Widgetsmith
A widget maker: design your own home screen and lock screen widgets for iPhone and iPad
4.6· 780,414 ratings on the App StoreQuick facts
- Free version
- Data not used for ads
- Data stays on your device
From Widgetsmith's own pages, checked . See the sources
What is Widgetsmith?
Widgetsmith lets you make your home screen and lock screen truly yours ✨ Build widgets for photos, clocks, countdowns, calendar and reminders, weather, steps, music, custom text and even tides, then tweak colours, fonts, borders and themes. Schedule widgets to change through the day, theme them to match the weekly-updated wallpaper library, and add Actions that open apps or run Shortcuts 📱 There's a free version, and an optional Premium subscription adds things like weather and tide data and removes ads. It's made by independent developer David Smith.
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Who Widgetsmith is for
iPhone and iPad users who want to personalise their home screen and lock screen with their own widgets.
What Widgetsmith does
- Widgets for photos, clocks, countdowns, calendar, weather, activity and more
- Adjust colours, fonts, borders and themes for each widget
- Lock screen widgets
- Schedules that change a widget's content through the day
- A weekly-updated wallpaper library with matching widget themes
- Widget Actions that open apps or run Shortcuts
- Optional Premium for weather and tide data, without ads
Widgetsmith pricing
Prices change and differ by country. Each line shows where and when we read it.
- Free version
There is a free version.
Premium is offered monthly or annually.
“Widgetsmith includes an optional premium subscription.”
Source: apps.apple.com · checked Nov 13, 2026
Widgetsmith privacy: what the company says about your data
Taken from Widgetsmith's own published pages, with the exact passage each line rests on. This is a summary of what the company states, not an audit of what it does.
- Advertising
Says it does not use or share personal data for advertising.
Non-subscribers may see AdMob ads; the policy says these are not personalised and Google's ad tracking is disabled.
“I have configured my advertising to minimize the privacy considerations often inherit with advertising. I don’t show personalized ads within the app.”
Source: widgetsmith.app · checked Nov 13, 2026
- Where your data is kept
Your data is kept on your device.
The exceptions are location coordinates sent with weather, tide, air quality and pollen requests to those data providers.
“Other than these cases, no personal data ever leaves your devices.”
Source: widgetsmith.app · checked Nov 13, 2026
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Widgetsmith: common questions
There is a free version. Source: apps.apple.com, checked Nov 13, 2026.
Widgetsmith says it does not use or share personal data for advertising. Source: widgetsmith.app, checked Nov 13, 2026.
Your data is kept on your device. Source: widgetsmith.app, checked Nov 13, 2026.
Widgetsmith is available on iOS.
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