Widgetsmith Reviews

by Ihc.08

I just got Widgetsmith when I updated my phone to ios14 and I love to use Widgetsmith to make my phone more unique! However, after a day or two of having set widgets on my homescreen, the widgets start to glitch. For example the "date" widget wont change the date for the next day and same with the "temperature" widget. Also, around the same time the other widgets start acting up, the widget that I use to showcase a picture/album gets blurry and also will not change. When I attempt to solve this issue the whole widget will glitch all together and will either show a grey or black screen and I have learned one of the only ways to solve this issue is by deleting all of my widgets + Widgetsmith and redownloading to start fresh. Also this is a solution, it is very frustrating and annoying to have to completely restart my whole homescreen. I absolutely love Widgetsmith and I feel that with a few updates and bug fixes, it will be even better than what it is now.

by HXJ45

So my friend uses this and says it’s good so that’s why I gave you some stars I personally haven’t used this because of what I will tell you. So the thing is I want this specific picture right but when I try to make it it only gives me a certain selection like favorites recents etc. but the problem is when I click it, it inserts a random photo from that category and that’s not what I want I want specific photos. I tried to go to the help settings but the videos are out dated the set up of Widgetsmith it had is not the set up it is now and basically what I got from one of the videos is you can’t chose the picture it randomly choses for you. I want control over my pictures I mean the whole point is to be able to customize your widgets right? Also when I looked in the help section I found something that could help but these help instructions are outdated the set up isn’t the same I tried to follow the instructions but it said after going to default one scroll down to custom section but I scrolled there’s no custom section anymore. So If this is an option and I just don’t know or either you could make it an option that would be great! And if you could update the help instructions and videos that would also be great because if it is an option I would like to select certain photos and the instructions now can’t help because there outdated and it’s not well helping. So if you can help out here thank you!!

by DrFog

Overall, Widgetsmith is good. I think it does its job well enough, but it’s very simple. I like the customizable nature of Widgetsmith , my home screen looks a lot better since downloading it.
The only technical issue I have encountered is that my large widget for my reminders seems to glitch at random points and not list any of my scheduled items. This is not a constant issue, but it does happen every once in a while, as well as taking a while to update once I add a new reminder.
The only other complaints I have are a matter of further improving aesthetic and perhaps some future ideas, none of which are deal-breakers for me, but would improve my experience with Widgetsmith . I don’t particularly like the battery widget as it shows only the battery and not the percentage, which seems almost useless to me, as I have the same symbol showing in the upper right corner of my screen at all times. I also wish that the widgets did not say this app underneath them (similar to how the name of an app shows under its icon), I would prefer they have no title/caption. My third wish is that the widgets could have customizable shortcuts, so that when I select them, I am taken to Widgetsmith that corresponds to the widget, rather than simply opening the this app app.
Nonetheless, I recommend Widgetsmith. It makes me happy to see my home screen much more organized and customized to my aesthetic. I much preferred Widgetsmith to others similar to it.

by Lps4563

This would have been a five star review, but minus one star for the clock’s hand that don’t move, on the medium clock with calendar widget, after the 2.7 update. Then, minus one more star for receiving an auto response from support when I sent them an email about it. I realize that it can be a daunting task to personally respond to every single person that sends an email to a developer, but how is one to know that they even looked at the bug report. It wouldn’t appear so, as they have come out with a patch since, and the issue remains. What good is a clock that doesn't keep time, well….it’s right twice a day. So, wondering if they at least read their reviews, and will look into fixing the widget that has had it’s home as the only thing on the first page of my Home Screen for a year, and I have had to move it to the last page until it works again. It’s the top of a Smart Stack so don’t want to get rid of it altogether, and don’t care for any or the others in it’s place.

by The New Update Suckss

It’s a good app. I absolutely love Widgetsmith. I’ve had it ever since the ios14 came out. I have one small little problem with this though. This morning all the widgets on my phone were perfectly fine and they’ve been showing up on my Home Screen, but later today they turned gray with lines over it and I tried to fix it and tried to make the widget picture I put in show up, but it just didn’t. I didn’t erase Widgetsmith or the widgets because maybe I thought it was just a small glitch, so I just powered on and off my phone and tried again, but apparently the widgets of my choice of photo still didn’t show which made me very upset because without those widgets my Home Screen just doesn’t make sense and the day I rearranged my whole entire Home Screen it took me 4 hours. I googled my problem and it didn’t show anything of what I was going through, but I just wanted to let you guys know that. I also still as of right now, have those widgets up, but it’s just gray with gray lines over it and maybe I’m thinking it’s an iOS issue or something, but it’s been like this for a few hours now.

by Bridget🦋

Overall this is a very nice app. There are a lot of good things about it, however there are a few minor problems. First off, I want to use a small widget for my school assignments (I usually use the reminders app for them) in the preview all of the text fits and looks very nice, but when I put it on my home screen it only displays 3 out of the 4 assignments that I have, but the 4th one is cut out. I wish that the version on the home screen looks the same as the preview. The battery widget also doesn’t have the battery percentage, which in my opinion kind of defeats the purpose of the widget in the first place. Sometimes there is a glitch when they are grey, but it goes away after a while. Sometimes when I put pictures there is a thin white line on the right side, so it looks strange. Overall, I like Widgetsmith, but like most things there are a few small issues.

by Kyle JC

First, I know it’s important to have your name out there but it kinda destroys the aesthetic to not be able to remove the text under each widget. Second, I wanted to have a little zig zag pattern with apps with the background still flush, however, it does not offer a transparent widget and that would be very nice for a unique arrangement of apps like I had in mind. Instead I had to crop and edit my background to different places so it appeared transparent, but even then switching pages made it look a lot less clean and smooth. Third, I have a calendar widget that shows what I have for events and it’s awesome. However, clicking on it leads me to this app instead of more calendar functions. I understand you want more exposure but it’s less user oriented that way. I’m not sure if that’s something you can fix but it would be a fantastic addition. Overall, I think it’s great for a pretty new app and update, but there’s always room for improvement so keep working hard!! Thank you!

by CandyGalaxy

So I downloaded Widgetsmith yesterday and I was super excited! There was just one flaw to it (more like 2 flaws...). Every time I go to “choose photo”, it lags like crazy!!! And sometimes it will freeze and I’m scared that it will log me out of Widgetsmith (but it never does). And the other thing is that, when I was ready to add the widget to my Home Screen, the Widgets were completely blank and grey! It was kinda disappointing because my friend has this and even showed me how it looked and it looked amazing, but when I tried it, nothing happened. Even when I would add it to the Home Screen, there was still nothing on it. Please fix this problem. I’m really looking forward to adding these widgets to my phone but I’m scared that it will still be blank when I try again. But other than what I just explained, it’s a great app! I fully recommend it. Please fix these problems app developer! (Can you pleased also fix the lag?)

by POtO!ln2?

I like Widgetsmith a lot, I like that my screen looks nice and color-coordinated. What would help me a lot is if I didn’t have to make an album with one photo to get my photo widgets to work. I know a lot of people are having the same problem, it’s not a huge deal right now but it’s definitely a hassle and takes a bit of time.
This is a little more picky but I think a lot of people would agree that a custom color option would be AMAZING. Some of the colors just don’t work with what I wanted on my screen, I had to adjust colors to the this app colors and it took a very long time. The pinks are a little too salmon-y colored, and the pastel purple looks a little more blue than purple. I don’t know about the other colors since my goal for my Home Screen was pastel pinks, purples, and blues, but I wish I didn’t have to adjust to the this app colors.
I would also love if I can change the colors of some weather widgets instead of having those bright orange colors.

by Becs2270

i know iOS 14 and Widgetsmith is very new still, so i dont think its that bad as a new app. it could use some fixes though. first of all, you’re not able to pick your own photo for the photo option (you can only pick an album, and it picks a random photo from the album) i dont really like this feature since i had to make a bunch of albums for different photos i wanted. so if its possible, having an option to pick your own photo would be a great addition to Widgetsmith . second of all, the widgets sometimes dont work. i got Widgetsmith yesterday, and they were working perfectly fine at first. but now the widgets dont seem to show up? i put a widget on the home screen, but then it just shows up gray with nothing on it, and its been going on for the past few hours. this might just be a temporary glitch, but i would also suggest looking into that. overall, its a great app. im excited for whats to come and what new features could be added.

by Valeria..1717

It seems like people mostly download Widgetsmith for customizable pictures in their widgets. But sometimes it will turn grey. Also, as soon as I got the new update for Widgetsmith, it won’t let me add any new widgets. For example when my homepage is in jingle mode and I click the + to add a new widget, I try to look up this app but now however, it’s not there! So it won’t let me add new widgets. Also my widgets I already had all turned grey and when I hold down the widget to click on “edit widget” it’s not there anymore! So I can’t even change it at all. Also before I got the update the last few widgets I added were all grey and I couldn’t get the picture I wanted. It’s a really good app and concept but I feel like it also needs to have directions on how to use it and edit widgets on the homepage to change widgets. Also it has bugs that need to be fixed. :( (by the way could you please make it so we can customize the widgets name so it doesn’t just say this app?)

by Ttsweet12

I don’t know why people are saying you can’t choose a custom photo, maybe it’s because it wasn’t available at the time or they were doing it wrong.. but I know it works for me! It’s the only app that works for me actually! The others don’t allow me to choose my own pictures for a specific widget, just put them all in and if it decides it wants to use that one then it will. Which is crap. This one allows me to choose the specific picture and size which is amazing! I also like the fact that we can choose other types of widgets from clocks, pictures, custom texts, and photos (all within the free version)! I only have one issue, you can’t add custom fonts. At least not the way I usually do it, I’ll try again and if it doesn’t work I won’t change my review. Hopefully this will be a feature added in the future.

by Glamlifegru

Ok so to be honest Widgetsmith isn't the very best it could be, BUT I think Widgetsmith is amazing not only because of the amount of versatility it offers as opposed to other third party apps, but in my opinion it's also the best. Yes sure there are a couple of features that could be better but what i really want to give a round of applause for is the commitment of the developer. Props to you I can see that you've been working so hard to get out new updates that fix all kinds of thing and constantly add new features. I see that every time I go into Widgetsmith store there's another update and that shows just how committed you are to making this the best possible app. I can't skim over the fact that this is also the BEST 3rd party app for widgets right now so go ahead and download it, you won't be disappointed. I'm so excited to see the new things you bring to Widgetsmith!!

by Liz5_9

Firstly Widgetsmith is amazing. My phone is perfectly customized to my aesthetic and I couldn’t be happier with the look. Unfortunately I noticed that around the beginning of Nov (2020) the widgets aren’t updating correctly any more. My calendar would still say the previous date, or my moon cycle would not be up to date. I also noticed that they look slightly fuzzy or grainy when it’s not correct. The only way I can fix it is to change the calendar to a random widget, the click on the calendar again. But as of lately, it still is grainy. Then the next day it’s stuck to the old date again. When will a update be coming out to fix this? Because I don’t want to have to find a different app but I want all my widgets to be working properly. Please respond so I know these reviews actually do work. Hope to hear from you soon.

by Fev7

So basically I downloaded Widgetsmith to customize my Home Screen after getting the new iOS14 but to my surprise every time I customize my widget and try to add it to my Home Screen it just won’t open and only opens up the standard, default one. I gave Widgetsmith, at first, a one star review till I found the thing that won’t open up my customized widget. Now when you customize your widget and then save it, you’ll be brought back to the page where you pick between small, medium and large widget so you go to the one which you customize, you click on it and then you’ll see in the middle of the clock your customized widget but look closely on the surrounding areas (outside the clock) and you’ll see the standard, default widget there so you’ll click it and then delete it. After that you’ll get your customized widget! You’re welcome!

by ANTHUS10

I was a bit confused on how to make widgets at first but once I got the hang of it it was really easy. There are so many good themes to choose from but I personally use the custom one. There are also many layouts and types of data you can add and customize and I love how easily and often it syncs with my calendar, reminders, pictures, weather and more. There is also a custom wallpaper maker which I tried out. The only things I don’t like about Widgetsmith is that whenever I put a widget on my phone home screen, it says this app under the widget instead of what I named it. I’m pretty sure that can’t really be fixed as it’s the name of Widgetsmith . Also the weather widgets are a premium feature in case you were wondering. Overall, I think this is a really great app for anyone in need of amazing looking widgets and highly recommend over other widget apps. You might want look for app icons somewhere else though.

by Emliy Grey

I recommend Widgetsmith for anyone who has an iPhone of an iPad. I think it’s a great way to make your phone or iPad your own.

Custom Widgets

So I can make widgets out of my own photos or even ones I find on the internet of like cute pets or something. I use this app on my iPhone and it’s a great way to decorate your iPhone. I recommend this for anyone who wants to use there own photos as bubbles that pop up on your phone or iPad screen!

Sizing

The sizes on this app are small, medium, and large. I personally like the small and medium because they can make a nice photo fit in. Most of my photos are from a distance so small widgets are great! The large are a bit big for me tho. So you can edit the widgets to have a print on them, but I still think it would be to big. Again this is a personal opinion. Like I said lots of my photos are taken from a distance so small and medium are for me!

Is there anything really bad?

No! Nothing is wrong with this app! I adore the cute outlines you can style your widgets with and all the formats! this app is a great was to express yourself and I think it’s a good way to get to know someone just by looking at there widgets on there phone or iPad!

In conclusion, I think this app is a great was to style up your iPhone or iPad!

by Sesponge

This is such a good app. You can add a little something to help, and you can also change the way it looks, make a theme! I used short cuts app for the apps, and Widgetsmith adds awesome touches, I love yellow, song my whole IPAD yes iPad, you can use it on a phone and iPad! Anyway, it all yellow theme. I can add a weather to tell me the weather for each day. I can add calendars, I can even add a yellow or any photo with the date to I give my iPad more awesome adds! If you want some others, you can pay! But it’s optional. That’s only if u want just a little more! I also have a yellow Pinterest bored, so every hour a yellow Pinterest widget turn to a cute pic! Widgetsmith is awesome and calms me when I look at it. But if you don’t like the cute aesthetic vibes. Just add a plain widget as a helpful thing! I REALLY recommend Widgetsmith! And not only can u do yellow, u can have themes like a beach vibe! Or pink?! PLEASE get Widgetsmith!!!! Ps. Sorry it so long, I just had to tell u about it!

by Liz ✌🏼

I don’t how people are having problems it’s probably their phone that doesn’t work not Widgetsmith . I got it two days ago and I was able to use all sizes and put any picture I want in there, and it never freezes or doesn’t let me click on it. I already made my phone look exactly how I imagined and it lets me stack the widgets together to make like a slide show. And all the people saying you need to make a separate album for each are wrong or probably confused. You just have to click on “photo” then look at the bottom of your screen and then tap on “selected photo”then it will let you choose your photo. I think the people you see using albums don’t know how to use the photo button. So yeah I love Widgetsmith and it worked perfectly. If you see bad reviews ignore them until you tried it out for yourself because obviously it works for some people like me and all the other people online that have been posting videos on how to do it.☺️Have a good day.

by Pablo45729.37

I was begging my mom to get it after I saw how you could customize your Home Screen even better. Me being a 53 year old I know what’s best for me so I got permission from my mom by yelling but the stairs. So I was having fun changing my Home Screen but then I seemed to have accident run over my ex, but that didn’t seem right Bc I have never been in a relationship and I’m still a virgin. Well after I realized I killed multiple people from a bus that somehow came into my possession I tried driving home but I couldn’t because I have never left my house Bc I can’t leave my fortnite game. As I started driving I realized that my phone wasent even here. What have I been doing all this time then. It was right there when I realized I love men. So after reading this just remember, if roses are red then the carpet is Jupiter and your garage door needs a new shovel. I hope this helped you with your decision on which potatoes to buy.

by Ximena1512

Overall it helps you make a few cute widgets but you have to pay $24 dollars a year JUST to have the weather widget which is honestly crazy when it’s an apple app. Its not like they even have to do anything for the weather. Honestly its pretty upsetting. If it was like $2 dollars to buy a weather widget that would be okay but no.. again... TWENTY FOUR DOLLARS A YEAR. It’s excessive!! You also cant change the name of the widget to
“Calendar” or “clock” it will always say “this app”. If you want a few simple cute widgets then i guess its okay but just remember there are limits and it has an excessive price. Oh and there aren’t even a lot of options for background colors, the only “aesthetic” one is the pastel pink but all the other ones are bright and extra

by Red Ocean Studios

I downloaded this app because I tried out the beta test for Widgeridoo, only to find out you can only create one widget in it before they wanted you to get the Pro version. I wanted to use this app to create photo widgets on my homepage, but the problem I had was it didn’t let me choose an individual picture to display; it only let me choose one of my phone’s albums like the normal Photo widget that came with iOS 14, and it would cycle through all of the photos in the album. I tried to give this app access to only certain photos, but when I did that it just cycled through the few photos I gave it access to. So, in order to get around this, I had to make individual albums on my phone for each photo. Widgetsmith is okay otherwise and has some great customization features, but the Photo widgets didn’t work as I expected it to.

by Idk. Anymore

When it does work, I absolutely love Widgetsmith, but the thing is that’s not always. Usually, you have to re-download it in order for it to work, so you have to get it, delete it, and then download it again in order for the widgets to show up. It also can be really difficult to just set a single picture as a widget, which you can do but you’d have to create an entire album of just that photo. I really like Widgetsmith , but I just think it could be executed way better, so maybe you guys could fix small things like that.

by Nat5644

This is honestly my favorite widget app to use for customizing my iPhone Home Screen after the new update.. but there is a little bug that’s pretty annoying. After I was done customizing my Home Screen I wanted to add a little extra widget just for fun. I did all the steps I did before, put the picture I wanted into a individual album, picked the album that I wanted to use on the this app app and hit save. When I check how it looked like on the Home Screen, it was just the default gray widget (before adding anything). I tried to edit it and just re-select the picture I wanted but that didn’t work. I tried wit other pictures and some worked but others didn’t. I deleted that widget and made a new one. Still didn’t work. I delete the photo, uploaded it again to the this app app and it still did not want to work. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?

by Toprating2k15

I am leaving this review after having Widgetsmith for about a day. I am using it to be able to view my photo albums as a widget. That in itself is a great feature as the Apple Photos widget doesn’t have that option. I would like to ask the developer to randomize the algorithm a little more though when choosing pictures to display from the album, as I have seen the same pictures cycled through multiple times in a single day. My album has about 400 pictures so I was a little shocked by this. I would also appreciate if Widgetsmith would give you the option to chose what pictures from the album are displayed. A way to skip through photos would also be nice. Overall solid start to Widgetsmith and will be happily awaiting more updates.

by 𝒋𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒆

Widgetsmith is amazing for customizing my home screen to my preferred aesthetic. They only thing Widgetsmith lacks is more color swatches overall and a better system to select photos. The colors they already have are good but they are generally are deeper colors. It causes problems because the background, border, and font colors clash very often due to the limited choices. One of the great things about Widgetsmith is adding your own photos to the home screen. However doing so proves difficult because it selects a photo at random from your photo album. Being able to tap into the photo album and select the picture yourself would be so much better. But Widgetsmith is still amazing and the two issues seem easy to fix!!

by MC Segura

For me, I was able to get most of everything I wanted for my cute aesthetic IOS14 background. Whenever I would want to add more or I added it and I didn’t quite like how it was those times, it would either appear gray or black. The weird thing is is that when I am able to edit the widget, I am able to get the ones I previously did but not the brand new one I made. I redownloaded it and restarted my phone and it stayed the same when I wanted to add a new one. I would suggest getting an update soon fixing this problem, so we can add more than we want and it being able to work and an easier efficient way to get what we want for the widget

by Spankmymoto

Really liking Widgetsmith a lot. Has a bunch of customizing with the widgets and it allows a person to truly personalize the iPhone.

The one thing I wasn’t crazy about is a subscription service to access the premium widgets. I’m just not entirely sure if that is something I would want to pay for on a regular basis.

However, the all is great and I certainly wouldn’t have minded paying a flat fee for Widgetsmith at all.

A few suggestions from me would be:

1. Remove this app from beneath the widget.

2. Offer a small free trial to the premium service so potential customers can get a feel for it and determine if that is what they are wanting.

3. If possible, make interactive widgets. This is something I wish Apple would have done with their widgets. For example, the Apple Music widget would have been nice to actually have the controls right in the widget for play, pause, skip and so on.

4. Again, nice app and I like the direction it is going. Always evolve it and it will never become stale.

by Summer 🌺

I was able to learn quickly with widgets using Widgetsmith and playing around it. I like having the options of the different sizes of the widgets, different fonts, different colors, and my own custom text and photos. Something I would like to be on Widgetsmith is more fonts (maybe the ones like on Word or Google Docs). I would like more color collection (more shades of the main colors such as red, blue, purple, yellow, pink, etc). One last thing I would LOVE is being able to change what the widget says. Instead of all my widgets from Widgetsmith saying “this app”, I think a cool custom text would be nice :)

by KittyLovef

Don’t get me wrong, Widgetsmith is amazing and so great to use for customizing your phone and/or IPad. But there’s a lot of glitches that could be fixed. There’s a glitch where when you have only one large widget(this happens for any size) and you try to add it, it will put a default widget instead. This was really frustrating since I couldn’t add the widget. There was also this thing where I couldn’t add another small widget because it kept adding the one I made before. This was also really frustrating. Besides that, Widgetsmith is great and I 10/10 recommend. This was just to state some glitches I experienced. Thanks for reading!

by CompositionNotebook

I use Widgetsmith for custom photos on my widgets, and it works perfectly. There’s no limit to the number of widgets I can make, and I can also create widget stacks with my photos. However, one thing that constantly annoys me is that if you want to use a specific photo, you have to create a whole new album in your photos app to use it, since this app doesn’t have the option to select a specific photo, only a specific album. It would be really great to be able to select specific photos.

I also love the other widget options, such as the sunset and stars widgets, but it would be even better if there was more customization involved. For example, you’re limited to certain colors for the widgets, and for the blank widget option, it would be cool to be able to add your own text if wanted.

Otherwise, this is one of the best widget apps out there, and there’s so much you can do!!

Update: they added new features!!!! Thank you so much Widgetsmith has been a lifechanger

by Apersontatisusingit

Ok so Widgetsmith I’m in love, I literally spend all my day o. This to personalize my hom screen, buttttt, the problem is, that for me, sometimes it be all good but then when I try to put the pictures again they turn grey and don’t turn to the picture I want it to, so I waited a whole day to load and it still was on the color grey, so I deleted it and installed it again, for a while it worked fine, but then again it did the same thing and I have to do it all over again, so can y’all please fix that problem, thanks

by 🧚‍♀️✨ripcheeto✨🧚‍♀️

To clear up any confusion for the people that only get a grey square when trying to add the widget, click on it until the 3D Touch section pops up and it will give you 3 options. Click the one that says edit widget. Then click again on a the word widget when it pops up and then scroll till you find the widget you were trying to add in the first place, that is if you saved it. It’s a really great app to customize your IOS 14 device.