Comparison

widgets X vs Shrine

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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: • Custom Home Screen Widgets Create and personalize widgets with different layouts, fonts, colors, and styles. • Lock Screen Widgets Enhance your Lock Screen with elegant and useful widgets for quick access to important information. • Beautiful Themes Discover professionally designed themes that instantly transform the appearance of your iPhone. • High-Quality Wallpapers Browse a growing collection of wallpapers designed to perfectly match your widgets and themes. • Clock Widgets Choose from modern, minimal, digital, and analog clock designs. • Photo Widgets Display your favorite photos directly on your Home Screen. • Step Counter Widgets Track your daily activity with stylish health and step widgets. • 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 the full page widget maker for fans: a kpop widget, a concert countdown or a birthday countdown, built from your own photos and filling the whole extra-large iOS 27 widget. One cute home screen 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 so the page works as a text widget, 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. Make widgets you would have drawn yourself. KPOP WIDGET, COUNTDOWN WIDGET, ALL ON ONE PAGE Photo tiles 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: the concert countdown and the birthday countdown live on the same page as the photos. Stats that say 365 days, 100% vibes or whatever number matters to you. Every tile lives together, so your kpop widget, your bts widget, your anime widget or your best friend page reads as one shrine instead of a scatter of small widgets. CUTE WIDGETS, Y2K WIDGETS AND AESTHETIC THEMES 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 and kawaii widgets for the bff page, y2k widgets for the throwback era, pink widgets for the soft 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. Shrine is a wallpaper maker too: export the page as a hi-res image and set it as your lock screen wallpaper, so your lock screen and your shrine page belong together. DIY WIDGETS, 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: diy widgets, no design degree needed. 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 PAGE 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: these are the iPhone widgets 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. Some features are available through an optional subscription; 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

The clearest difference is update cadence: Shrine at weekly against widgets X's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. 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 weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
widgets X versus Shrine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterwidgets XShrine
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMo'men HemeidEren Demirkesen

In-app purchases

3 purchases

widgets X

Subscriptions2
  • اشتراك شهري$1.991 Month
  • اشتراك سنوي في التطبيق$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • اشتراك مدى الحياه$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 weekly. Most recently, widgets X was updated on October 11, 2026 and Shrine on October 24, 2026.

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