Comparison

Mister Icon vs Widget Notes Home Lock Screen

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

Head to head
About

Mister Icon

Create custom decorative text labels and matching wallpapers to organize your home screen. Choose from pre-made designs or create your own with over 90 fonts and emoji support. Easily add order and personality to your device.

Highlights
  • Decorative text labels
  • Matching wallpapers
  • Custom icon creator
  • Over 90 fonts
  • Emoji support
  • Pre-prepared icon labels
  • Customizable color schemes
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Mister Icon provides decorative text labels and matching wallpapers, to help you create neat, tidy, beautiful, practical and fun home screen designs. Use the pre-prepared icon labels, or make your own with a fully customizable icon creator supporting more than 90 different fonts. You can even add emoji to your home screen! No ads, in-app purchases or subscriptions! Just a simple, one-off payment. -- USER REVIEWS -- "The perfect -one of a kind- app organizer!" "This is THE app to easily and neatly organize your screen." "I've been looking for something like this for years." -- THE BASICS -- If you have a lot of apps, it can often be difficult to find the one you are looking for, but Mister Icon's text-based label icons can help bring some order to your iPhone or iPad. Mister Icon does not provide any way to make 'folders', and does not do all the hard work for you, it simply provides the ability to add icon labels to your home screen, which you can then move in amongst your apps. For example, install a 'Games' icon to your home screen, then move all your favorite games nearby so that it's easier to find them the next time you swipe past. Or make your own custom icon designs with fun emojis to brighten up your home screen and make you feel happy. The icons are easy to install and there is no need to use the Shortcuts app, unless you want to make the icons perform special actions when you tap on them. The Mister Icon Tips & Tricks section includes detailed instructions on both installation methods, so you can choose whichever suits your needs best. -- THE ICONS -- There are more than 150 pre-prepared icon labels to choose from, with each icon available in 20 different styles, including several 'round' options. And now with the latest version 4 update, Mister Icon introduces a new custom icon creator that allows you to create icons with your own text and emoji, providing the ultimate freedom and creative control. Use any of the 45 built-in color schemes, or choose your own colors, then apply them to both icons and wallpapers. Mister Icon allows you to easily label the different screens on your iOS device, so you can effectively create a 'kids' page, a 'work' page, a 'news' page, or simply number each of your home screens from 1 to 15. The icons can be reorganized the same way as normal apps - simply tap and hold on any icon until it starts wobbling, then drag it into the desired location. Be creative and use Mister Icon's icons in whatever way works best for you! -- THE WALLPAPERS -- Included wallpapers are simple in design, but highly functional, and can be easily matched to your icon colors. Special 'hidden notch' and 'hidden island' wallpapers are available on relevant devices to allow you to blend in the 'notch' or 'island' at the top of your home screen, if you want to. -- THE DETAILS -- Please visit mistericon.com for more information, along with some sample icon arrangements that may provide useful inspiration for organizing your own home screens. If you're unsure about what this app does, please be sure to take a thorough look through my website before purchasing. The app's interface and pre-prepared icons are English-only, but the new custom icon creator supports 90+ fonts, including many with international language support. Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Latin and more, are all supported for custom icons. Mister Icon contains NO ads, NO in-app purchases and NO subscriptions. I hope you will find my app to be a useful and fun way to help tidy up your home screen. -- Mister Icon --

About

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen

Create and customize widgets for your home screen to display notes and photos. Personalize backgrounds, fonts, and set reminders with repeated notifications. Enjoy unlimited widgets and dark mode support.

Highlights
  • Unlimited home screen widgets
  • Photo and background color options
  • Customizable fonts
  • Notes sharing and sorting
  • Repeated notification reminders
  • Dark mode support
Features
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It's a notes & photos app compatible with iOS14 home screen widgets. All features are completely free to use. - Unlimited widgets on the home screen (all sizes supported) - Background settings: photo / background color (gradation) - Font settings: color / size / weight / position - Share / copy / sort notes - Reminders (with repeated notifications) - Dark mode - Free & no additional charge URL scheme: widgetnotes://

Screenshots

Mister Icon4 screens
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Widget Notes Home Lock Screen at Free against Mister Icon's $2.99. Widget Notes Home Lock Screen also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (109 vs 9). Mister Icon's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#99 vs unranked). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen is free to download; Mister Icon costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widget Notes Home Lock Screen has 109 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Mister Icon's written reviews are positive against 73% of Widget Notes Home Lock Screen's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mister Icon ships an update every 4 months, Widget Notes Home Lock Screen every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Mister Icon versus Widget Notes Home Lock Screen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMister IconWidget Notes Home Lock Screen
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.4 (9 ratings)4.7 (109 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better73.1% of reviews
Number of ratings9109 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#99 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael LeggFugaPiyo Inc.

Customer experience

Mister Icon

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen

All ratings109 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive73.1%
Neutral11.5%
Negative15.4%

In-app purchases

None

Mister Icon

No in-app purchases

None

Widget Notes Home Lock Screen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mister Icon free?
Mister Icon costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Widget Notes Home Lock Screen free?
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mister Icon or Widget Notes Home Lock Screen?
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen is rated higher. Mister Icon averages 3.4 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Widget Notes Home Lock Screen averages 4.7 from 109 ratings.
Do Mister Icon or Widget Notes Home Lock Screen have ads?
Widget Notes Home Lock Screen shows ads; Mister Icon does not.
Which is updated more often, Mister Icon or Widget Notes Home Lock Screen?
Mister Icon ships an update every 4 months, and Widget Notes Home Lock Screen every 2 months. Most recently, Mister Icon was updated on September 21, 2026 and Widget Notes Home Lock Screen on September 4, 2026.

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