Beautiful Widgets Pro for Android – Review
On May 22, 2013
App Type: Android
Our rating:
By: LevelUp Studio
Version #: 5.2.1
Date Released:
Developer: LevelUp Studio
Price: 1.99
User Rating:I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: customization apps are very important to me. Being able to tweak your phone to look and feel different than the standard UI is a blessing, and Beautiful Widgets Pro helps do just that. And, there are external themes you can download for the app to customize it even further.
The Good
Beautiful Widgets Pro is just that: beautiful. I love having a well drawn, full screen weather and clock widget at my disposal, but that is just one of the many widgets you can add to your home screens. You can add a WIFI-toggle widget, or battery gauge widget, as well as just a clock or just a weather widget. There are plenty of options for each widget, as well as the ability to easily download themes for most of the widgets to fit the look you are looking for. All of the included themes look smooth and improve the appearance of your home screen, but the downloadable (and free) themes look even better.
The Bad
Unfortunately, there aren’t more widgets available. I would have liked to have seen a customizable 4×1 toggle widget, but all that is currently available is a 1×1 toggle widget. A customizable favorite contacts and/or social media widgets would have been nice, also, instead of the standard ones that are included with most Android phones (they bore me). The app also is somewhat of a battery hog.
The Ugly Truth
Beautiful Widgets Pro is a great addition to customization apps on Google Play, and is sure to continue to be one of the most downloaded. It’s worth the $1.99 already, but I’d like to see more widgets added in the future.
Quick Take
Value:Medium.
Would I Buy Again:Yes.
Learning Curve:Low.
Who Is It For:Customizers.
What I Like:Great looking themes.
What I Don't Like:No 4x1 toggle widget.
Final Statement:Beautiful Widgets Pro is a good addition to your customization apps, and the awesome full screen weather/clock widget is worth the $1.99, alone.
?NEW? FREE Version available (search for "Beautiful Widgets Free"), that can be unlocked with the help of GetJar Golds, that you earn just by installing apps!
Beautiful Widgets was the first paid app reaching 1 million of downloads. It has been Google Editor's Choice for more than a year, and more then 3 years in the top #5 paid applications in the Android Play Store (previously Android Market).
- Android Central: "We love Beautiful Widgets"
- AndroidGuys: "We’re already set to rename the app “Simply Stunning Widgets”"
- Android and Me: "Beautiful Widgets is one of the essential must-have Android apps, and has been for quite some time now. If you still haven’t managed to buy the app, there’s no time to waste."
- ZDNet: "The strength of Android is the ability to make the interface very personal, and Beautiful Widgets is the daddy of them all."
- FrAndroid: "Beautiful Widgets is excellent"
Multiple widgets are available for displaying a clock, the weather, your battery percentage, the current date or accessing some system settings more easily with toggles.
Numerous layouts offer your widgets different faces for the same functionality.
More than a thousand free themes to beautify your widgets. You will be able to do multiple combinations with clock, weather, battery and toggle themes. You can discover the themes on the web store : https://market.beautiful-widgets.com/
Each widget is independent, allowing you to create the same widget for different locations, different themes or layouts.
If customization is not enough for you, discover :
- Weather information by Accuweather or Weather Underground
- Beautiful 5 days forecast with stunning animations
- Multiple language forecast
- Localized time, so you always know the weather and local time of any place in the world
- 12 Hours forecast
- Moon-phases, current and a forecast for the next 4/5 phases
- Weather alerts (USA only)
- Fancy Weather Live Wallpaper OpenGL accelerated which displays the weather live on your wallpaper, with many effects, physics and interactions!
- Have an eye on your current weather thanks to the great Jelly Bean notifications. Either display the weather icon or the temperature in the status bar.
- Android Holo look & feel
- Web Skin Market with cloud to device communication: browse themes from your computer and apply it directly to your phone along with a new wallpaper!
- Web Skin Mixer: create your own customized skins from the elements of the others themes (https://market.beautiful-widgets.com/skinmixer/explanations)
- HD (High definition) themes
- Nice toggle widgets for Wifi, Bluetooth, Mobile, Brightness, GPS (shortcut), Silent, Vibrate, Plane Mode, Rotate and a Timed Silence!
- Animated weather when your phone is unlocked
Much more to come. You should know that Beautiful Widgets has been created 3 years ago, and it is still updated very frequently. So no hesitation, purchase it and express yourself!
You can submit your own themes from : https://levelupstudio.com/skincreator
*** Important notes ***
We allow more than 15 minutes for the refund policy because we think it is too short. You can contact us from Google Checkout within 24 hours with an explanation on why you are not interested in keeping it. Warning: this do not apply during sales and promotions!
This application is not working on the SD Card because it contains widgets, so please make sure you have enough free space on your device.
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