Aesthetic Widgets and Wallpapers for iPhone

Yes. Wallby is a free download and every widget type, every widget size and every Lock Screen slot works without paying. Six of the twelve themes and seven of the thirteen wallpapers are free as well.

The free version shows advertising and puts a small Wallby mark on the widgets and wallpapers you save. The optional Wallby Pro subscription removes both and unlocks the remaining themes and wallpaper packs.

Yes. This is the part a lot of customization apps are vague about, so here it is plainly. A banner sits at the bottom of the widget studio, the wallpaper studio and the settings screen, and a full screen ad can appear at most once per app session.

That full screen ad never appears during your first three saves, never closer than three counted actions apart and never less than three minutes apart. Advertising is loaded by Google's ad kit, which asks for your consent first. Wallby Pro removes it completely: for a subscriber the ad kit is never started.

Wallby Pro is an auto renewing subscription offered weekly or yearly. In the United States it is 4.99 USD per week or 29.99 USD per year. Prices differ by country and the App Store shows your price before you confirm anything.

Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings.

No, and no app on iOS can. There is no API that lets an app place a widget, change your wallpaper or replace another app's icon. Any app that claims otherwise is showing you a fake confirmation.

Wallby does everything up to that last step: it draws the widget, renders the wallpaper at your screen size and saves it to Photos, then shows you the exact taps. Adding a widget takes about ten seconds.

Eight types: clock, date, countdown, quote, photo, battery, calendar and monogram. The clock comes in three styles, Digital, Stacked and Minimal, and uses the system time so it never freezes on an old value.

Every type is available to free users. Widgets come in three Home Screen sizes and three Lock Screen shapes, and each design you save gets its own name so the widget picker does not show you a list of identical entries.

No. There is no account, no login and no analytics or tracking kit in the app. Photos you pick for a photo widget or a wallpaper are processed on your iPhone, and Wallby asks only for permission to add images to your library, not to read it.

The one part of Wallby that talks to the network is the advertising, which is loaded by Google's ad kit in the free version and asks for your consent first. Wallby Pro removes it.

Wallby is an iPhone app and needs iOS 17.0 or later. The current version is 1.1.0.

Because that is the only mechanism iOS gives anyone. A custom icon on the Home Screen is a Shortcuts bookmark that runs an Open App action, not a real replacement of the app's icon.

The practical cost is that these icons do not show notification badges. That is an iOS limitation rather than a bug in Wallby, and it is worth knowing before you rebuild a whole Home Screen.