Comparison

Mood vs Aura

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

Head to head
About

Mood

Features
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Make your iPhone screen truly yours! Mood creates beautiful, fully customizable widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen — 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!

About

Aura

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Mood4 screens
Aura4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Aura sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mood asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
Mood versus Aura: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMoodAura
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB77 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevskin Desenvolvimento de Softwares ltdaGunawan Santoso

In-app purchases

None

Mood

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Aura

One-time1
  • Aura Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Mood free?
Mood is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aura free?
Aura is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mood or Aura have ads?
Neither Mood nor Aura shows ads.

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