Matrix Widget vs Scheme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Matrix Widget
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Matrix Widget is a simple customization app for creating a retro-style matrix widget for your iPhone Home Screen. Track your days, preview your widget, and fine-tune the layout so it looks right on your device. The app gives you simple controls for adjusting the widget’s appearance and making it fit your style. Features: • Matrix-style Home Screen widget • Day and month tracking display • Live widget preview • Simple layout controls • Clean, minimal setup Matrix Widget is designed to be lightweight, visual, and easy to use.
Scheme
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Scheme turns your iPhone Home Screen into something that's unmistakably yours — with real, useful widgets and a coordinated set of themes, wallpapers, and fonts that all match. TERMINAL-STYLE WIDGETS • Apps — your selected apps as a simple text list, not a grid of icons — one tap to open each • Clock — a terminal-style clock: date, time, or both • Calendar — your next events, "Up Next" at a glance • Reminders — what's due, with overdue flags • Scratchpad — a quick note you can edit right from the Home Screen • Weather — current conditions and the day's high/low Every widget comes in multiple sizes, and each one is themed to match the rest of your Home Screen. THEMES THAT MATCH EVERYTHING Choose from 16 hand-tuned color themes — light and dark, drawn from the kind of palettes developers already love. Pick one and your widgets, fonts, and wallpaper all follow it, so nothing clashes. Generate a matching wallpaper in a range of styles — Minimal, Terminal, Gradient, and more — sized for your device and saved to Photos, ready to set in a couple of taps. MAKE IT YOURS • 7 fonts, including JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, and IBM Plex Mono • Tap the Calendar or Reminders widget to open straight into your calendar or reminders — and choose which app it opens FREE TO START Scheme is genuinely usable for free — no trial required: 6 themes, the Apps, Clock, and Scratchpad widgets, 3 wallpaper styles, and 3 fonts. SCHEME PRO Unlock everything: all 16 themes, the Calendar, Reminders, and Weather widgets, the large Apps widget, all 8 wallpaper styles, and all 7 fonts. • Yearly $14.99 with a 7-day free trial • Lifetime $29.99 — pay once, yours forever Family Sharing supported on both plans. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Your calendar and reminders are read on-device only and never leave your iPhone. Privacy Policy: https://vfreitas.com/scheme/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Matrix Widget at none against Scheme's 2. 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. Scheme sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Matrix Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Matrix Widget | Scheme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boaz Burnett | Vitor de Freitas |
In-app purchases
Matrix Widget
No in-app purchases
Scheme
- Scheme Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Scheme Pro (Lifetime)$29.99
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