Comparison

Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro vs Elements

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

Head to head
About

Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro

Enhance your iPhone's Home Screen with a collection of thoughtfully designed widgets. Add useful information like clocks, calendars, steps, and battery levels with minimal, aesthetic styles and customization options. Enjoy a clean, ad-free experience focused on simplicity and personalization.

Highlights
  • Clocks and calendars
  • Steps and battery widgets
  • Date and time widgets
  • Minimal, aesthetic styles
  • Customization options
  • Growing collection of free widgets
Features
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Peach Premium lifetime membership is now available. One purchase unlocks Peach Premium forever. Want a better-looking iPhone Home Screen without the ads? Peach is a clean, ad-free widget app with plenty of free widgets and new designs added over time. Instead of filling the app with endless repeated templates, we focus on carefully designing every widget. Discover: • Clock, calendar and weather widgets • Steps, battery, date and time • Minimal, retro, cute and expressive styles • Plenty of free widgets you can use right away • A simple, natural iPhone experience Choose a widget you like and add it to your Home Screen in just a few steps. Keep useful information at a glance while making your iPhone feel more like your own. Peach is now optimized for iOS 27, with clear, reliable widgets.

About

Elements

Features
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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/

Screenshots

Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro3 screens
Elements4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro at none against Elements's shown. Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Elements sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro ships an update every 4 days, Elements every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro versus Elements: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPeach Widgets · Minimal RetroElements
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB96 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer玉杰 张Touseef Hassan Nasir

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro

One-time1
  • Peach Membership — 1 Year$13.99
3 purchases

Elements

Subscriptions2
  • Elements Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Elements Pro Yearly1 Month trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Elements Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro free?
Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Elements free?
Elements is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro or Elements have ads?
Elements shows ads; Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro does not.
Which is updated more often, Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro or Elements?
Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro ships an update every 4 days, and Elements every 3 days. Most recently, Peach Widgets · Minimal Retro was updated on October 1, 2026 and Elements on September 17, 2026.

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