Comparison

Elements vs PickUp

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

Head to head
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/

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PickUp

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**PickUp makes collecting your packages effortless.** Tired of digging through delivery texts to find your pickup code? PickUp turns scattered messages into a clean, organized list of codes waiting for you. **Key Features** • Smart Scan: Snap a photo of a delivery text or screenshot and it auto-extracts the code, station, and locker number • On-device only: Photos and messages never leave your phone — your privacy is protected • Clear codes at a glance: Large, bold code cards ready to show at the locker, with auto-brightness • Expiry reminders: Get notified before a package expires, so it never gets returned • Family sharing: Share codes with family in one tap for easy pickups • Grouped by station: Cainiao, Hive Box and more, auto-sorted for faster lookup **Supported Scenarios** Cainiao stations, Hive Box lockers, courier cabinets, and pickup points — all common pickup scenarios covered. PickUp is your thoughtful code assistant. Download now and say goodbye to scrolling through messages. We sincerely welcome your valuable comments and feedback, and we will add or optimize relevant functions according to your requirements Email: sunjun20141@qq.com Membership subscription fees are charged monthly or annually according to different schemes. If necessary, we also provide a one-time payment service. -Subscription payments will be charged to the iTunes account when the purchase is confirmed. -The subscription will be automatically renewed unless automatic renewal is turned off 24 hours before the end of the current period. -The account will receive the renewal fee within 24 hours before the end of the current period and determine the renewal fee. -Users can manage subscriptions and turn off automatic renewal in iTunes account settings after purchase. =============== -Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ -Privacy Policy: https://docs.qq.com/doc/p/a1de546661e60c87d3c86aa9abf0dc549f2141f2

Screenshots

Elements4 screens
PickUp3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: PickUp at none against Elements's shown. PickUp 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 Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Elements sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and PickUp sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Elements versus PickUp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElementsPickUp
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTouseef Hassan Nasir军 孙

In-app purchases

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
3 purchases

PickUp

Subscriptions2
  • VIP Monthly$0.991 Month
  • VIP Year$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • PickUp Pro - Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is Elements free?
Elements is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PickUp free?
PickUp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Elements or PickUp have ads?
Elements shows ads; PickUp does not.
Which is updated more often, Elements or PickUp?
Elements ships an update every 4 days, and PickUp every 4 days. Most recently, Elements was updated on October 4, 2026 and PickUp on October 10, 2026.

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