Widgy is one of the best widget customization apps on iOS. It’s powerful, it’s deep, and if you want total control over every pixel on your Home Screen, it’s hard to beat.

24QW isn’t trying to beat it. The two apps look similar on the surface because they both put widgets on your phone. But they’re built around completely different ideas about what a widget should be.

What Widgy Actually Does

Widgy is a widget builder. You open it and you’re handed a layered editor that feels closer to a design tool than a typical app. You can add text, shapes, icons, images, data elements, progress bars. You control fonts, colors, transparency, positioning. It pulls in live data like weather, battery level, calendar events, fitness stats.

There’s a big community around it too. People share their creations in an explore tab, and there’s an active subreddit where designers post setups. If you’ve got the patience and the eye for it, you can make something genuinely impressive.

The pricing is fair. Free to start, one-time purchases to unlock more widget slots. No subscriptions.

For people who want to sit down and craft their own widgets piece by piece, Widgy is legitimately great at what it does.

What 24QW Does Instead

24QW doesn’t give you an editor. There’s nothing to build. You open a blindbox and you get a widget designed by someone else, finished and ready.

That sounds limiting if you think of widgets as tools. It makes a lot more sense if you think of them as objects.

Every 24QW widget is a self-contained design piece. They’re made to look good on your screen the way a figure looks good on a shelf. You don’t configure them. You collect them. Some are common, some aren’t. The rare ones carry weight precisely because you can’t just go make one yourself.

It’s closer to buying a toy from a blindbox at a shop than it is to opening Photoshop.

The Real Difference Is the Relationship

With Widgy, you’re the creator. You decide what goes where, how it looks, what data it shows. The satisfaction comes from building something that’s yours.

With 24QW, you’re the collector. The satisfaction comes from the reveal, from getting something you didn’t expect, from curating a set over time. There’s tension in not knowing what’s inside the box. That’s the whole point.

These aren’t competing experiences. They scratch totally different itches. One is about control. The other is about discovery.

Who Should Use Which

If you like tinkering, if you’ve got opinions about font weights and corner radii, if your ideal Saturday involves perfecting a Home Screen layout for three hours, Widgy’s your app. Seriously. It’s good at this.

If you don’t want to design anything but you still want your Home Screen to feel curated and personal, 24QW works differently. You collect things. You arrange what you’ve found. Your screen becomes a reflection of luck and taste rather than technical skill.

Some people will use both. That’s fine. They don’t conflict.

Where 24QW Is Headed

Widgy is a mature product. It’s been around for years and it does its thing well.

24QW is earlier in its life and building toward something that Widgy isn’t really aiming for. Trading is coming. So are wallpapers, icons, and other accessories that fit into the same collectible ecosystem. The widget is just the starting point for a broader world of design objects on your phone.

That’s a fundamentally different bet. Widgy bets on giving you the best possible creation tools. 24QW bets that some people would rather collect than create, and that there’s a whole culture waiting to form around that.

Bottom Line

Widgy is a great widget editor. 24QW isn’t a widget editor at all. Comparing them on features misses the point.

The real question is what you want your Home Screen to feel like. A canvas you built yourself, or a collection you put together over time. Both are valid. They just come from different places.

24QW is available on the App Store. Open a blindbox and see what you get.