Comparison

Clink vs WhyNot Widgets

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

Head to head
About

Clink

This keyboard app offers extensive customization for appearance, layout, and typing experience. Enjoy unique visual themes, adjustable layouts, advanced swipe typing, and offline autocorrect. It also includes helpful tools like cursor control and a clipboard history.

Highlights
  • Liquid Glass visual theme
  • Extensive theme editor
  • Multiple keyboard layouts
  • Split keyboard option
  • Advanced swipe typing
  • Offline autocorrect and predictions
  • Cursor control via spacebar
Features
Read full description

Clink is a custom keyboard for iPhone and iPad. Choose how it looks, arrange the keys, change the sounds and keep useful tools close to where you type. Start with a preset you like, or make a keyboard of your own. Choose a simple theme, metal keys, raised 3D keycaps or translucent Liquid Glass. Change colours, fonts, gradients, outlines and key shapes. Set separate themes for Light and Dark Mode. The live preview lets you type while you make changes. Add a photo background or put artwork on individual keys, with framing controls to get the placement right. Canvas mode lets you edit each key. Export your theme to share it, or import one someone else has made. Choose QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, Dvorak or a layout for your language. Try Clink Flow for two thumbs. Add a number row, use a split keyboard or switch to one-handed mode. Adjust height, width and spacing, and add custom keys and rows for text or functions. Tap or swipe to type. Two-thumb word composition lets either hand continue the same word, combining taps and glides. Keep a simple swipe trail or choose one with colour, sparks or a comet tail. Autocomplete, autocorrect and swipe decoding work on your device, without an internet connection. Clink can learn your words and the corrections you reject; learning can be switched off or reset. Text replacements, smart punctuation and automatic capitals help with everyday typing. Use combined suggestions for multiple languages or keep them separate. Clink includes Japanese kana, Chinese Pinyin and Korean input, with language packs available to download. Features depend on the language and installed resources. Slide on the spacebar to move the cursor, or use trackpad mode for more control. Adjust sensitivity and activation timing to suit your hands. Predictive flick lets you accept suggestions directly from the keys. Clipboard history keeps saved clips in groups. The notepad holds text you want to use again, and the calculator handles quick sums and conversions. Find emoji with search, recent choices and skin tones. Arrange the panels around what you use. Use dictation when you would rather speak, handwriting to write with your finger, or translation to prepare text in another language. Supported translation works offline after its resources are downloaded. Dictation may use Apple's speech services. On compatible devices, writing tools use Apple's on-device models to proofread, rewrite, shorten, expand or summarise text. Change the tone or prepare a reply, then review it before use. Apple Intelligence support and downloaded models are required. Choose a system click or sound pack, set the volume and tune the haptics. Adjust how keys move and respond. Add lighting, stickers or a small pet that reacts as you type. Save setups as profiles and switch between them from the keyboard. Optional iCloud sync carries profiles and custom themes between devices. Text clipboard history and learned vocabulary sync are separate choices, both off by default. Build custom actions for repeated tasks or write a panel using the built-in Python subset. Add compatible theme, layout, font and sound packs to extend your setup. No Clink account, ads or cross-app tracking. Ordinary typing does not send your text to a server. Core typing works without Full Access; clipboard access, haptics, custom sounds and shared settings use that permission. Downloads, purchases, iCloud and some speech features need a connection. Requires iOS 17 or later. Liquid Glass, translation and Apple Intelligence features depend on your iOS version, device, language and available resources. Setup walks you through adding Clink in iOS Settings. Switch to it with the globe key wherever custom keyboards are supported. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

WhyNot Widgets

Organize your most-used apps into a single widget for quick access. Customize the appearance and choose from various pre-designed clock and utility widgets to personalize your Home Screen.

Highlights
  • Launch up to nine apps from a single widget
  • Customizable widget styles and layouts
  • Native app icon display
  • Pre-designed analog and digital clock widgets
  • Hand-drawn, artistic widget designs
  • One-time purchase packs for expanded features
Features
Read full description

Nine apps. One widget. One tap. WhyNot puts a tiny app drawer on your Home Screen. Pick up to nine apps, choose a style, and every one of them launches with a single tap. No folders to open. Many apps launch straight from the widget, the rest pass through WhyNot for a moment, and the picker tells you which is which. BUILD IT YOUR WAY • Up to nine apps in the smallest widget size. One app or nine, the layout adapts. • Light and Dark show the real app icons, as they look on a light or a dark Home Screen. Mono and Ghost are two quieter looks. • Fill, or anchor the drawer to a corner for a folder-like cluster. • Hold a tile and drag it to rearrange. CLOCKS WITH CHARACTER • Dial: a quiet analog clock inspired by classic industrial design. Small, medium, and a large desk clock with your week laid out underneath. • Flip: a split-flap clock that rolls over on the minute. • Almanac: the month on a card, in Flip's material. Two keys turn the pages, the name brings today back. Free. • Every widget is built for light mode, dark mode, and the Clear look. Pin any widget to always light or always dark, whatever your phone is set to. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT Every widget is drawn by hand, with real shadows, real materials, and one light source. Nothing is a template. Nothing is a screenshot of something else. PACKS (one-time purchases) • Halo: three screens on one large instrument, your wallpaper showing through. Home has the week, what is next and today's steps, Move and Exercise from Health with the goals. Next has the coming events and reminders, with a countdown. Outside has the weather from sunrise to sunset, hour by hour and four days out. The keys switch screens; a slider sets how much wallpaper shows. • Quartz: a desk clock from the nineties, in seven cases from olive to cream. A window for the date, the day or the temperature, numerals in figures or Roman. Tap to open Clock. • Vinyl: your record on a turntable, drawn after the classic Braun deck. The album artwork is the label, the record turns while Apple Music plays, the arm lifts when it stops, and back, play and next work from the widget. Small is the platter, medium is the whole deck. • Tally: a desk calculator from the seventies, on your Home Screen. Every key works. Small for quick sums, large for the whole instrument. Keeps the last result. • Frontpage: your day as a newspaper front page, in the tall widget size that arrived with iOS 27. The next event is the headline, more events and your reminders run in columns, real headlines from a source you choose or your own feed fill the fold, and tomorrow's weather closes the page. Three newspaper typefaces, newsprint grain, pressed type. • Console: your day at a glance. What is next and how long until it, the week ahead, and the sky, one tap apart on the widget. Every block opens Calendar or Weather directly. • Golden: when the light will be good. Golden hour and blue hour for where you are, on one living sky where the sun rises and sets across your Home Screen. The time is lit by the light of the moment. Tap to open the Camera. • WhyNot Pro: Scenes, your drawer set in a place, with the apps that belong there. Glass, the drawer on a frosted panel with your wallpaper showing through. Unlimited drawers, each widget showing a different one. Gradient backgrounds inspired by iPhone finishes or your own two colors. Buy once, keep forever. No subscriptions. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No analytics. Your drawers live on your phone and nowhere else. Console, Golden, Frontpage and Halo use your approximate location for Apple Weather and, if you allow it, your calendars and reminder lists. Halo reads today's Health figures on your phone, only if you allow it. A feed you add is fetched by your phone, not by us. Nothing about you ever reaches us. WhyNot is made by This is E.

Screenshots

Clink4 screens
WhyNot Widgets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: WhyNot Widgets at daily against Clink's every 3 days. WhyNot Widgets also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). Clink's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Clink sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and WhyNot Widgets sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Clink against 4.0 for WhyNot Widgets. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 45 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Clink's written reviews are positive against 70% of WhyNot Widgets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clink ships an update every 3 days, WhyNot Widgets daily. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Clink versus WhyNot Widgets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClinkWhyNot Widgets
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (37 ratings)4.0 (45 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.6% of reviews — better70.5% of reviews
Number of ratings3745 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size160 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam WhitehouseIskren Georgiev

Customer experience

Clink

All ratings37 ratings
Positive70.3%
Neutral8.1%
Negative21.6%
Written reviews72 reviews
Positive73.6%
Neutral6.9%
Negative19.4%

WhyNot Widgets

All ratings45 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral6.7%
Negative15.6%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive70.5%
Neutral6.8%
Negative22.7%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Clink

Subscriptions2
  • Clink Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Clink Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Clink Lifetime$14.99
8 purchases

WhyNot Widgets

One-time8
  • Tally$5.99
  • Vinyl$5.99
  • Quartz$5.99
Show 5 more
  • Golden$5.99
  • Frontpage$9.99
  • Halo$9.99
  • WhyNot Pro$9.99
  • Console$9.99

Questions

Is Clink free?
Clink is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WhyNot Widgets free?
WhyNot Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clink or WhyNot Widgets?
WhyNot Widgets is rated higher. Clink averages 3.9 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while WhyNot Widgets averages 4.0 from 45 ratings.
Do Clink or WhyNot Widgets have ads?
Neither Clink nor WhyNot Widgets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clink or WhyNot Widgets?
Clink ships an update every 3 days, and WhyNot Widgets daily. Most recently, Clink was updated on October 19, 2026 and WhyNot Widgets on October 15, 2026.

Other comparisons