Launcher with Multiple Widgets vs Flex Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Launcher with Multiple Widgets
This app allows extensive customization of your iPhone and iPad home and lock screens with powerful widgets. Access contacts, websites, apps, and perform actions with a single tap. Premium features offer dynamic icon changes, advanced organization, and unlimited widget creation.
- Customizable home and lock screen widgets
- One-tap app launching
- Contact shortcuts (call, message, email)
- Website and location shortcuts
- Shortcut app integration
- Dynamic widget icons (premium)
- Folders for organization (premium)
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Launcher is the original app launching widget -- and still the best! Launcher puts your favorite apps, people, and actions one tap away: on your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, and on your Apple Watch. Top 10 Productivity App in over 80 countries and counting! Over 5 million downloads! "It belongs on everyone's iDevice for one-swipe access to favorites" - AppAdvice.com "One of the most flexible widgets out there." - Gizmodo.com "It will speed up your iOS usage in a real way." - Tidbits.com "One of the best time-saving apps out there." - BusinessInsider.com NEW: QUICK WIDGET (iOS 27) Launch any app or shortcut on your device straight from the widget, with no detour through the Launcher app. Choose your shortcuts, pick an icon size, and go. LIVE ACTIVITIES WIDGETS ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND DYNAMIC ISLAND Put launchers where you see them most. Launcher can keep your Live Activities widget running 24/7 by automatically restarting it throughout the day, so it's always there when you pick up your phone. With just a tap on a Launcher widget you can: - Call, message, email, and FaceTime the people you contact the most. - Get directions to specific locations or search for nearby businesses. - Quickly access your favorite websites. - Run Shortcuts, fire off a canned email or message, and perform actions inside your favorite apps. - Start playing your favorite music immediately with music launchers. - Launch any app on your device. WIDGETS FOR EVERY SCREEN - Home Screen widgets in small, medium, large, extra large portrait, and extra large (iPad) sizes. - Lock Screen widgets, both circular and rectangular. - Live Activities widgets for the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. - Quick Widget for direct launching of apps and shortcuts on iOS 27. - Apple Watch: initiate calls, messages, map directions, and music from your wrist. - Designed for the new look of iOS 26 and iOS 27, with icons that adapt to tinted, clear, and dark Home Screens. Unlock these features with Launcher Premium: - Change widget icons automatically based on day, time or location! Set up specific widget views for morning, weekends, home, work, gym, etc. and always have relevant launchers just a swipe away. - Change icon sizes from tiny to huge and fit dozens of launchers in a single widget. - Remove icon labels for a cleaner look. - Folders. Save space and keep your launchers more organized by grouping them into folders. - Stack widgets for better space utilization. - Backup and restore your launchers with iCloud. - Unlimited number of widgets! FREE FEATURES: - Customize your icons and backgrounds with colors or images. - Import wallpaper to create simulated transparent widget backgrounds. Optionally add a transparent color overlay. - Shortcut Launchers bring even more power to Launcher. Utilize the power of the Shortcuts app easily without the complexity. - Launch every app on your device. No more limits. - Settings shortcut launchers have the ability to launch to most screens in the Settings app. - One tap launchers for turning Wifi, Bluetooth, Low Power Mode, DND, Cellular Data, and Airplane Mode on and off. - Option to open Web Launchers in different web browsers. - Launcher triggers: Get a notification to launch an app at set times or locations. - Ability to create custom launchers for apps and actions that aren't yet supported. - Great accessibility for the sight-impaired. - Available in 12 languages. Please support further development on the app by unlocking Launcher Premium today. Thanks! Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your Apple account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.cromulentlabs.com/launcher/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Flex Widgets
Create custom widgets for your device's home screen with a powerful and intuitive editor. Add text, images, health data, clocks, and more, then customize their appearance and arrangement.
- Build custom widgets
- Add text, images, and health data
- Place icons, emojis, and shapes
- Create countdowns and calendars
- Design digital and analog clocks
- Share and import widget designs
- Create custom widget themes
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Build your own widgets with the first real widget editor, edit your widgets the way you want. We bring you a super intuitive, powerful widget editor. The all in one widget app. You can place: - texts, icons, emojis, shapes - images, image slideshows - health data like heart rate or steps count (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app) - drawings, buttons, shortcuts buttons - weather icons, weather text elements - date elements, countdowns, countdown visuals, calendars, week overviews - digital time elements, analog clocks - border outlines - and more elements in your widgets. (If you want your health data like heart rate, steps count, exercise time to be displayed inside of your widgets you need to grant the Flex Widgets access to your Health app.) With our widget editor you simply place elements on your widget, edit, move, resize and rotate them. Those elements can be placed on top of each other and you can edit them however you want. Everything is fully comstomisable. Change the text font, color your widgets, add outlines and place as many of the mentioned elements as you want. Share widgets The cool thing is: you don’t even need to be creative to enjoy our widget editor. You can use the widgets others have created or pick out of the widget gallery inside of Flex Widgets. Sharing widgets is super simple. Just press share and send your widget link to your friends! Widget Themes You can also give all your widgets the same look by creating widget themes. So every widget can have the same font, background color, outline border, etc. Here are some more cool features: - Add a drawing element to your widget and turn it into a sticky note. Tapping on it on your homescreen will let you draw on it! - Add buttons to your widgets to open websites or run shortcuts. - Add picture slideshows and have the pictures change every minute. - Health charts: display your heart rate, activity, walk distance and many more health data points in our fully customisable health charts to see how your body is doing. (Flex Widgets gets this data from your Health app)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Launcher with Multiple Widgets at Free against Flex Widgets's $2.99. Launcher with Multiple Widgets also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (73% vs 39%). Flex Widgets's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 15) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months). On 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
Launcher with Multiple Widgets is free to download; Flex Widgets costs $2.99 up front. Launcher with Multiple Widgets sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per year. Flex Widgets asks for nothing beyond the download.
Launcher with Multiple Widgets holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Launcher with Multiple Widgets has 3.4K ratings behind it against 98, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Launcher with Multiple Widgets's written reviews are positive against 39% of Flex Widgets's.
Launcher with Multiple Widgets ships an update every 2 months, Flex Widgets every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Launcher with Multiple Widgets | Flex Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (3.4K ratings) — better | 3.7 (98 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.6% of reviews — better | 38.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.4K — better | 98 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cromulent Labs | Yannik Schrade |
Customer experience
Launcher with Multiple Widgets
Flex Widgets
In-app purchases
Launcher with Multiple Widgets
- Launcher Premium Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Launcher Premium Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Buy Greg a Song$0.99
- Pro Version$1.99
- Unlock Multiple Widgets$1.99
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- Pro Version4 variants$2.99
- Unlock Multiple Widgets$3.99
- Premium Version Discounted$4.99
- Buy Greg a Beer$4.99
- Buy Greg Lunch$9.99
- Premium Version$14.99
- Launcher Premium Onetime$19.99
Flex Widgets
No in-app purchases
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