Comparison

Widgets Now vs Secure Charging Animations

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

Head to head
About

Widgets Now

Design custom widgets for your home and lock screens with various types and extensive customization options. Track shared numbers with others, like fitness goals or savings, with live updates and leaderboards.

Highlights
  • 21 widget types (clocks, weather, photos, etc.)
  • Extensive design customization (themes, gradients, fonts)
  • Shared number tracking with leaderboards
  • Live Activities for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • App Clip for instant sharing
Features
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Widget Now is a widget studio — and a way to keep one number in front of the people who share it with you. DESIGN YOUR OWN WIDGETS Start from 21 widget types: clocks, world clocks, calendars, countdowns, live weather, sunrise and sunset, moon phase, activity rings, steps, water, photos, battery, reminders, quotes and more. Then make them yours with 14 theme presets, 16 gradients, solid colours and photo backgrounds, 20 typefaces, and adjustable corners, padding and borders — with a live preview that updates as you edit. Every design works on both the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. TRACK ONE NUMBER TOGETHER Pick something you and someone else both care about — miles run, waters drunk, deals closed, pages read, days sober, money saved — and Widget Now keeps it in sync between you. Everyone's contributions roll into a single total with a leaderboard, and that number lands on every surface iOS offers: • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • A Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • A full-screen dashboard when you AirPlay to an Apple TV Invite someone with a link, a message or a QR code. When they tap it, an App Clip shows them the group straight away — they can put it on their Lock Screen before installing anything. LIVE ACTIVITIES Design timers, event countdowns, progress trackers and live counters in your own colours and symbols, then run them on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. SYNCS WITH ICLOUD Your designs follow you across iPhone and iPad automatically. Shared groups sync to everyone in the group, and updates arrive on their own — no refresh button. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no sign-ups, and no servers of ours. Everything lives in your own iCloud. What you share is limited to the people you share it with, and the contents of a shared group are stored encrypted. Widget Now collects no analytics and shows no ads.

About

Secure Charging Animations

Features
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Make charging as good as it looks. Secure Charging Animations turns your plain iPhone charging screen into a cinematic, AMOLED-optimized display, with the animation, security, and live stats to match. Plug in, and watch your battery come alive: pulsing rings, liquid battery fills, neon glows, and moon-phase eclipses that turn a boring wait into something worth watching. Built specifically for OLED displays, every animation uses true blacks so the glow really pops. 50+ PREMIUM ANIMATIONS From subtle and elegant to bold and neon, choose from a growing library of charging animations: Pulse Ring, Liquid Battery, Neon Liquid, Moon Eclipse, Orbit Ring, and dozens more. Free animations get you started; go Pro to unlock the full library. REAL BATTERY DATA, NO GUESSING See your live battery percentage, estimated time to full, and estimated charging wattage, all calculated from your device's own real charging rate, not a fake fixed number. Smooth, interpolated percentage updates fill in the gaps between iOS's coarse battery readings, so the number never sits frozen. LOCKED DOWN, YOUR WAY Protect your charging screen the moment it's plugged in: - Face ID unlock, with automatic PIN fallback if Face ID fails or isn't available - 4-digit PIN lock as a standalone option, independent of Face ID - Intruder Detection logs every failed unlock attempt with a timestamp, so you always know if someone tried to get in - PIN setup is optional at first launch. Skip it and turn protection on anytime later from Settings, no reinstall or reset needed WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets keep your battery percentage and time to full visible without opening the app, glanceable, live, and always up to date while you're charging. SMART NOTIFICATIONS Get notified the moment your charger connects or your battery hits 100%, plus optional daily reminders, all with cooldown logic so you're never spammed with duplicate alerts. SIRI SHORTCUTS AND AUTOMATION Trigger your charging animation hands-free with built-in Siri Shortcuts and App Intents, or launch straight into the app with full custom deep-link support. MADE TO FIT YOU - Light, Dark, and Auto themes throughout the app - A guided first-launch walkthrough that gets you set up in seconds - Charging sound and haptic feedback, each toggle independently - Auto-hide and lock-timeout controls for the charging screen AVAILABLE IN 7 LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, with full in-app language switching, no reinstall required. DESIGNED FOR OLED Every animation, every gradient, every lock screen is built around true blacks and an electric-cyan accent, so it looks as good on a Pro Max as it does on the smallest iPhone. Secure Charging Animations is free to download, with premium animations and ad removal available as an optional upgrade. No account required. Secure Charging Animations requires iOS 17.0 or later. Privacy Policy: https://mralihaidar.github.io/app-legal/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Widgets Now4 screens
Secure Charging Animations4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Widgets Now at none against Secure Charging Animations's 3. Widgets Now also leads on ads (none vs shown). Secure Charging Animations's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.5). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Secure Charging Animations sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Widgets Now asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widgets Now ships an update every 2 months, Secure Charging Animations fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Widgets Now versus Secure Charging Animations: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidgets NowSecure Charging Animations
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.517.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB132 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmol SrivastavaAli Haidar

In-app purchases

None

Widgets Now

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Secure Charging Animations

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Premium$0.997 Days
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Widgets Now free?
Widgets Now is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Secure Charging Animations free?
Secure Charging Animations is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Widgets Now or Secure Charging Animations have ads?
Secure Charging Animations shows ads; Widgets Now does not.
Which is updated more often, Widgets Now or Secure Charging Animations?
Widgets Now ships an update every 2 months, and Secure Charging Animations fortnightly. Most recently, Widgets Now was updated on October 28, 2026 and Secure Charging Animations on November 13, 2026.

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