Link Widget vs Wischy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Link Widget
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Your favorite websites, one tap away โ right from your Home Screen. Link Widget puts the sites you open all day into a simple list and a Home Screen widget, so the pages you actually use are always a single tap away. Add a link once, give it a title, and launch it instantly โ no digging through bookmarks, no retyping URLs. Features Large Home Screen widget that shows your links as a tappable list One tap opens any link in your default browser Simple two-screen app โ a Links list (add, edit, delete, reorder) and Settings Share Extension: send any URL from Safari or another app through the system Share sheet to add it instantly, with an editable title Automatic favicons fetched straight from each site, with a clean letter-tile fallback โ and it's optional, so you can turn fetching off Customize the widget: square or circle icons, show or hide a caption, and set the caption to the page Title or the URL Native look that adapts automatically to Light and Dark Mode Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac Why you'll love it If you open the same handful of sites every day โ a work dashboard, internal tools, a news page, a social feed โ they don't belong buried in a browser. Pin them to your Home Screen instead and reach them the moment you unlock your device. Set your list up once, reorder it whenever your routine changes, and add new links from anywhere with the Share sheet. It's a small change that quietly removes a dozen taps from your day. Privacy No accounts, no sign-in, no ads, and no tracking. Your links are stored locally on your device, and favicons are fetched directly from the websites you add โ there are no third-party analytics services involved.
Wischy
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Your photo library is full and you never get around to cleaning it up? Wischy turns it into a second per picture: swipe left or right โ that is the whole decision. HOW IT WORKS Swipe left to sort a photo out. Swipe right to keep it. Swipe up to set the favorite star, just like in the Photos app. NOTHING IS DELETED UNTIL YOU SAY SO Sorted-out items only go to the app's own trash. Tap any of them to get it back. The whole batch is deleted only on your command โ and iOS asks once, not once per photo. MISTAKES HAPPEN The undo button takes back your last decision. So does shaking the phone. And if you swipe away a favorite, you get asked first. CLEAN UP ON PURPOSE Take on just the videos, just the screenshots, just the bursts โ or everything. Sort by date or by file size: the ten largest videos often take up half of your storage. ONE MONTH AT A TIME The whole mountain is paralysing. A single month is manageable, and one day it is actually finished. JUDGE VIDEOS PROPERLY Videos play right on the card, with sound and a scrubber. A still frame will not tell you whether the shot is shaky. BURSTS AS ONE A burst is one card, not thirty. In full screen you decide picture by picture which shot stays. HONEST ABOUT STORAGE Deleted media stays for 30 days in the "Recently Deleted" album of the Photos app. Only then does iOS free the space โ or right away if you empty it there yourself. Wischy tells you instead of leaving you guessing. YOUR PHOTOS STAY WITH YOU No account, no server, no ads. The app works entirely on your iPhone. Anonymous usage statistics can be switched off in the settings.
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Verdict
Link Widget and Wischy are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Link Widget | Wischy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jens Rieckhof | Johann Brockstedt |
In-app purchases
Link Widget
No in-app purchases
Wischy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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