Best iPhone Widget Apps for iOS 27 (2026)

Widgetsmith is the app most people mean when they search for iPhone widgets, and it still has the most ratings of any widget app on the App Store.

You build each widget from a template: pick a size, choose what it shows (date, time, weather, calendar, reminders, steps, tides, photos or custom text), then set the font, colours and border. The standout feature is scheduling. You can show one widget in the morning and a different one in the evening in the same slot, so a single Home Screen changes through the day. Lock Screen widgets use the same editor.

Widgetsmith is free, and most styles work without paying. Premium unlocks weather, tides and extra themes; the App Store lists Premium plans from $1.99 to $29.99 depending on the term.

Widgy is for people who want full control and do not mind a learning curve.

Instead of templates, Widgy gives you a layer editor: stack text, photos, SF Symbols, shapes, charts and gauges, then wire them to data such as battery, weather, calendar, reminders and Apple Health. If you do not want to start from zero, import one of the thousands of designs shared by the Widgy community and tweak it. Widgy also makes Lock Screen widgets, Apple Watch complications (through its Watchy feature) and Live Activity layouts.

The app is free to try. Extra widget slots are paid: Home Screen slots, Lock Screen slots and Watch slots are $7.99 each, and the XL slots pack (with iPad transparency) is $0.99.

Color Widgets is built for people who want a Home Screen that looks designed rather than assembled.

It has thousands of ready-made widgets (clock, date, battery, countdown, weather, calendar, music, step count, moon phase) plus a customiser for colours, fonts and photo backgrounds. The bigger draw is its theme library: more than 15,000 community themes that bundle widgets, icon packs and a wallpaper, so you can restyle the Home Screen and Lock Screen in a few taps.

The app is free to download. Color Widgets Pro unlocks the full library, with plans listed from $4.99 to $49.99.

Apple's Photos widget picks images for you. Photo Widget lets you choose.

Pick an album or a hand-picked set of photos, set how often it rotates, and add it to the Home Screen or Lock Screen. You can add frames, shapes and stickers, and the app also sells widget themes that pair photos with clocks and calendars.

Photo Widget is free with ads. PhotoWidget Pro is listed at $6.99 a month or $24.99 a year, and individual themes and items cost $0.99 to $2.39.

Locket turns a widget into a shared photo frame for your closest people.

When a friend snaps a photo in Locket, it appears straight on your Home Screen widget, and yours appears on theirs. You can react with emoji, scroll back through past photos, and get a monthly recap video. The friend list is capped at 20 people on purpose, so it stays personal rather than turning into another feed.

Locket is free. Locket Gold adds extras such as more customisation, with plans listed from $1.99 to $36.

Widgetable goes further than Locket with a whole set of widgets meant to be shared with a partner or best friend.

There is a distance widget that shows how far apart you are, a mood widget, a "miss you" counter, doodles and notes you can pin to each other's screens, and a virtual pet you raise together. It is playful and busy, which is exactly the point for its audience.

Widgetable is free. Premium is listed at $4.99 a month or $19.99 a year, and the app also sells diamonds and pet items, so set a spending limit if a younger family member uses it.

Launcher puts your most frequent actions on the Home Screen as one-tap buttons.

Each button can call or message a contact, start a FaceTime call, open a website, jump into a specific screen of an app, or run a shortcut. You can fit many launchers in one widget and group them by theme (family, work, smart home). Launcher already supports the iOS 27 extra-large size, which gives you a full page of shortcuts.

Launcher is free with limits. A one-time $14.99 Premium purchase unlocks unlimited widgets and launchers, which is better value than a subscription if you keep it for years.

ScreenKit bundles widgets with app icon themes so the whole Home Screen matches.

It ships thousands of icon designs and hundreds of widget styles (clocks, counters, battery, calendar, photos), plus themed packs where icons, widgets and wallpaper are designed together. Custom icons are applied through the Shortcuts app, which ScreenKit walks you through.

The app is free to install, but most packs are locked. The App Store lists a $9.99 one-time unlock for all icons and widgets and $14.99 to unlock everything, alongside ScreenKit+ subscriptions from $4.99. The one-time unlock is the better deal for most people.

CARROT Weather has the most configurable weather widgets on iPhone, with a sarcastic robot personality on top.

You choose exactly which data points each widget shows (feels-like temperature, wind, UV index, air quality, rain chance, hourly or daily charts), and it covers Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy, plus Live Activities and Apple Watch complications. Premium also lets you switch the data source between Apple Weather, AccuWeather, The Weather Channel and others.

One catch: the app is free, but its Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets are part of Premium. CARROT Premium is listed at $4.99 a month or $19.99 a year, with cheaper Mini and pricier Ultra tiers around it.

Fantastical is the calendar app to pick if your day is packed and you want it readable from the Home Screen.

Its widgets combine upcoming events, tasks (including Todoist and Google Tasks) and a weather forecast in one view, and there are interactive widgets for checking off tasks. Typing an event in plain English ("Lunch with Sam Friday 1pm") is still the fastest way to add one on iPhone.

The free version handles basic events. Flexibits Premium ($6.99 a month or $56.99 a year) adds meeting polls, scheduling links, calendar sets and the extended forecast across Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. If you only need a clean agenda, try Apple Calendar's widgets on iOS 27 first.

Spark from Readdle is a full email client with some of the most useful mail widgets on iOS.

Its widgets show your smart inbox, the newest messages or pinned emails, and they work across Gmail, Outlook, iCloud and other accounts in one place. That makes it a good fit if you juggle work and personal inboxes.

Spark is free to download. Spark Premium is listed at $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year and adds the AI and team features; the separate Plus and Pro plans are aimed at businesses.

DataMan shows how much mobile data you have used in a Home Screen widget, measured against your plan and billing date.

Set your monthly allowance and the day your cycle resets, and the widget shows usage at a glance, with a warning before you go over. It also tracks Wi-Fi usage. iOS only shows raw totals in Settings, so this is the easiest way to keep a capped plan in check.

DataMan costs $0.99 to download, with an optional PRO subscription listed at $0.99 or $9.99 a year.