Comparison

Sys Info Widget vs WindUp

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sys Info Widget

Access real-time device information directly from your notification center or smartwatch. Monitor disk storage, memory usage, and battery levels with clear visual charts and absolute values. Stay informed about your device's status at a glance.

Highlights
  • Notification center widget
  • Apple Watch app
  • Disk storage monitoring
  • Memory usage details
  • Battery level display
  • Bar chart visualization
  • Configurable watch glance
Features
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This App provides a Widget for the notification center which shows the current memory and file storage usage and the battery level. The lightweight widget lets you access this information fast and anytime. Information that is shown in the notification center: - Disk storage (total, used and free capacity) - Memory (total, wired, active, inactive, free memory) - battery level (current percentage) The information is provided as bar chart and in absolute values. Compact, fast and easy to read. The App for the Apple Watch lets you control the memory, battery and disk storage of your iPhone status directly from the watch, very fast and easy. The Watch App includes a "Glance" with one of the three status graphs, which one can be configured in the iPhone App. The Watch App itself can display all information, but you can also configure which of the information will be shown.

About

WindUp

This app provides tools to set, maintain, and learn about mechanical watches. It features an interactive museum to explore watch mechanisms and a digital collection to manage your timepieces. Widgets offer at-a-glance information for your home and lock screens.

Highlights
  • Set Assistant for atomic time synchronization
  • Beat Rate analysis via microphone
  • Chronograph with tachymeter
  • Power Reserve tracking
  • Interactive watch museum
  • Digital watch collection management
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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WindUp is the all-in-one app for mechanical watch lovers: precision tools to set and regulate your watch, a hands-on museum that teaches you how it works, and a beautiful vault for your collection. Set it. Learn it. Collect it. THE TOOLS • Set Assistant — set your watch against atomic time, to the second, and track how many seconds a day it really drifts • Beat Rate — hold your watch to the microphone and hear its beat, or compare two movements ear to ear • Chronograph — laps, splits, flyback, and the tachymeter explained with your own runs • Power Reserve — wind it on screen, track it per watch, know before it stops • Service — every service interval tracked, so nothing is ever overdue • Fitting Room — chalk-fit any case size to your own wrist before you buy THE MUSEUM Eighteen interactive rooms you walk into and touch — scrub a single beat of the escapement frame by frame, wind a mainspring in the engine room, seat all seventeen jewels of a movement, dive to the Mariana Trench to find your watch's depth limit, and more. Every complication, hands on. THE COLLECTION • An acquisition timeline of every piece you own, with photos, specs, and values • A ranked wishlist — promote a watch to the collection the day it arrives • Paste a product link and the form fills itself; one-tap photo background removal • Dashboard: your pieces, brands, what you paid, what it's worth today • Share it: publish your collection at windup.web.app with full control over what shows WIDGETS Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: an analog dial dressed to match your own watch, moon phase, power reserve, next service, and your collection at a glance. The tools and the museum run entirely on your device — no account, no tracking. The collection takes an optional free sign-in with Apple or Google. For people who wind their watch and mean it.

Screenshots

Sys Info Widget3 screens
WindUp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: WindUp at 5.0 against Sys Info Widget's 4.2. WindUp also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Sys Info Widget's advantage is ratings volume (37 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WindUp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sys Info Widget has 37 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Sys Info Widget's written reviews are positive against 100% of WindUp's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sys Info Widget ships an update every 2 months, WindUp every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sys Info Widget versus WindUp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSys Info WidgetWindUp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (37 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings37 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander ClaussSameer Bhutani

Customer experience

Sys Info Widget

All ratings37 ratings
Positive78.4%
Neutral5.4%
Negative16.2%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive59.6%
Neutral17.0%
Negative23.4%

WindUp

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sys Info Widget

No in-app purchases

None

WindUp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sys Info Widget free?
Sys Info Widget is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WindUp free?
WindUp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sys Info Widget or WindUp?
WindUp is rated higher. Sys Info Widget averages 4.2 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while WindUp averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Sys Info Widget or WindUp have ads?
Neither Sys Info Widget nor WindUp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sys Info Widget or WindUp?
Sys Info Widget ships an update every 2 months, and WindUp every 2 days. Most recently, Sys Info Widget was updated on October 17, 2026 and WindUp on October 9, 2026.

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