Widgeridoo Reviews

I appreciate the developer's response to my original review.

Interestingly, the response says that only the first widget is available to users unless they buy Widgeridoo . That's fine. However, Widgeridoo on my iPad clearly states "select a widget in the list on the left". So, that's what I did and one reason I found it confusing. It says nothing about only having access to one widget.

Widgeridoo 's usability might be better if it did two things:

1. Clearly separate free vs purchasable widgets.
2. Let users see the contents of purchasable widgets, but not change them.

--- Original Review ---

Confusing widgets that can't be edited 😕

Three examples:

- The compact widget evidently has an area for a photo, possibly a contact photo. On my device, there's just an icon there. There's no way to set the photo, contact, or whatever it is. Instead, if I tap on it, Widgeridoo asks me for money.

- 3 of the widgets have what appear to be circular graphs with data in them. There's no way to tell what these graphs represent. If I tap on them to try to find out, Widgeridoo asks me for money.

- The calendar widget is picking calendar entries from Calendar's that I have access to, but that I don't use. If I try to find a way to set the calendars, Widgeridoo asks me for money.

This might be a good app, but I can't tell based on the widgets provided.

This may be the quintessential widget app but I’ll never know! Why? (You might ask). Because I downloaded Widgeridoo with the dumb name. I try using Widgeridoo... but I cannot do ANYTHING! They keep asking for money! How am I, or anyone else, suppose to try it out if money demands keep precluding the opportunity to test out Widgeridoo . Not exactly being respectful of the consumer, are they?

So, SAYONARA! I get to keep my money and look for something more creative and user friendly and you get to keep your app! I’ve got your number, so to speak: it’s all about money.

I purchased pro version immediately. Big mistake. Would like refund. iPhone XS Max running 14.2. Can create medium widget with 3 pics from photos. Install blue box placeholder. Tap to edit while still wiggling. Get “choose widget” screen, which just spins for 10 mins, never letting me choose widget I created. Emailed developer, and appreciate the quick response but his instructions to “restart device” doesn’t work. Same problem. Other widget apps work flawlessly including with photos.

How do I get refund?

Charged for “Pro Update” without authorization.
I contacted Apple to find out what “Pro Update” app was. They told me it was from Widgeridoo.
I never requested to be upgraded on Widgeridoo. Even when I download Widgeridoo it doesn’t show that I am “Pro.”

**It must be possible because I was charged for the “update” when I never upgraded...so yes I contacted Apple. Even so, when downloading your app again AFTER being charged...the “upgrade status” did not even show in your app. I have no idea how you guys managed to charge my account either...

I will update this review as time goes on. Widgeridoo has a lot of options and potential to be the best in Widgeridoo store. I will list a few things. The customize options rules but with limited options so far. I will like to see a way I can add a image as a background that will do all the cells or individual cells as an option. Also the option to add the default weather or any weather app that has the widget option. I like how you can build with this also some options with the time styles and a option to add a battery that has some styles to, a background picture that can fill the with of all cells as one image like I mentioned before will be great. I paid full for the pro. I will wait a the developer adds more. Thank you.

I got Widgeridoo because i just got ios 14 and want to hop on the train to customize my phone. It took me about half an hour to figure out my way around Widgeridoo and when I tried adding an image in half of my widget, the image quality came out really poor even though the original image I tried to add in is crystal clear. It’s possible there’s some way to fix this, but I haven’t found it yet. Also don’t see a way to edit the image you’re trying to put in? Like to crop it. Overall Widgeridoo has great potential but I think it could stand to be more user-friendly (like Widgetsmith) and have some bugs worked out.

As a Pro user, this app is relatively straightforward to use. It’s simple and powerful in the effects you can achieve, but the current version displays high res, crisp images as blurry when imported into the widget. It’s pretty frustrating and I hope this issue is fixed in upcoming versions.

—Update: Shoutout to the super responsive developer for consistently working to improve Widgeridoo . Looking forward to crisper pictures. Thanks for responding!

Hi, I have a problem with Widgeridoo . As I read in another review you’re supposed to be able to edit the first widget (correct me if I’m wrong). Though when I tried to do so it said that I needed to buy the pro version to do so, at first I was able to edit it then later on it brought up the pro version message. So I’m confused if you took out that feature or the new update might’ve messed that up?

In its current state I’d give Widgeridoo 3 stars so the extra star is for clear potential I hope the developer comes through with. Speaking of that potential, I checked Widgeridoo website, where can we submit suggestions for future updates? E.g date format, metric units, opacity slider for background color, new dynamic blocks, etc.

I’ve tried many widget apps and this one has a lot of potential for sure!

I would love to see more font choices and also an undo button and a delete button (for the boxes) when setting up your own template. So many times I tried to add a row or a column and it wasn’t what I pictured in my head and then couldn’t easily fix it.

It’s definitely more customizable than any other I’ve tried. I can’t wait to see what future updates hold as far as additions to what we can use and integrate into the widgets.

I really love Widgeridoo and paid the extra $4 for the pro version. I love it because of the customization features using color. I just hope there’s more things like a clock, timed widgets (widgets that switch at a certain time), and a lot more things. Overall great app just needs some updates!

this is the best widget app !!! i would like more options of things to add but for just starting it has a good selection and lets me pick one photo however i would like an option to pick how the photo is displayed and the option to add more photos

Widgeridoo is great, I just have one suggestion. Please fix the bug that downgrades the quality of an image when you set it to be the background of a widget. This would make Widgeridoo significantly more useable for me and others who I know use Widgeridoo .

Before downloading/purchasing Widgeridoo , I looked at the reviews. Some people said they saw a few bugs that needed to be fixed but otherwise said it’s a great app. I decided to give it a try. I am glad I did! Widgeridoo is a bit quirky but I am sure the very responsive dev (one of the reasons I decided to try Widgeridoo ) will fix the few bugs. Overall it’s a great app and lets you do a lot of things with much more coming soon I bet. I love that I can customize the entire look & feel of every aspect of a widget that you create.

You may ask why I gave it a 5 star review if Widgeridoo has a few bugs...Besides it being a great app overall, I did so because every bug that has been reported the dev quickly addressed so I gave Widgeridoo 5 stars because the dev is very responsive that is a trait that is hard to come by these days and should be applauded.

I look forward to see what other features gets added to Widgeridoo!

Can be confusing at first, just have to be patient. I
had to do lots of trial and error and after a couple of hours I was confidently making my own widgets. I gave it 5 stars because it’s NOT SUBSCRIPTION (single purchase) and only $4.99. I wish there’s a way to share my widgets though.

This is WAY cleaner, WAY more professional, and WAY more customizable than the other widget editors I’ve used. Very impressive! Only suggestion I have is enabling us to add a photo as a background to a block as opposed to a color, and then being able to adjust the brightness of the photo accordingly.

Overall, like Widgeridoo. Seems pretty useful. Wish it hooked into more of the native apps in iOS or even third party apps so we could put more stuff in there. But honestly, it’s pretty unique compared to others and pretty handy to stick a few things together into one widget. Well done developers.

I think Widgeridoo is useful and very well executed with a couple of minor bugs (e.g, whenever I use the fill option on the photo part, the unseen part of the image will open the edit options of the image slot, which is a bit obtrusive). I would really appreciate it if it was possible to cycle through albums of photos for the image slot

I absolutely loved Widgeridoo and my custom photo/calendar widget when I first got it, but before I could get it on my daughter’s phone and my husband’s when I tried to add another photo or create a new widget it only adds a blue box, without any widgets:/ I’ve send an email to the developer, but haven’t received a response as of yet. I’m really hoping it was a user error.

This is the best widget app I have seen so far. I’ll probably not end up using it though.

Creating a widget can be slightly awkward and clunky, but not terrible.
More font options are very much needed.

I was really hoping for pretty much exactly this, but with a transparent background option. I’m not sure if that is possible though. (If it is, and that gets added I likely will use this.) Also, maybe I’m missing it, but the option for a background image instead of a colour would also be nice.

Having to see Widgeridoo name underneath is kinda turning me off from widget apps like this. Not a fault of Widgeridoo though. Nothing can be done about that.

More can definitely be added. I will be watching Widgeridoo for sure!

I really love Widgeridoo and paid the extra $4 for the pro version. I love it because of the customization features using color. I just hope there’s more things like a clock, timed widgets (widgets that switch at a certain time), and a lot more things. Overall great app just needs some updates!