# Photo Widget - Themes

> Home screen widgets & Icons

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1522087125](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1522087125)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1522087125`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Laid-back Lion Apps Ltd
- **Category:** Graphics & Design
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (32,885 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.13
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-25
- **First published:** 2020-09-17
- **Size:** 283 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photo-widget-themes/id1522087125)
- **Website:** [https://laidbacklionapps.com](https://laidbacklionapps.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://laidbacklionapps.com/privacy-policy/](https://laidbacklionapps.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

Photo Widget - Themes gives you a powerful toolkit to customize your home screen with theme-based icons, a wallpaper maker, and photo widgets. Create albums, crop images, and color-match icons to your style. 

It also packs a wide range of widgets — calendar, time & date, text, events, health, and weather — in multiple sizes, plus lock screen widgets, Dynamic Island notch customization, wallpaper changes, charging animation, and a color picker to harmonize widget colors across your setup.

## Rankings

- #8,681 — Overall
- #1 — custom background
- #9 — background
- #18 — widget
- #22 — icon
- #30 — personalize

## Review summary

Users frequently praise the app’s customization potential and visuals, but this is overshadowed by heavy paywalls and reliability problems. Repeated concerns include mandatory subscriptions, high ongoing costs, locked features behind premium, crashes or widgets failing to load, and unfulfilled promises to offer free options or fixes. The overall impression is that the app is appealing in theory but costly and fragile in practice.

### Pros

- Offers strong customization options for the home screen (fonts, icons, wallpapers)
- Visually appealing backgrounds and wallpapers that appeal to users who want personalization
- Some users report a positive initial impression and willingness to recommend the app

### Cons

- Paywall and mandatory subscription to access most features across multiple reviews
- High ongoing cost and perceived poor value (often cited as around $5 per week)
- Most customization options and backgrounds locked behind premium paywalls
- Reliability issues including crashes during setup/download and widgets not loading (white boxes)
- Unfulfilled promises about free features or fixes (delayed/upgraded options not delivered)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1522087125)