WidgeTunes vs QuickPod
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
QuickPod
Create and customize music widgets for your home and lock screens. Deep integration with Apple Music and Spotify allows for easy access to your favorite tracks, albums, and playlists. Share your personalized widgets with friends and family.
- Customizable music widgets
- Home Screen and Lock Screen integration
- Apple Music and Spotify support
- Playlist and album widgets
- Widget sharing
- Advanced customization options (Pro)
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Create widgets for your favorite music and add them anywhere with QuickPod! Personalize your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Control Center, and more with your favorite albums, artists, playlists, and stations. With deep integration for Apple Music and Spotify, QuickPod helps you discover your next favorite song, album, or playlist - always just a tap away. Built-in sharing makes it easy to share your widgets with anyone - customize and send them to friends, family, and more. Upgrade to QuickPod Pro for powerful customization options: - Create unlimited widgets. - Add custom images, custom text, and symbols to make your widgets truly unique. - Purchase once and access QuickPod Pro on all supported devices. *Now Playing, For You, and Discover views are currently only available with Apple Music.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: WidgeTunes at every 2 weeks against QuickPod's every 3 months. WidgeTunes also leads on ratings volume (68 vs 18). QuickPod's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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 QuickPod sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
QuickPod holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of WidgeTunes's written reviews are positive against 67% of QuickPod's.
WidgeTunes ships an update every 2 weeks, QuickPod every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WidgeTunes | QuickPod |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (68 ratings) | 4.7 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Georgios Trigonakis | Vedant Malhotra |
Customer experience
WidgeTunes
QuickPod
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
QuickPod
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
QuickPod
- Tip Level 1$0.99
- Tip Level 2$1.99
- QuickPod Pro Level 1$1.99
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- Tip Level 3$2.99
- QuickPod Pro Level 2$2.99
- Tip Level 4$3.99
- QuickPod Pro Level 3$3.99
- Tip Level 5$4.99







