Photo Widget Downloads & RevenuePhoto Widget — The Best One · App Store
Photo Widget — The Best One is #37 in Lifestyle Paid in Germany and charting in 2 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Photo Widget — The Best One update history & changes
Last change · 25 events since 21 Sep 2020Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 25 events
- 🚀Photo Widget — The Best One: now shown next to Widgetmania – Custom widgets, Widget Maker - Extra Widgets, 回忆：桌面照片the store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One entered the top 10Top Paid · Lifestyle · VN
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One charting in a new countryVietnam
- 🆕Photo Widget — The Best One: its developer released another app: Bare
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One entered the top 10Top Paid · Lifestyle · FR
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One new best rank in the overall chart: #120Top Paid · All Apps · FR
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One charting in a new countryFrance
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One entered the top 10Top Paid · Lifestyle · CA
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One entered the top 10Top Paid · Lifestyle · MX
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One charting in a new countryMexico
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One entered the top 100Top Paid · Lifestyle · CA
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One charting in a new countryCanada
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One entered the top 100Top Paid · Lifestyle · AU
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One charting in a new countryAustralia
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One entered the top 100Top Paid · Lifestyle · GB
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- 📈Photo Widget — The Best One charting in a new countryTaiwan
- 🆕Photo Widget — The Best One first spotted by AppInsider#66 in Top Paid · Lifestyle · United States
- 📦Photo Widget — The Best One version 2.3.3No release notes
- 🆕Photo Widget — The Best One released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Lifestyle PaidPhoto Widget — The Best One at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-02. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A paid utility that enables users to display customizable photo slideshows and static images on the iOS home screen and StandBy mode, targeting individuals seeking personalized visual widgets. The app currently ranks #2 in the Vietnam Lifestyle Paid category and #124 in the overall Vietnam Paid apps chart, indicating strong regional demand for premium customization tools.
Similar apps: Widgetsmith, Color Widgets, Photo Widget: Simple
Photo Widget — The Best One on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Photo Widget — The Best One’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 1 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Photo Widget — The Best One downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Photo Widget — The Best One's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | LifestylePaid | #37 |
 Vietnam | LifestylePaid | #73 |
Apps near Photo Widget — The Best One on the chart
Lifestyle Paid, around #37.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings by country (2)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1.5 | 60% | – |
| United States | 1 | 40% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Photo Widget — The Best One
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the app for its simplicity, ad-free experience, and effective photo rotation capabilities that improve upon native iOS widgets. However, a minority of reviews highlight significant bugs related to iOS updates, such as loss of image data during phone transfers or persistent permission requests.
Mostly positive (88% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and few ads. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Extremely easy to open and start using”
- Ads: “Works perfectly and no ads!”
- Features & content: “I get to see a variety of family members many times a day”
- Useful: “Works perfectly and no ads!”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “This was awesome but now it’s buggy and loses its media in your widgets leaving a blank slide”
- Updates: “Be careful when trying to update it from older phones your images might not transfer over it happened to me”
About Photo Widget — The Best One
Create as many photo widgets as you like with one or more photos per widget. If you choose more than one photo, it will change photos on a time interval (which can be customized in the settings). Each widget can have separate photos. You can also show photos from an album in your photo library.
■ Features
- Widgets with a single photo.
- Widgets with multiple photos that change on an interval (slideshow).
- Widgets showing photos from an album in your photo library (slideshow).
- Three widget sizes.
- Import photos from the photo library or the file system.
- Tapping a widget can either show a larger preview of the photo, open a URL, or run a shortcut.
- The “Album” widget has a setting to show a random photo only from the most recent `n` photos in the album, where `n` is the number you choose.
■ How it works
First, decide whether you want to select the individual photos to show (1) or just choose an existing album from your photo library (2).
1. Add photos to the app which you can later choose from in a widget. Then add the “Photo Widget” widget with the “Photos” type and edit the widget to pick the photos to show.
2. Add the “Photo Widget” widget with the “Album” type and edit it to choose the album.
■ Limitation
If you make two or more widgets of the same size where all of them are set to show all the photos or the same album, they will show photos in the same order. This is a limitation in the iOS widget system. You can work around this by giving the widgets unique names in the widget configuration.
■ Tip
If you have a widget that cycles between photos and you want to force it to skip to the next photo, long-press the widget, select “Edit Widget”, and then close the edit view. The widget should now have a new photo.
■ FAQ
〉 How do I add a widget to the home screen?
When on the home screen, long-press on the background (not on any icons), press the top-left “+” button, and select “Photo Widget”.
〉 How do I edit a widget?
When on the home screen, long-press on the widget, and select “Edit Widget”.
〉 Why can I only add 100 photos to the app?
This is because of a technical limitation in the iOS widget system. Hopefully, it can be increased in the future. It should be enough for most users though.
If you use the “Album” widget, there’s no limit to the number of photos.
〉 How can I hide the name of the app shown below the widget?
This is not possible. App developers have no way to hide it.
〉 How is this different from the built-in “Photos” widget?
The built-in widget only shows photos from “Memories” and “Featured Photos” in your photo library. There is no way to customize it or pick the photos to be shown.
〉 Can I show an animated GIF in a widget?
This is not possible.
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