WidgetBlocks vs Dialshade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WidgetBlocks
Create personalized widgets for your device with a wide range of customizable components. Design unique layouts, recolor elements, and resize them to perfectly match your style. Explore various supported components like time, photos, calendar events, and more.
- Create custom widgets
- Recolor and resize components
- Add time, date, and photos
- Integrate calendar events and reminders
- Include notes and countdowns
- App launcher and music widgets
- Weather and health data integration
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With WidgetBlocks, you can make your own widgets! And not just in a preset matter, ACTUALLY make your own widgets with the ability to move, recolor, resize, and make your widgets, YOUR widgets! Supported components: Time Date Photo Calendar events Reminders Shape Drawing Note Countdown/up Links Weather* Music Battery Health App Launcher ...and more coming soon! Try WidgetBlocks today! - Noah :) Follow @nonosthings on Instagram and @noahsthings on Facebook for updates! *The weather block uses the WeatherKit and weather.gov API. Free users get 25 WeatherKit API calls a month and 75 API calls a month for paid users with WidgetBlocks Purple, an optional auto-renewing subscription, which also adds unlimited Dynamic Logic rules, custom accent colors, and alternate app icons. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Dialshade
Customize your iPhone or iPad's home screen with over 150 unique analog, digital, and hybrid clock designs. Personalize accent colors, materials, and display options to create a look that reflects your style. Start with free designs and unlock the full catalog with a subscription or one-time purchase.
- 150+ analog, digital, and hybrid clock designs
- Customizable accent colors and materials
- Small and Medium widget sizes
- Save and manage custom looks
- In-app guide for easy setup
- Free starter designs
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Your time. Your look. Make the clock on your iPhone or iPad a design statement. Dialshade brings together over 350 analog, digital and hybrid clock designs, from liquid chrome and dark metal to painterly textures, sculptural shapes and typographic statements. MADE FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN • Small and Medium widgets for different layouts. • Collections including Chrome, Statements, Paint, Sculptural, Iced and Noir. • Depending on the design, adjust accent colors, material brightness, date, seconds and 12/24-hour time. • Keep your favorites and save your own named looks. • Give each widget a different saved look. • Open an individual clock inside the app. EASY TO SET UP Choose a design, customize it and save your look. Add a Dialshade widget to your Home Screen, then select your saved look. An in-app guide walks you through the steps. START FOR FREE Five designs are free to use. Dialshade Pro unlocks the complete catalog through a monthly or annual subscription, or a one-time purchase. Prices and any available trial offers are shown before purchase. No separate account required. Your favorites and saved looks stay locally on your device. No ads in the app. PLEASE NOTE Available options vary by design. iOS and iPadOS manage widget updates and system appearance; seconds displays may be limited by system and power-saving settings. Requires an iPhone running iOS 18 or later, or an iPad running iPadOS 18 or later. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. A one-time purchase does not automatically cancel an existing subscription. Privacy: https://dialshade.com/en/privacy/ Terms of Use (Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://dialshade.com/en/support/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: WidgetBlocks at every 3 days against Dialshade's every 2 weeks. WidgetBlocks also leads on device support (5 vs 2). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. WidgetBlocks sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Dialshade sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for WidgetBlocks against 5.0 for Dialshade. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
WidgetBlocks ships an update every 3 days, Dialshade every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WidgetBlocks | Dialshade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 272 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noah Novak | Valentin Spoeth |
Customer experience
WidgetBlocks
Dialshade
In-app purchases
WidgetBlocks
- WB Purple (monthly)$3.991 Month
- WB Purple (yearly)$39.991 Year
- Extra Small Tip$0.49
- Small Tip$1.00
- Medium Tip$5.00
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- Large Tip$10.00
- Extra Large Tip$25.00
Dialshade
- Dialshade Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Dialshade Pro Annual$12.991 Year
- Dialshade Pro Lifetime$29.99





