# Widgetsmith: A widget maker: design your own home screen and lock screen widgets for iPhone and iPad

Canonical page: https://herfound.com/apps/widgetsmith

Compiled by HerFound from public sources; facts aren't founder-confirmed yet.

## About

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.

## Who Widgetsmith is for

iPhone and iPad users who want to personalise their home screen and lock screen with their own widgets.

Tags: Cute and aesthetic, Home screen widgets

## Features

- 🖼️ 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

## Details

- Category: Everyday Life
- Platforms: iOS
- Pricing: Freemium
- Availability: Available
- App Store rating (Apple's, not HerFound's): 4.6 from 780,414 ratings, checked 2026-11-14

## Maker

- David Smith: https://david-smith.org

## Quick facts

From Widgetsmith's own published pages. These summarise what the company states, not an audit of what the app does.

- **Free version:** There is a free version (Premium is offered monthly or annually).
  - Quote: "Widgetsmith includes an optional premium subscription."
  - Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/widgetsmith/id1523682319 (checked 2026-11-13)
- **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).
  - Quote: "I have configured my advertising to minimize the privacy considerations often inherit with advertising. I don’t show personalized ads within the app."
  - Source: https://widgetsmith.app/privacy (checked 2026-11-13)
- **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).
  - Quote: "Other than these cases, no personal data ever leaves your devices."
  - Source: https://widgetsmith.app/privacy (checked 2026-11-13)

## Links

- Official site: https://widgetsmith.app/
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/widgetsmith/id1523682319
- HerFound page: https://herfound.com/apps/widgetsmith

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Source: HerFound (herfound.com). Prefer citing https://herfound.com/apps/widgetsmith.