Comparison

DataFastView vs Say In Bulbs

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

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About

DataFastView

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Make your Home Screen look the way you always wanted it to. DataFastView is a collection of twenty Home Screen widgets designed to look like they shipped with the phone — and to go transparent, so your wallpaper shows through every one of them. No subscriptions: the app is free, two widgets are free, and each page of widgets is a single purchase that is yours forever, on every iPhone signed in with your Apple Account. PICK A PAGE, MAKE IT YOURS • Status Portal — a large sci-fi control panel with the time, the weather, your month, your next events and reminders, and your battery. Two palettes. • Weather and time — today by the hour, the week ahead as soft curves, and a glass clock that looks like the Lock Screen's. • Calendar — the next events as cards, today's date, the whole month, and a large calendar with your events, reminders and the weather on one panel, by day and by night. • Productivity — ten shortcuts to your apps with their real icons, a four-tile version at icon size, and three world clocks that show whether it is day or night there. • Mail — unread messages from two accounts, on small or medium cards, in the colour you choose. Works with any IMAP account, Gmail included. • Health — this week's steps as a curve with today's count, and your average distance over the last 21 days. • Free — Storage and network, and the calendar list, for everyone. EVERY WIDGET CAN BE TRANSPARENT Each widget has a switch: draw its own background, or let your wallpaper through. Light and dark follow your phone. AND THE REST OF THE APP • Status — free space, link quality and a real speed test: download, upload, latency and jitter, with charts. • Dynamic Island and Lock Screen — fourteen live metrics, or a phrase of your own, in the colour you pick. • Control Center — your shortcuts one swipe away. • Track — your day on a map: where you stopped and for how long. Kept on your device for 90 days. • Passwords — a generator for strong passwords, ready to paste. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your calendars, reminders, steps, distance and mail are read on your device and shown on your widgets. Nothing is sent anywhere. Mail passwords live in the Keychain and never leave the phone. In English and Spanish. Made for iPhone.

About

Say In Bulbs

Transform your phone into a bright, scrolling LED message sign. Type or draw custom messages and symbols to be seen in crowded places. Share your creations as videos or pictures, or use pre-made signs for quick communication.

Highlights
  • Customizable scrolling LED signs
  • Draw custom symbols and shapes
  • Pre-made sign templates
  • Share signs as video or picture
  • Full-screen display
  • Works offline
  • Apple Watch app integration
Features
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Hold up your phone and be seen. Type a few words and the screen becomes a scrolling dot-matrix LED sign, bright enough to read across an arrivals hall, a dance floor or a warehouse aisle. No sign-up, no account, no menus to learn. Open it, type, hold it up. Or draw the sign yourself. Paint the panel bulb by bulb with a finger and hold up an arrow, a heart, a symbol or a shape no font has. Drawing is free. READY-MADE SIGNS Need a sign right now? Pick a drawing or a phrase and it is on the panel in one tap, from packs for every day, concerts, winter, Lunar New Year and Halloween. Change a few bulbs to make a drawing yours. Free. SHARE YOUR SIGN Turn your sign into a video, vertical or wide, or a picture, and send it or post it. Free. And when someone asks what app that is, tap the full-screen sign and show them the QR code. A REAL LED PANEL A fixed grid of round bulbs, lit ones glowing, unlit ones still faintly there, so it reads as a physical sign rather than as text on a screen. - Full-screen sign with nothing in the way, in either orientation - Turns smoothly with the phone, even when rotation lock is on - Screen brightness turned up and held there, then handed back when you leave - Stays awake for as long as you hold it up - Works offline, in a building with no signal MADE FOR - Airport and station pickups, when a name has to be spotted from a distance - Concerts and festivals, when shouting will not carry - Race finish lines, to find your runner and be found - Weddings, birthdays and Halloween parties - Warehouses, shop counters and car parks, where there is no sign and you need one ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app comes with it and works with or without your iPhone nearby. Pick a quick pick, a recent message or a saved sign, or dictate, scribble or type a new one, and it fills the watch face. Turn the Digital Crown to change the speed. The watch keeps its own signs. FREE, AND UNLIMITED The sign is free and it stays free. Unlimited signs, each running as long as you like, never interrupted, never nagged, never cut off. Amber on black, dot matrix, scrolling at whatever speed you choose. Drawing, the ready-made signs and sharing a video or picture are free, and so is saving one sign to come back to. SIB PRO One purchase, once. Not a subscription. Pro is control over how the sign looks: - Six LED colours instead of one - Four sign backgrounds: black, navy, maroon and white - Pixel, bar, marquee and solid-glow bulbs, plus a finer panel for sharper letters - Adjustable text size, from a whole-screen shout to a longer message - Static and bouncing signs, alongside scrolling - Flash, pulse and colour-cycle effects - Unlimited saved signs, drawn or typed Buy it once and it is yours, restorable on a new phone or after a reinstall. The same purchase unlocks Pro on your iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch, on the same Apple Account. EASY TO READ, SAFE TO LOOK AT Larger text sizes and VoiceOver are supported throughout. Nothing in the app flashes faster than 3 Hz, in either tier. Reduce Motion is honoured, and there is a separate Reduce Flashing control if you would rather not change a system setting. Flash safety is never something you have to pay for. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE UNLESS YOU SHARE IT No account. No server. No analytics. What you type and what you draw stay on the device: never uploaded, never logged, never sent anywhere. A video or picture of your sign goes only where you choose to share it. The only network the app ever touches is the App Store, for your Pro purchase and restore. A sign can be a name, a phone number, a medical note or a slogan, and none of that is anyone else's business.

Screenshots

DataFastView4 screens
Say In Bulbs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Say In Bulbs at weekly against DataFastView's every 3 weeks. Say In Bulbs also leads on device support (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. DataFastView sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Say In Bulbs sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DataFastView ships an update every 3 weeks, Say In Bulbs weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
DataFastView versus Say In Bulbs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDataFastViewSay In Bulbs
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoscoso Pacheco, Gonzalo JuvenalKamil Popczyk

In-app purchases

5 purchases

DataFastView

One-time5
  • Productivity Widgets$2.99
  • Weather and Time Widgets$3.99
  • Steps and Distance Widgets$3.99
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  • Status Portal Widgets$4.99
  • Mail Widgets$5.99
2 purchases

Say In Bulbs

One-time2
  • SIB Pro – 7-Day Free TrialFree
  • SIB Pro$3.99

Questions

Is DataFastView free?
DataFastView is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Say In Bulbs free?
Say In Bulbs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DataFastView or Say In Bulbs have ads?
Neither DataFastView nor Say In Bulbs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DataFastView or Say In Bulbs?
DataFastView ships an update every 3 weeks, and Say In Bulbs weekly. Most recently, DataFastView was updated on October 31, 2026 and Say In Bulbs on November 6, 2026.

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