Aura vs Themely

Make your home screen yours. Aura is an aesthetic widgets app — home screen widgets, wallpapers, icon packs and matching themes that are beautiful, free, and actually work. No ads just to apply anything. No bait paywall after you pick something you love. A generous free library, and changes that really land on your home screen. Aesthetic widgets that really go on your home screen • Digital and analog clock widgets that keep real time • Countdown and anniversary widgets that count actual days • A calendar widget for the current month • A daily quote widget • Live editor — change the font, colour, gradient and size and watch the preview update instantly • One tap to place it: Aura asks your launcher to drop the widget straight onto your home screen Wallpapers that get set, not just saved • Curated wallpaper packs: minimal, cute, dark, nature, abstract, seasonal • Choose home screen, lock screen, or both — Aura sets it for you • Rendered at your screen's own resolution so it stays sharp Icon packs you can actually put on your home screen • Four styles: pastel, dark, clean line and 3D glossy • Pick any app you have installed and Aura pins a styled shortcut for it • Search your apps by name • No watermarks, no ugly borders Coordinated home screen themes • A matching wallpaper and icon style in one tap Built for browsing • A real search across every widget, wallpaper and icon pack • Favourites, recents and your saved designs in one place • Local backup and restore Private by design All your designs stay on your device. No account, no sign-up, works offline. An internet connection is only used to show ads. Whether you want a cute pastel home screen, a clean minimal one, or a dark aesthetic setup, Aura has the widgets, wallpapers and icon packs to build it — and the live editor to make each one exactly yours. Download Aura and make your home screen unmistakably yours.

Your Lock Screen should look like you. Themely lets you design the widget, pick the wallpaper, and match them - free, and entirely on your device. Most widget apps hand you a grid of presets and lock the good ones behind a subscription. Themely works the other way round: you build the widget yourself, everything is unlocked from the first launch, and there is nothing to buy. THREE STEPS 1. Design a widget - choose what it shows, then style it until it fits. 2. Save a matching wallpaper to Photos. 3. Follow the short in-app guide to place both on your screens. DESIGN YOUR OWN WIDGETS Build a widget instead of settling for a preset. Pick what it shows, then style it until it fits your screen: - Six widget types - Clock, Date, Photo, Countdown, Time Progress and Battery - Three sizes - small, medium and large - Twelve background styles and four type styles - Live preview while you edit, so you see the result before you save 72 WALLPAPERS THAT MATCH Every wallpaper is drawn on your device from twelve color palettes and six art styles: Mesh, Waves, Rings, Grid, Blobs and Linear. Browse by mood - minimal, pastel, gradient, abstract or dark - and save any of them to Photos at full 1290 x 2796 resolution. No watermark, no export limit. TWELVE THEME PACKS A theme pack pairs a wallpaper with a matching widget style, so your Lock Screen and Home Screen agree with each other. Apply one and Themely walks you through both steps. BUILT FOR HOW iOS ACTUALLY WORKS iOS does not let any app place a widget or change your wallpaper for you. Themely does not pretend otherwise - it saves your design, then shows a short, clear guide for the two steps you do yourself. No shortcuts to install, no profiles to trust. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Themely has no ads, no analytics and no third-party SDKs. Your widgets, favorites and settings stay on your device, and a photo you pick for a Photo widget never leaves your phone. We collect nothing. WORKS OFFLINE All artwork is generated on your device, so the whole library works with no connection and the app stays small. NO ACCOUNT, NO SUBSCRIPTION No sign-up, no email, no free trial that quietly renews. Open the app and everything is already there. QUESTIONS Can Themely set my wallpaper for me? No - iOS reserves that step for you, and any app that claims otherwise cannot deliver it either. Will my designs sync between devices? No - everything is stored locally, which is the same reason nothing is ever sent anywhere. Is it really free? Yes. No paid tier, no in-app purchase, no trial. Requires iOS 17 or later. Questions or feedback: exostudio.feedback@gmail.com