Comparison

Taozi vs Elements

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

Head to head
About

Taozi

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
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Peach is now Taozi. Discover HD wallpapers and minimal, retro-inspired widgets. Personalize your Home Screen with clocks, calendars, weather, step counts, and battery widgets. Want a better-looking iPhone Home Screen without the ads? Taozi 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. Taozi 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. Elements is a design system for widgets: set the typeface, the accent, the background and the density once, and 33 kinds of widget wear it — on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, StandBy, CarPlay, and on your Mac. 173 designed faces. 267 backgrounds, 118 of them photographs. 80 colour sets, 12 accent colours, or your own. 218 finished looks you can apply in one tap and then keep tweaking. 17 KINDS FREE, THE REST ONE AD AWAY Clock, weather, next event, calendar, battery and storage, world clock, countdown, days since, dots, today, sunrise and sunset, moon, prayer times, quote, word of the day, verse of the day and a groceries list are free to place and keep. Every other widget is free for 7 days after one short ad, as often as you like. Elements Pro removes the ads and unlocks everything for good. 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 • Analog dials, 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. Size it, turn it, give it a paper edge, and let the widget rotate through your shelf. MINI-APPS YOU FILL YOURSELF Habits you check off. Tallies you count. Subscriptions with renewal reminders. A focus timer. A fasting window. Places, moments, quotes and words of your own. Readings your Shortcuts write into. A canvas you compose from blocks. Habits and tallies keep their streaks and totals, and all of it stays on your phone. FED BY YOUR SHORTCUTS Your automations can write straight into a widget: a reading, a habit, a counter, 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. 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. Widget Health shows what actually reloaded today. PROGRESS WITHOUT PRESSURE Streaks, totals and a small celebration when you reach a goal — and you can switch celebrations off. No streak repairs to buy, no leaderboards, and no red marks for a day you missed. THREE THEMES, LIGHT AND DARK Ink Bento, Dawn Glass and Pop. Each design can pin its own theme and light/dark, so one widget stays 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 a place you pin, to Apple for a forecast; a few widgets fetch public data such as exchange rates or feeds you add. There are no accounts. The free version shows ads from Google AdMob. Ads are personalised only if you allow tracking when asked; otherwise they are less personal. In the UK and EU you choose in a consent form, and can change it any time in Settings. Elements Pro has no ads. ELEMENTS PRO Every widget, every face, every photograph and colour set, the bundled typefaces and icon styles, unlimited saved designs, and no ads. Yearly, monthly or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://thesolanalabs.com/elements/privacy/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Taozi3 screens
Elements4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Taozi at none against Elements's shown. Taozi also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 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. Taozi sells 6 one-off in-app purchases 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

Taozi ships an update every 5 days, Elements every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Taozi versus Elements: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaoziElements
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer玉杰 张Touseef Hassan Nasir

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Taozi

One-time6
  • Peach Membership — 30 Days$0.99
  • Peach Membership — 7 Days$0.99
  • Monthly Membership$2.99
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  • Peach Premium — 1 Year$9.99
  • Peach Lifetime Membership$14.99
  • Lifetime Upgrade$14.99
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 Taozi free?
Taozi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Elements free?
Elements is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Taozi or Elements have ads?
Elements shows ads; Taozi does not.
Which is updated more often, Taozi or Elements?
Taozi ships an update every 5 days, and Elements every 6 days. Most recently, Taozi was updated on October 24, 2026 and Elements on October 21, 2026.

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