Mat vs tinwidget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mat
Create personalized widgets for your home screen using your own photos. Instantly cut out subjects from live camera feeds or your photo library, arrange them on custom mats with notes and decorations, and share your creations.
- Live camera cutouts
- Import photos for cutouts
- Arrange and layer cutouts on mats
- Add notes and decorations
- Share mats as wallpaper
- Collaborative mat building
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Mat is a little space for your memories — built from your own photos, arranged your way, living right on your Home Screen. Point your camera at anything — a friend, your dog, your coffee — and Mat cuts it out live, no background, no editing. Drop your cutouts onto a mat, move them around, layer them, make it yours. Then put your mat in a widget and it's with you every time you look at your phone. MAKE CUTOUTS INSTANTLY - Live camera cutouts — capture and cut out in one step - Import from your photo library - Letters and emoji to spell things out BUILD YOUR MATS - Arrange, resize, and layer cutouts freely - Daily mat with a calendar of your days - Postits for little notes to yourself SHARE THE MOMENT - Friend mats — build a mat together with someone - Share your mats to Instagram or export as wallpaper MAT PRO — ONE PAYMENT, YOURS FOREVER Unlock unlimited mats, unlimited cutouts, and the full decorations collection — clocks, polaroids, stamps, and paper letters. No subscription. Buy once, keep forever. Family Sharing supported. Mat is made for remembering the small stuff — the people, pets, and moments that make up your days. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
tinwidget
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Fill a little tin with photos and stickers, then put it on your Home Screen. tinwidget is a tiny scrapbook. Add your photos as framed prints or cut the people, pets and things out of them, type words in cut-out magazine letters, add stickers from fourteen packs, and arrange it all inside an open tin on a cloth backdrop. Your tin becomes a Home Screen widget in three sizes. • Auto decorate: pick a few photos and tinwidget lays out a finished tin for you, with matching stickers, a title and a backdrop. Tap Shuffle for another look. • Photo frames: add a photo as an instant print, a postage stamp, a film frame, a taped or torn print, a round or black-and-white photo. Change the frame any time. • Photo cutouts: pick a photo and tinwidget lifts the subject out for you. Every cutout is kept, so you can use it again in another tin. • Words three ways: cut-out magazine letters, a flowing script, or a paper label, in the colour you choose. • Fourteen sticker packs, 550 stickers: wax seals, postcards, postage stamps, a grocery run, sunwashed souvenirs, binder clips, glossy trinkets, little everyday things, a little bakery and its coffees, embroidered patches, Y2K desktop icons, a full alphabet of cut-out letters, party pets and gym cats, and retro halftone prints. Plus every emoji. • 62 backdrops: gingham, denim, linen, knits, paper and more, or your own photo. • Easy to arrange: drag, pinch and turn with your fingers. Bring a sticker to the front, tuck it behind the tin, give it a border, flip it or copy it. • Widgets: small, medium and large, and a different tin for each one. • Share it: post your tin to your Instagram Story in one tap, save it to Photos, or send it anywhere. • Decorate together: invite one person through iCloud and fill a tin together, each on your own half. • Private by design: no account, no sign-up, no tracking. Your tins live only on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. tinwidget is free with two tins, six backdrops and five sticker packs. One purchase unlocks everything, forever. No subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: tinwidget at every 9 days against Mat's every 3 weeks. tinwidget also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Mat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and tinwidget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mat ships an update every 3 weeks, tinwidget every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mat | tinwidget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 148 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rahul Bhadauriya | KERNBASE.STUDIO |
In-app purchases
Mat
- Mat Pro$29.99
tinwidget
- tinwidget — Everything$14.99









