Aura vs Elements

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.

Aesthetic widgets that match — because you designed them that way. Most widget apps hand you a pile of unrelated widgets. Elements gives you a design system: set the typeface, the accent, the background and the density once, and 32 kinds of widget wear it — on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, StandBy, CarPlay, and on your Mac. 145 designed faces. 206 backgrounds, 118 of them photographs. 12 accent colours, or your own. 180 finished looks you can apply in one tap and then keep tweaking. WIDGETS THAT KNOW SOMETHING • Weather written as a sentence — "31° now, feels 35°. Haze till 6pm." • Your next event, your month at a glance, and how long until the next thing • A groceries list you tick off from the Home Screen • Steps, distance and sleep, read from Health • Sunrise, sunset, the moon's phase, and how much daylight you lost since yesterday • Prayer times, computed on device from five published methods • Currency at the day's published reference rate • Battery, storage, world clocks, countdowns, a verse, a word, your own feeds CUT OUT A SUBJECT AND STICK IT ON YOUR SCREEN Pick a photo and Elements lifts the subject out of it — no background, just the thing. Size it, turn it, nudge it, give it a paper edge. Keep a shelf of them and let the widget rotate through. MINI-APPS YOU FILL YOURSELF Habits you check off. Tallies you count. Subscriptions with renewal reminders. A focus timer. A fasting window. Readings your own Shortcuts write into. A canvas you compose from blocks. All of it stays on your phone. FED BY YOUR SHORTCUTS Four Shortcuts actions let your automations write straight into a widget: update a reading, check in a habit, adjust a counter, set a canvas block. State how often your shortcut runs and the widget will say "as of 9:41" when it misses — a stale number never poses as a fresh one. CORRECT, OR IT TELLS YOU WHY The most common complaint about widgets is that they go stale, blank, or wrong. Elements treats that as a feature to build, not a bug to apologise for. Every widget knows how fresh its data is and says so. Every failure is named — "no location fix", "offline", "not allowed" — instead of one shrug. There is a Widget Health screen that shows what actually reloaded today against the system's own budget. NOTHING HERE IS A SCORE No badges. No XP. No streak repairs to buy. No confetti, no leaderboards, no red marks for a day you missed — a missed day is an empty dot. The reward is that the number is right and the typography is good. THREE THEMES, LIGHT AND DARK Ink Bento is near-black panes and feather numerals. Dawn Glass is warm paper. Pop is flat saturated colour. Every design can pin its own theme and its own light/dark, so one widget can be dark while another follows your phone. PRIVACY Calendar, Reminders, Health and everything you type stay on your device. Health access is read-only and the widget extension never touches it. Weather sends your location — or the place you pin — to Apple to get a forecast, and a few widgets fetch public data like exchange rates or the headlines from feeds you add yourself. There are no accounts, no analytics and no tracking. Four finished widgets — clock, weather, next event, battery and storage — fully styleable, no ads, no watermarks. Elements Pro unlocks the rest of the catalog, saved designs, and the mini-apps. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/