Decision Widget vs Compress Files with Zipped
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).
Compress Files with Zipped
This utility app allows users to easily manage ZIP files on their iOS devices. It supports creating and extracting ZIP archives, including password-protected ones, and offers advanced drag-and-drop functionality for iPads. Users can also share or save unzipped files and customize archiving settings.
- Create and extract ZIP files
- Password protection for archives
- Drag & Drop support on iPad
- Share and save files
- Customizable archiving settings
- Open files from anywhere in iOS
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Zipped solves all of your ZIP file needs on iOS. Whether you need to unzip a file from Safari, or create a ZIP on iOS, Zipped has you covered. Zipped Includes: • Advanced support for Drag & Drop on iPad — Drop a ZIP file to UNZIP, or Drag in any number of files to create a ZIP. • Ability to Share your ZIP file or UNZIPPED files, or SAVE them to Files. • Customizable Settings — Choose whether you would like to manually name ZIP files, or have Zipped automatically generate a name for you! Decide if you would like to unzip your ZIP file into a folder, or output simply the files themselves! • Unarchive a ZIP into a file browser, preview your files, and selectively share or save them. • Unarchive or Archive ZIP encrypted with a password. • Open ZIP files from anywhere in iOS in Zipped through the 'Open In' sheet. Zipped currently supports the following file types, with more to come: .zip, .png, .jpg, .html, .pages, .docx, .pdf, .numbers, .xlsx, .pptx, .rtf, .txt, .mp4, .mov, .aiff, .mp3, .wav, .psd, .caf, .md, .csv, .json, .js, md, .csv, .json, .gif, .heic, .band, .xml, .ttf, .otf In addition to the above following types, you can also ZIP folders!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Decision Widget at 67% against Compress Files with Zipped's 23%. Compress Files with Zipped's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (465 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Decision Widget costs $0.99 and Compress Files with Zipped $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Compress Files with Zipped holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Compress Files with Zipped has 465 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 23% of Compress Files with Zipped'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, Compress Files with Zipped every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Decision Widget | Compress Files with Zipped |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (465 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 23.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 465 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francis Bonnin | Historycentral.com |
Customer experience
Decision Widget
Compress Files with Zipped
Bugs and requests
Decision Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Compress Files with Zipped
Reported bugs
5 issues- Zipped file size is same as original
- Unable to select or access files from device
- Doesn't work with encrypted/password-protected archives
- Doesn't work with certain file types like PowerPoint, PDFs
- Inconsistent behavior, sometimes works, sometimes doesn't
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for RAR and other archive formats
- Allow zero compression or normal compression
- Provide progress bar and cancel option
- Enable access to local device storage, not just cloud
- Improve integration with Photos app
In-app purchases
Decision Widget
No in-app purchases
Compress Files with Zipped
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Decision Widget free?
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