Car Dashboard Widgets vs Dashly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Car Dashboard Widgets
Personalize your car's dashboard with custom widgets displaying information like weather, time, car details, or photos. Set up widgets once for automatic display when you start your car, and use them on your iPhone's Home Screen too.
- Customizable dashboard widgets
- Display car info, weather, time, photos
- Works on car dashboards and iPhone Home Screen
- Over 30 ready-made designs
- AI photo studio for custom scenes
- Personalized widget suggestions
- Customizable sounds for car connection
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Your car dashboard, exactly how you want it. Dashly lets you build widgets and put them straight on your car dashboard — your car, the weather, the time, where you parked, or a photo you love. Set it up once and it is there every time you start the car. The same widgets work on your iPhone Home Screen in small, medium and large sizes. BUILD IT YOUR WAY • Start from more than 30 ready-made designs and make them yours • Live preview while you edit, so you see it before you save • Keep a library of widgets and swap them between dashboard slots any time WHAT YOU CAN PUT IN THE CAR • Your car — brand badge, model and plate • Weather — conditions, detail, UV index, sunrise and sunset • Time — digital, analog, world clock, date, countdown, year progress • Your parking spot and car care reminders • Photos, with the background cut out on your device • Moon phase, country flags and couple widgets • Football clubs, NBA and NFL teams • Car facts, car jokes, memes, road trip and drive safe notes • Affirmations, Stoic lines, Christian verses and Qur'an verses • Horoscope, with dials and levels SOUNDS Choose a sound or generate one with your name for connecting to your car, for disconnecting, or for arriving home. One quick setup in Shortcuts and it plays every time, even when Dashly is closed. AI PHOTO STUDIO Add a photo of yourself and one of your car, and AI puts you both in a scene. Save it, share it, or turn it into a widget. MADE FOR YOU Tell Dashly what you drive and what you are into, and the widgets that suit you come first. Everything else stays one tap away. DASHLY PRO A subscription unlocks every widget, all content and the advanced tools. Weekly and annual plans, handled by Apple, cancel any time. Privacy Policy: https://piiko.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://piiko.app/terms
Dashly
Personalize your car's digital dashboard with custom widgets, AI-generated artwork, and animated GIFs. Create unique designs for your vehicle, add personal touches like photos and text, and even set custom sounds for driving automations.
- Personalized car widgets
- AI-generated car artwork
- GIF and video widgets
- Customizable car sounds
- License plate designs
- Countdown widgets
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Make your car screen yours. Dashly lets you create personalized car widgets, automotive designs, AI car artwork, GIFs, custom sounds and more for your driving setup. CREATE YOUR OWN CAR WIDGETS Build a dashboard that feels like yours. Choose your vehicle, customize the design, add logos, text, colors and personal details, then save your favorite creations to My Widgets. PERSONALIZE YOUR CAR • Vehicle Style widgets with cars, logos and custom layouts • Car logo widgets with customizable backgrounds • Custom license plate designs and plate text • AI-generated personalized car artwork • GIF and video widgets • Couple and relationship widgets • Countdown widgets for birthdays, trips and important moments • Dynamic moon phase widgets • Custom text and photo designs • Football club logo widgets • Music and vinyl-inspired widgets • Stickers, colors, fonts and multiple visual styles AI CREATE Turn your own photos into a personalized automotive design. Upload a photo of your car and a photo of yourself, and Dashly creates a custom car-themed widget artwork designed for your setup. GIFS & VIDEO Bring your widgets to life with animated content. Discover GIFs or use your own compatible media to create something more personal than a standard dashboard. CUSTOM CAR SOUNDS Make every drive feel different with customizable sounds for supported driving automations, including connection and disconnection experiences. WIDGETS FOR EVERY STYLE Go minimal, sporty, colorful, aesthetic or completely personal. Dashly includes a growing collection of templates designed around cars, photos, relationships, music, events and more. EASY TO CREATE Pick a widget, customize it and add it to your collection. Dashly keeps creation simple while giving you control over the details that matter. PREMIUM Upgrade to Dashly Pro to unlock premium customization, additional designs and advanced features. Subscriptions are managed securely through your Apple ID and can be restored from within the app. Your car is part of your everyday life. Make the screen feel like yours with Dashly. Some functionality depends on device, iOS version and supported in-car experiences. Apple and CarPlay are trademarks of Apple Inc. Dashly is an independent application and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. Privacy Policy: https://getdashly.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://getdashly.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Car Dashboard Widgets at 4.5 against Dashly's 1.0. Car Dashboard Widgets also leads on ratings volume (24 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Car Dashboard Widgets sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Dashly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Car Dashboard Widgets holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Car Dashboard Widgets has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Car Dashboard Widgets ships an update every 3 days, Dashly every 6 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Car Dashboard Widgets | Dashly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 184 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piiko Apps OU | KK Ventures, UAB |
Customer experience
Car Dashboard Widgets
Dashly
In-app purchases
Car Dashboard Widgets
- Dashly Pro: Weekly Offer3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Dashly Pro: Weekly$4.997 Days
- Dashly Pro: Yearly$21.991 Year
- Car Dashboard Lifetime$39.99
Dashly
- Dashly Pro Weekly$3.997 Days
- Dashly Pro Yearly$79.991 Year
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