Mood vs Aura
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Mood
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Make your iPhone screen truly yours! Mood creates beautiful, fully customizable widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen ā pick a template, tweak everything and see the result live. MANY WIDGET TYPES ⢠Photo from your library ⢠Analog and digital clock ⢠Date and calendar ⢠Countdown to special dates ⢠Weather ⢠Custom quote or text ⢠Battery CUSTOMIZE EVERY DETAIL ⢠Background and text color ⢠System fonts and text size ⢠Corner radius and opacity ⢠Light, dark or automatic theme ⢠Live preview while you edit HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN ⢠Small, medium and large sizes ⢠Lock Screen widgets (circular, rectangular and inline) ⢠Create as many widgets as you like and choose which to show FULL PRIVACY ⢠Runs 100% on your device ⢠No sign-up, no login, no account ⢠No ads and no tracking ⢠Free Download Mood and build a unique Home Screen, your way!
Aura
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Make your home screen yours. Aura brings aesthetic widgets for your home screen and lock screen, plus wallpapers, icon art and home-screen kits that match. Widgets on your iPhone ⢠12 styles: clocks, countdowns, calendars, daily words, an anniversary and a photo frame ⢠Add Aura from your home screen's widget gallery, then pick your design with Edit Widget ⢠Small, medium and large on the home screen, plus lock screen widgets (iOS 17 or later) ⢠Countdowns for your own event and date, updated every day ⢠Daily Words brings a new quote each day ⢠Live editor: font, colour, gradient and size, with an instant preview Home-screen kits ⢠Six kits, each an Aura art wallpaper, widgets styled to match and an icon pack ⢠Save kit puts the wallpaper and the icons in Photos and adds the widgets to Aura in your widget gallery ⢠A checklist shows what each step did Wallpapers sized for your iPhone ⢠20 wallpapers, including eight Aura art pieces, two of them made for OLED screens ⢠Saved to Photos in one tap; set it from there for your lock screen and home screen ⢠Rendered at your screen's own resolution Icon art for your home screen ⢠Five styles: pastel, neon dark, clean line, 3D glossy and minimal mono ⢠Icons save to Photos; use one with the Shortcuts app, and Aura shows you how Made for browsing ⢠Search across every widget, wallpaper, icon pack and kit ⢠Favourites and your saved designs in Mine ⢠Local backup and restore, widget photos included Private by design Your designs stay on your device. No account, no sign-up. An internet connection is only used to show ads. Premium packs unlock for good with one short, optional video, or all at once with Aura Pro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mood at none against Aura's 1. Aura's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Aura sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mood asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Mood | Aura |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | ā | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devskin Desenvolvimento de Softwares ltda | Gunawan Santoso |
In-app purchases
Mood
No in-app purchases
Aura
- Aura Pro$4.99









