Aura: Aesthetic Widget Maker
What is Aura?
Aura provides home screen widgets, wallpapers, icon packs and matching themes.
Aura is a Utilities app for customizing a home screen with widgets, wallpapers, icon packs and coordinated themes. It includes a live editor, search, favourites, recents, saved designs, and local backup and restore.
Pricing. Aura is free to download, with in-app purchases on the App Store.
Good for
- Adding clock, calendar or countdown widgets to a home screen
- Setting a wallpaper on the home screen, lock screen or both
- Applying a matching wallpaper and icon style
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Why this app is in C tier
C tier follows from that score within this list. The full explanation, as data.
Aura scores 62 out of 100: rating 42, rating count 43, App Store search rank 63, update recency 100. The four parts are averaged and C tier follows from that score within this list.
Description
Make your home screen yours. Aura brings aesthetic widgets for your home screen and lock screen, plus wallpapers, icon art and home-screen kits that match.
Widgets on your iPhone
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- 12 styles: clocks, countdowns, calendars, daily words, an anniversary and a photo frame
- Add Aura from your home screen's widget gallery, then pick your design with Edit Widget
- Small, medium and large on the home screen, plus lock screen widgets (iOS 17 or later)
- Countdowns for your own event and date, updated every day
- Daily Words brings a new quote each day
- Live editor: font, colour, gradient and size, with an instant preview
Home-screen kits
- Six kits, each an Aura art wallpaper, widgets styled to match and an icon pack
- Save kit puts the wallpaper and the icons in Photos and adds the widgets to Aura in your widget gallery
- A checklist shows what each step did
Wallpapers sized for your iPhone
- 20 wallpapers, including eight Aura art pieces, two of them made for OLED screens
- Saved to Photos in one tap; set it from there for your lock screen and home screen
- Rendered at your screen's own resolution
Icon art for your home screen
- Five styles: pastel, neon dark, clean line, 3D glossy and minimal mono
- Icons save to Photos; use one with the Shortcuts app, and Aura shows you how
Made for browsing
- Search across every widget, wallpaper, icon pack and kit
- Favourites and your saved designs in Mine
- Local backup and restore, widget photos included
Private by design
Your designs stay on your device. No account, no sign-up. An internet connection is only used to show ads.
Premium packs unlock for good with one short, optional video, or all at once with Aura Pro.
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Questions about Aura
Does Aura work offline?
The listing says Aura works offline. It says an internet connection is only used to show ads.
Do I need an account to use Aura?
No. There is no account or sign-up.
Can I edit the look of widgets?
Yes. The live editor lets you change the font, colour, gradient and size, with the preview updating instantly.
Is Aura free?
Aura is free to download, with in-app purchases.
Is Aura right for me?
Aura is built for adding clock, calendar or countdown widgets to a home screen, setting a wallpaper on the home screen, lock screen or both, applying a matching wallpaper and icon style. It sits in the widget makers list on AppTierList.
Is Aura worth it?
Aura is C tier, ranked #39 of 40 widget maker apps with a score of 62 out of 100, from a 3.0 App Store rating across 2 ratings. 38 apps rank above it in the same list.
How does Aura compare to Widgets Maker?
Aura is C tier at 62; Widgets Maker is C tier at 63. Widgets Maker ranks higher. Aura is free to download, with in-app purchases, Widgets Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases.
How often is Aura updated?
Aura was updated 10 days ago, which counts in its favour.
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All the facts
Ranking
- Lists
- Widget Makers (C tier, #39) · Icon Customization (#44, beyond the tiered top) · iPhone Themes (#69, beyond the tiered top) · Home Screen Customization (#93, beyond the tiered top)
- Tier
- C (Situational)
- Score
- 62 / 100
- Rank in list
- #39 of 46
- Ranking certainty
- early: few ratings or search ranks so far
Ratings
- App Store rating
- 3.0 out of 5, every App Store country
- Ratings
- 2
App
- Price
- Free + IAP
- App Store category
- Utilities
- Current version
- (10 days ago)
- Size
- 81 MB
- Requires
- iOS 15.0 or later
- Age rating
- 4+
- Languages
- 9
- Runs on
- iPhone, iPad
Links
- Developer pages
- Website · Support · Privacy policy
- Maker
- not verified
- As data
- JSON · why it ranks here
App Store data read · ranking