Alternatives to Widgetsmith

An iPhone and iPad app for designing customizable Home Screen widgets, themes and wallpapers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

  • Widgetsmith

    An iPhone and iPad app for designing customizable Home Screen widgets, themes and wallpapers.

    FreemiumProprietaryiOS

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Widgetsmith.

  • Widgy Widgets

    A layer-based widget editor for the iPhone Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch.

    FreemiumProprietarymacOSiOS

    Widgy Widgets uses a layer-based editor with charts, gauges and gradients and also covers Apple Watch, but it takes more learning than Widgetsmith.

  • Color Widgets

    An iPhone and iPad app for adding customized widgets, icon packs, themes and wallpapers to your screens.

    FreemiumProprietarymacOSiOS

    Color Widgets focuses on thousands of predesigned widgets, themes, icon packs and wallpapers for Home and Lock Screen, with some content behind in-app purchases.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • KWGT

    An Android app for designing custom home screen widgets, with a large community sharing widget designs.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroid

  • KLWP

    An Android app for building your own interactive and animated live wallpapers, starting from templates or scratch.

    FreemiumProprietaryAndroid

  • BeWidgets

    Windows 11 desktop widget app for time, weather, photos and shortcuts.

    FreeProprietaryWindows