Comparison

RSS Widget vs Wdgts 2

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

Head to head
About

RSS Widget

Customize your device's Home screen and Today view with custom widgets. Display RSS feeds in a visually appealing and configurable manner, with options for refresh frequency, content layout, and article filtering. Easily access your information and actions from anywhere.

Highlights
  • Customizable Home Screen widgets
  • Today View widgets
  • RSS feed display
  • Configurable refresh frequency
  • Multiple content display options
  • Article filtering
  • Dark mode support
Features
Currently charting
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Thanks to this application (and the other Widget apps from PacoLabs), you can now customize the Home screen and the Today view of your device, by adding custom widgets for some specific purposes. From anywhere in your device, you'll have access to your own information and actions. Each RSS widget allows you to view any RSS feed in a pleasant and highly customizable way. The refresh frequency can be chosen (from every 5 minutes to every day). You can choose to display the content as a beautiful image with an overlayed text, or as an article with an icon, and the associated text. Articles without an image can be filtered. You can define the number of articles to display in a single widget (from 1 to 6). If necessary, you can also choose the first article to be displayed. Decide to hide or show the image, title, abstract, content and author. Different visual parameters can be changed (such as font name, font size and the different colors). Those Widgets are compatible with the new iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets. The application is really easy to use and is adapted to the fresh look of your device. Dark mode of iOS13 is supported. In Today view: You can add as many widgets as you want and they will be displayed in up to 3 different lists. Those same lists will be available in the Today view and in the application (although it is possible, if you want, to hide some widgets in the Today view). To avoid overloading the Today view, when too many widgets are displayed, an intuitive control will allow you to navigate from one widget to another. Even if the main purpose of the app is to view the widgets in the Today view, it can also be very handy to view them directly in the application (a long press on a widget in the Today view will open it directly in the main application).

About

Wdgts 2

Enhance your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with a suite of useful widgets. Access quick calculations, currency conversions, notes, and more directly from your home or lock screen, with premium features available via subscription.

Highlights
  • Home screen widgets
  • Lock screen widgets
  • Desktop widgets for Mac
  • Calculator and converter
  • Note-taking and link saving
  • Customizable clocks for time zones
  • Auto-history for notes and calculations
Features
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A collection of incredibly useful widgets for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Built from ground up with SwiftUI. Both iOS and macOS apps are fully native and seamlessly integrated with each other. ________________________________________ Wdgts 2 comes with the following free forever widgets: - Calculator: Perform quick calculations right from your homescreen. - Converter: Supports major cypto and fiat currencies. Updated every 2 hours. Premium Widgets require an active subscription. These include: - Clips: Quickly save links, text or image and access them later with full search. - On This Day: Relive Your Memories - On This Day widget shows you photos taken today over the years. - ScratchPad: Jot down things right from your homescreen. Syncs across all your devices. Comes with Time Machine-esque auto-history feature. - Zones: Glanceable clocks to keep track of your friends in different time zones. - Music (macOS only): Shows you the currently playing song from Music.app. ________________________________________ Special features: - Desktop Widgets (macOS): Always visible, glanceable widgets just like on iOS, now on your Mac. Wdgts is the first ever app to focus primarily on desktop widgets. - Lock Screen Widgets (iOS): Quick, glanceable widgets keeps the info you need always at reach right from your lock screen. - Smart Glance: Desktop widgets stay out of the way until you need them. Mouse over brings it to front, mouse out restores focus to previous window. - Auto-history Maintains an automatic history of all calculations made in calculator or converter and notes in the scratchpad widget. - Haptics, Sounds & Animations Wdgts 2 is a highly polished app with focus on providing a great user experience. Every major action has haptics, sounds and animates according to touch. --- Terms of Use: https://wdgts.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://wdgts.co/privacy Support: For support and feature suggestions please reach out to us by email at support@wdgts.co or tweet us @wdgtsapp.

Screenshots

RSS Widget4 screens
Wdgts 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: RSS Widget at 83% against Wdgts 2's 24%. RSS Widget also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Wdgts 2's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On ratings volume, ads 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

Wdgts 2 is free to download; RSS Widget costs $0.99 up front. Wdgts 2 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per year. RSS Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

RSS Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of RSS Widget's written reviews are positive against 24% of Wdgts 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RSS Widget ships an update every 3 months, Wdgts 2 every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
RSS Widget versus Wdgts 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRSS WidgetWdgts 2
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better2.6 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better24.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
Best chart rank#200 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB28 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFrancis BonninTanmay Sonawane

Customer experience

RSS Widget

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Wdgts 2

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive24.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative60.0%

In-app purchases

None

RSS Widget

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Wdgts 2

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is RSS Widget free?
RSS Widget costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wdgts 2 free?
Wdgts 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RSS Widget or Wdgts 2?
RSS Widget is rated higher. RSS Widget averages 4.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Wdgts 2 averages 2.6 from 5 ratings.
Do RSS Widget or Wdgts 2 have ads?
Neither RSS Widget nor Wdgts 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RSS Widget or Wdgts 2?
RSS Widget ships an update every 3 months, and Wdgts 2 every 10 months. Most recently, RSS Widget was updated on September 10, 2026 and Wdgts 2 on September 19, 2026.

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