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Color Widgets
Home and Lock Screen widgets, icon packs and themes for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a build-your-own editor.
Get the app
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- Developer
- Digital Charms, Inc.
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 100K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 9+
- Version
- 9.0.0
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Color Widgets is a customisation kit for iPhone, iPad and Mac Home and Lock Screens. Users can pick from a large library of ready-made widgets or build their own in the editor, choosing photos, fonts, styles and a colour scheme. It also supplies icon packs, wallpapers and themes that bundle all three. Widget types include photo, time and date, battery, countdown, weather, calendar, custom text or quote, Apple Music and Spotify, activity and step count, and solar and moon phase. Themes are user-made and number in the thousands, with new ones published daily; applying one sets widgets, icons and wallpaper together. Icon packs apply through the app's quick setup, or via Shortcuts after saving them to the camera roll. It's free, with a Pro upgrade billed yearly at USD$2.50 a month after a three-day trial. Health widgets read step data from the iOS Health app, and it needs iOS 14 or macOS 11 or later.
Color Widgets: the full guide
What the app is
Redecorating an iPhone, iPad or Mac is the job here. Color Widgets supplies ready-made widgets for Home and Lock Screens, an editor for building your own from photos, fonts and colour schemes, plus icon packs, wallpapers and themes, the last of which combine the other two with widgets into one look.
Widgets cover time, battery, countdowns, weather, calendar, custom text, Apple Music and Spotify, step counts and moon phase. Users make the themes, thousands so far, and new ones appear daily. Icon packs apply through a quick setup or via Shortcuts. A Pro upgrade is billed yearly at a monthly-equivalent of USD$2.50 once a three-day trial ends.
How it works day to day
The first evening is the big one: you browse themes, pick a look, and apply widgets, icons and wallpaper together, then spend a while tweaking a custom widget in the editor so the font matches. After that it's occasional.
A new theme catches your eye every few weeks, or a countdown to a holiday gets added, or the weather widget swaps for a step counter when you start running. Icon packs applied through Shortcuts take a little patience the first time. Mostly the app's work is visible on the Home Screen rather than inside it.
Why people look for it
Searches come from people who've seen a customised iPhone Home Screen and want theirs to match. The appeal is that one theme sets widgets, icons and wallpaper at once, which saves the manual work the trend used to involve. A 4.6 rating from 100K+ reviewers shows a large audience, likely with some friction around the trial-to-subscription step.
Look and feel
With five screenshots, expect theme galleries, before-and-after Home Screens and the widget editor. The app's purpose is appearance, so the gallery is bright, grid-based and heavy on aesthetic variety, from pastel to monochrome. The widgets themselves range from minimal clock faces to photo collages, depending entirely on which theme you pick.
Updates and upkeep
Version 9.0.0 is a clean major release, which suggests a recent redesign or feature jump. Digital Charms, Inc. is the developer. A 4.6 average from 100K+ ratings indicates a well-established app. It needs at least iOS 14 or macOS 11, so it reaches back several OS generations. Only the App Store is linked, and widgets of this kind are iOS-specific anyway.
