WidgeTunes vs Video Looper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WidgeTunes
Create custom music widgets for your home screen, displaying favorite playlists or albums. Personalize layouts, colors, and artwork for a unique music access experience. Supports multiple widgets and various sizes for extensive music library integration.
- Customizable music widgets
- Playlist and album integration
- Multiple widget profiles
- Widget layout editor
- Grid and list layouts
- Background color customization
- Grayscale artwork option
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Your favorite albums and playlists, right on your Home Screen. Tap a cover and your music starts playing. No app to open, no searching. WidgeTunes 3 is rebuilt from the ground up, with a brand-new way to flip through your music. NEW: COVER FLOW Flip through your albums right from the widget. Tap the sides to browse, tap the cover in the middle to play. SMART MIX Pick an artist or a genre and WidgeTunes fills your widget with random albums, reshuffled on a schedule you choose. There is always something new to play. A WIDGET FOR EVERY MOOD Build as many widgets as you like: Morning Mix, Workout, Late Night. Add playlists, albums or songs to each one and place them anywhere on your Home Screen, in small, medium and large sizes. MAKE IT YOURS • Grid, list or Cover Flow layouts • Round or square covers, or names only • Your own photo for any album, playlist or song • Custom background colors • Black and white artwork • Spacing, padding and rounded corners • A live preview that shows every change as you make it ONE TAP. MUSIC PLAYS. Your widgets play straight from your Music library. Turn on Shuffle in Settings to mix things up. ADD FROM ANYWHERE Browse your playlists and albums in the redesigned Music tab, and long press any of them to add it to a widget. WIDGETUNES PRO Unlimited widgets, Smart Mix, Cover Flow and the full appearance editor are part of WidgeTunes Pro, available as a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. If you bought WidgeTunes before subscriptions were introduced, your features are included. If they don't show up, tap Restore Purchases. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.gtrigonakis.com/privacy-policy
Video Looper
This app allows users to loop specific sections of videos for practice or analysis. It offers zoom capabilities to inspect details, bookmarking for important content, and fast-forward/rewind options. Users can also export looped sections as video files or GIFs.
- AB repeat looping
- Video playback speed control
- Pinch-to-zoom functionality
- Bookmark important moments
- Fast forward/rewind by double-tap
- Export loops as video or GIF
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LOOP: Learn a new guitar lick to a song, watching your favorite musician. Practice makes perfection where you can loop the song to play with the musician. ZOOM: He shoots, he scores but the referee calls goalie interference. Zoom in, review the play and be the judge. Was the ref right or the fan? Pinch to zoom in and move the video around the screen to inspect the scene. BOOKMARK: Watching an educational video with no time to take notes? With Super Looper, you can add bookmarks and save the most important content. When using headphones press pause on remote to add the bookmark. SEEK: Skip the boring scenes in the video and cut to the chase. Double-tap to skip from 5 seconds to 5 minutes! The more you tap, the longer you skip. AB REPEAT: The movie is too long? Loop the most interesting part - select start & endpoints with A and B buttons. Cancel loop with X EXPORT: Save your loop as a video file (MOV) GIF: Export your loop as an animated GIF! Super Looper is an awesome tool for home learning! Play language courses, video tutorials or cooking classes and master your skills. Use it for sport's analysis looping a short part of the video and zooming on athlete movements. Zoom and AB Repeat your favorite music videos from and learn popular dance choreography. Practice with the best and learn by repetition with Looper Video Player! By default, the AB Loop is set at the start & end of the video. You can change it with markers on the timeline or AB Repeat panel. Select start & endpoints with A and B buttons and cancel with X. Please note: It's not always possible to play a loop exactly from the selected start point, it depends on the video codecs. Loop Button turns on / off the repetitions. Select the number of reps in settings. For long videos use ( + ) button to enlarge the video timeline. Double Tap right to Fast Forward or left to Rewind. With every double-click skip time increases, up to 5 minutes. When watching the movie pinch the screen to zoom the view. You can drag the video around the screen to inspect interesting parts. Close-up on your favorite actor, dance moves or other curious details. Pinch the screen again to reset zoom. To export the loop press the "Info" and "Export" button and select your export format. The video control knob has to be „inside“ the loop. For very short loops pause the video before exporting. --------- Watch videos from your apps folders (Photos, Podcasts, and TV). Keep your search history to access content easily. When watching local movies you can adjust the playback speed. Access your local videos from the application on the fly. No need to fiddle around with accessing content. Simple with loop, zoom, and swipe at your fingertips. If you have any ideas about this app, please let me know @ boramaapps@gmail.com Terms of services: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: WidgeTunes at 62% against Video Looper's 22%. WidgeTunes also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Video Looper's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. WidgeTunes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Video Looper sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
WidgeTunes holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of WidgeTunes's written reviews are positive against 22% of Video Looper's.
WidgeTunes ships an update every 2 weeks, Video Looper monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WidgeTunes | Video Looper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (68 ratings) — better | 4.0 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.0% of reviews — better | 22.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Georgios Trigonakis | michal bojanowicz |
Customer experience
WidgeTunes
Video Looper
Bugs and requests
WidgeTunes
Reported bugs
14 issues- Shuffle not working
- Large widgets show blank
- App lost audio controls in v2.0
- Usage is difficult to understand
- App seems broken, "unable to load"
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- Widget shows up then goes blank
- "Unable to load" messages
- App crashes when scrolling to show more
- Widget constantly blinks on and off
- App doesn't work after Apple Music update (8.4)
- Doesn't appear in notification center
- Freezes or crashes
- Large widgets are blank
- Shuffle doesn't work correctly
Requested features
14 requests- Sync widgets via cloud
- Add photo backgrounds for widgets
- Transparent background option for widgets
- Favorite artists option
- Manual and artist search function
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- Option to play playlist on shuffle from widget
- Favorite a single song
- List all albums in one go
- Support for Spotify streaming
- Option to view local music only
- iPad support
- Show all favorites button
- Add 'songs' as a selection option
- Add shuffle function
Video Looper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WidgeTunes
- Full Access$0.991 Month
- Full Access7 Days trial$5.991 Year
- WidgeTunes Pro$12.99
Video Looper
- Weekly$4.997 Days
- Monthly$5.991 Month
- Yearly$29.991 Year





