Decision Widget vs Recents
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Decision Widget
Customize your device's Home screen and Today view with custom widgets for random decision-making. Create multiple decision wheels with customizable choices, colors, and sounds for fun or practical use.
- Customizable Home screen and Today view widgets
- Multiple decision wheels per widget
- Randomly select items from customizable choices
- Support for emoji smileys as choices
- Adjustable font, size, and tick sounds
- iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets compatible
- Dark mode support
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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 Decision widget allows to view 1 to 6 different decision wheels on the same row. Each decision wheel can help you to take a decision and can randomly choose one item among several choices. A nice short animation will add some suspense to the random choice. Here are some usage ideas : * A simple YES/NO decision. * Selection of a person in a team. * Get a random action that a friend will have to do. * Get a random color. * Handling a particular situation (you can use Emoji smileys as the different choices) * Get a random dice value. Each choice can have its own text and colors. Up to 30 different choices can be defined, and every choice can be duplicated up to 10 times in the same decision wheel. A title can be associated. Various parameters can be changed (like the font name and size, the tick sound). 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).
Recents
This utility app organizes your contacts based on the most recent entry. It offers a straightforward way to view and manage your address book without any unnecessary features.
- Sorts contacts by recent entry
- Simple contact management
- Clean interface
- No extra features
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Just your contacts sorted by the most recent entry, nothing fancy!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Decision Widget at every 8 months against Recents's every 33 months. Decision Widget also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 58%). Recents's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (20 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Decision Widget costs $0.99 and Recents $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Recents holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recents has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Decision Widget's written reviews are positive against 58% of Recents's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Decision Widget ships an update every 8 months, Recents every 33 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Decision Widget | Recents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.2 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 58.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 33 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francis Bonnin | Brian Donohue |
Customer experience
Decision Widget
Recents
In-app purchases
Decision Widget
No in-app purchases
Recents
No in-app purchases
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