm night mode • CarPlay - widgets made for car lovers TAP TO PLAY Some widgets do more than sit there. Play songs on the Piano, tap out grooves on the Drum Pad, pop a sheet of Bubble Wrap, log a glass on the Water Tracker, shake the Fortune Ball, or feed your Virtual Pet - with real sound, right from the widget. Check off habits and groceries, or launch an app or contact in a single tap. No need to open the app. MAKE IT YOURS • Background styles like Tinted, Solid, Mesh, Radial, Duotone, and Gloss • A curated color palette plus custom colors, and a set of typefaces (rounded, serif, modern, italic, mono) • Hand-tuned presets for every widget, so you can start from a look you love and make it your own GENERATIVE WALLPAPERS Create one-of-a-kind wallpapers with a library of art engines - Mesh, Marble, Stripes, Bauhaus, Topographic, Bokeh, Northern Lights, and more - in tones that match your vibe. Export for any iPhone or iPad. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Turn on optional iCloud sync to carry your widget setups between iPhone and iPad. Your photos stay on your device. Free to download. Built for iPhone and iPad.

About

Car Play Widgets

Personalize your iPhone and CarPlay dashboard with custom widgets. Design unique cards with photos, clocks, text, and more to match your style. Trigger custom sounds when connecting to CarPlay for an enhanced driving experience.

Highlights
  • Personalize iPhone and CarPlay dashboards
  • Create custom photo and text widgets
  • Design clock, date, and countdown cards
  • Static motion-poster style widgets
  • Trigger custom ride sounds with Apple Shortcuts
  • Customizable colors and layouts
Features
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Make your iPhone and CarPlay dashboard feel more personal every time you drive. Create small widgets inspired by your car and your style for your iPhone Home Screen, then add them to your CarPlay dashboard on iOS 26. Start with a photo, then build a clock, date card, countdown, moon phase, affirmation, badge, flag, or custom text design. Pick colors and layouts that suit your setup. CAR-INSPIRED WIDGETS Choose from dashboard-style cards, vehicle artwork, photo layouts, countdowns, clocks, and decorative themes. Browse and customize freely; saving widget designs requires Pro. TEXT AND LYRIC-STYLE CARDS Design music-inspired cards using words, titles, and artist lines you enter yourself. The app does not include or synchronize a licensed lyrics catalog. STATIC MOTION-POSTER LOOKS Create bold poster-style widget cards. These are static WidgetKit designs, not video playback. OPTIONAL RIDE SOUNDS Use Apple Shortcuts to trigger a selected sound when CarPlay connects, disconnects, or when an automation runs after you arrive home. iOS runs the automation; the app supplies the shortcut actions and sounds. IMPORTANT Widgets appear on your iPhone Home Screen, and on iOS 26 you can also add them to your CarPlay dashboard. The app does not modify, reskin, or control the CarPlay interface. It does not read vehicle data or show live speed, fuel, mileage, or range, and it does not request location access. Privacy Policy: https://noamr13.github.io/n5labs.github.io/privacy/carminder App Terms: https://noamr13.github.io/n5labs.github.io/terms/carminder Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Screenmade4 screens
Car Play Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Screenmade at 4.7 against Car Play Widgets's 3.9. Screenmade also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Car Play Widgets's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Car Play Widgets sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Screenmade asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Screenmade holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Screenmade ships an update every 5 days, Car Play Widgets fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Screenmade versus Car Play Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreenmadeCar Play Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (9 ratings) — better3.9 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmartMood LLCN5 Labs

Customer experience

Screenmade

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

Car Play Widgets

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Screenmade

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Car Play Widgets

Subscriptions2
  • iCar Pro$4.997 Days
  • iCar Pro Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time3
  • 5 AI Credits$0.99
  • 30 AI Credits$4.99
  • 75 AI Credits$9.99

Questions

Is Screenmade free?
Screenmade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Car Play Widgets free?
Car Play Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Screenmade or Car Play Widgets?
Screenmade is rated higher. Screenmade averages 4.7 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Car Play Widgets averages 3.9 from 7 ratings.
Do Screenmade or Car Play Widgets have ads?
Neither Screenmade nor Car Play Widgets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Screenmade or Car Play Widgets?
Screenmade ships an update every 5 days, and Car Play Widgets fortnightly. Most recently, Screenmade was updated on October 7, 2026 and Car Play Widgets on October 5, 2026.

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