Comparison

widgets X vs Shrine

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

Head to head
About

widgets X

Features
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Widgets X is the ultimate customization app for iPhone, helping you create a unique and personalized home screen with beautiful widgets, themes, wallpapers, and icon styles. Transform your device with fully customizable widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen. Choose from a wide collection of clock widgets, calendar widgets, photo widgets, step counter widgets, and aesthetic designs that match your personal style. Features: โ€ข Custom Home Screen Widgets Create and personalize widgets with different layouts, fonts, colors, and styles. โ€ข Lock Screen Widgets Enhance your Lock Screen with elegant and useful widgets for quick access to important information. โ€ข Beautiful Themes Discover professionally designed themes that instantly transform the appearance of your iPhone. โ€ข High-Quality Wallpapers Browse a growing collection of wallpapers designed to perfectly match your widgets and themes. โ€ข Clock Widgets Choose from modern, minimal, digital, and analog clock designs. โ€ข Photo Widgets Display your favorite photos directly on your Home Screen. โ€ข Step Counter Widgets Track your daily activity with stylish health and step widgets. โ€ข Easy Customization Create personalized setups in just a few taps without complicated configuration. Widgets X is designed for users who want a clean, modern, and fully customized iPhone experience. Whether you prefer minimal designs, aesthetic themes, modern widgets, or productivity-focused layouts, Widgets X gives you the tools to make your device truly yours. Quran Karim Download Widgets X today and create a Home Screen that reflects your style. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x8skth3y25g6wGXdoNpD4Mgb6x04-KvRs-fkUjjhrYw/edit?usp=sharing terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/ae/terms.html

About

Shrine

Features
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Shrine is a full page widget maker for fandoms. Build a home screen widget from your own photos, a live countdown and big stats, then let it fill the entire extra-large iOS 27 widget: one whole page for the thing you love most, instead of a small square in the corner. BUILD A FULL PAGE WIDGET IN MINUTES Pick a layout template such as Grid Shrine, Full Bleed, Countdown Focus, About Me or Stats Board, and treat the page like a moodboard. Add photo tiles from your camera roll, write a line or two, set a date to count down to, drop in a stat with a big number. Reorder tiles until it feels right, and the live preview shows exactly what your page will look like. It is the custom widget you would have drawn yourself. PHOTO WIDGET, COUNTDOWN WIDGET, ALL ON ONE PAGE A photo widget for the faces you want to see every time you unlock your phone. A countdown widget to the concert, the finale or the comeback, ticking on its own. Stats that say 365 days, 100% vibes or whatever number matters to you. Every tile lives on the same page, so your kpop widget, your anime page or your best friend page reads as one shrine instead of a scatter of small widgets. CUTE WIDGETS AND AESTHETIC THEMES FOR EVERY MOOD Themes give every shrine its own look, from the soft indigo of Lilac Dream to the pale chrome of Y2K Chrome and the warm pink of Cherry Pop: cute widgets for the bff page, Y2K pages for the throwback era. Pick one and the whole page restyles, whether that is a kpop theme for the comeback or a softer widget theme for your best friend page, so your aesthetic widget matches the rest of your home screen. Subscribers can export the page as a hi-res image for the lock screen. RIGHT ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Add the Shrine widget at the extra large widget size and your page is there every time you unlock your phone. Edit the shrine and the home screen widget updates the moment you save. Keep more than one shrine; the one you edited last is the one on your page. A FANDOM APP THAT STAYS YOURS Shrine is a fandom app with no account, because it does not need one. Your photos stay on your device and nothing you add to a shrine is uploaded anywhere. Aesthetic, fandom, home screen: this is the iOS 27 widget built for those three words. Full page widgets need iOS 27 on iPhone. On iOS 18 through 26, and on iPad, Shrine gives you the same tiles, templates and themes as a Large widget. Shrine is free to download. Using it requires a subscription; the details are shown in the app before any purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://shrine-ios-app.web.app/privacy

Screenshots

widgets X3 screens
Shrine4 screens

Verdict

The call

widgets X and Shrine are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. widgets X sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Shrine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

widgets X ships an update every 3 weeks, Shrine every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
widgets X versus Shrine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterwidgets XShrine
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size48 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMo'men HemeidEren Demirkesen

In-app purchases

3 purchases

widgets X

Subscriptions2
  • ุงุดุชุฑุงูƒ ุดู‡ุฑูŠ$1.991 Month
  • ุงุดุชุฑุงูƒ ุณู†ูˆูŠ ููŠ ุงู„ุชุทุจูŠู‚$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • ุงุดุชุฑุงูƒ ู…ุฏู‰ ุงู„ุญูŠุงู‡$17.99
3 purchases

Shrine

Subscriptions2
  • Shrine Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Shrine Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Shrine Pro Lifetime$74.99

Questions

Is widgets X free?
widgets X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shrine free?
Shrine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do widgets X or Shrine have ads?
Neither widgets X nor Shrine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, widgets X or Shrine?
widgets X ships an update every 3 weeks, and Shrine every 10 days. Most recently, widgets X was updated on October 11, 2026 and Shrine on October 12, 2026.

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