12 Great Apps to Customize Your iPhone Home Screen Design

Did you know you can personalize your iPhone home screen with widgets and custom app icons? What's your aesthetic — pastels, minimalism, or hand-drawn cartoons? You can find an app for any of these preferences.

Let’s take a look at the best iPhone apps for customizing your Home screen theme and find your ideal style. While most of them have subscription models and in-app purchases, there are still free iPhone themes you can download.

Let's talk about some of the options and additional features you can expect from these apps.

12. Widgetsmith

With over 400,000 ratings on the App Store, Widgetsmith is an incredibly popular app for custom home screen icons. It’s one of the best iPhone theme apps out there. You don’t have to worry about being a tech geek to get creative with Widgetsmith, as its interface is very user-friendly.

The app gives you great control over how you want to personalize your home screen. With a large collection of customizable widgets and templates, you're sure to get the look you want on your home screen. You can also create your own gradient wallpapers.

Widgets can also be scheduled to appear on your home screen based on rules you set.

11. Color Widgets

Loved by over 30 million users, most of the themes at Color Widgets feature flat designs and minimalist icons, helping you feel balanced while still keeping your iPhone stylish. Main theme categories include Minimal, Neutral, and Gradient, but there are also more unique options like Gaming, Anime, and Pride.

If you're looking to add a little color to your home screen, Color Widgets has a great selection of beautiful pre-made widgets for you. Explore fun options like Countdown, Quotes, and more to customize your iPhone.

10. Brass

Brass is a very popular app, ranking number one in the Graphics and Design category of the App Store in 36 countries. Brass has hundreds of themes to choose from, such as Nature, Neon, and Anime. You can find seasonal themes like Fall and Winter, as well as holiday themes like Christmas. Most of them are free iPhone themes.

For useful iPhone widgets , like Weather and Calendar, the app also offers transparency options—you just need to give the Brass app a blank Home screen screenshot so the widget's background can blend in seamlessly.

9. ScreenKit

ScreenKit is another well-received app. It boasts over 5,000 icons, 500 themes, and a variety of widgets, allowing you to customize your iPhone home screen with widgets and app icons in a powerful way. When you first launch ScreenKit, the app prompts you to choose your style and preferences. It then presents you with a list of personalized themes based on the options you’ve selected.

ScreenKit offers classic aesthetic themes like Minimalist, Pastel, and Solid Color. However, you'll also find specialty options like Kawaii Anime and Harry Potter, if you're a fan of these shows and books.

8. Aesthetic Kit

Aesthetic Kit’s cool themes include Neon, Retro, Music, and many more. You can check out themes created by other Aesthetic Kit users and vote for your favorites. If nothing really catches your fancy, you can start with a blank canvas, create your own iPhone theme for free, and if you want, share it with others.

In addition to themes and widgets, the app also offers aesthetic keyboard styles for you, adding another special touch when you want to use an app to customize your iPhone. You can also download unique fonts and kaomoji from the app to complete your look.

7. Photo Widget

Photo Widget is the perfect combination of simplicity and cuteness. Tired of seeing the same colorful themes over and over again? Check out these whimsical cartoons and bring that playful childlike imagination back into your everyday life. Photo Widget offers a mix of free and premium iPhone themes.

Browse through the list of Photo Widget themes and you will see the eyes of adorable characters looking at you. They are sure to warm your heart every time you unlock your iPhone, putting you in a good mood every time you see your home screen.

6. Themify

Themify offers custom iPhone themes ranging from soft colors to modern hues for your home screen. From popular pastels to paintings, you're sure to find a theme that fits your style. If you don't want to completely change the look of your home screen, you can choose to just download icon packs.

In addition to themes and widgets, you can also get stunning live wallpapers and still images from Themify. The app offers additional Ultra HD image options to use on the lock screen.

5. Widgy Widget

If you love the uniqueness of user-generated content, you’ll love what Widgy Widget has to offer. There are a ton of widget options to peruse. When you tap on an option that catches your eye, a brief summary will give you the widget’s author name and time of modification, along with additional data and layers used to create the widget.

Learning about the effort that went into a widget makes deciding what to display on your iPhone home screen that much more personal. If a particular individual’s design appeals to you, you can simply tap the More By This Uploader button to explore other widgets they’ve created.

4. Themes

The Themes app offers the usual theme categories like Minimalist, Cartoon, and Nature. But you’ll also find more unique options that aren’t available in some of the other apps on this list, like Architecture, Subjects, and Cyberpunk.

If you don't want to overhaul your entire iPhone home screen, you can choose to download the theme's custom icon pack, widgets, and wallpapers separately.

3. App Icons

App Icons is a simple, easy-to-use app for quickly changing your home screen. From nature-inspired styles to minimalist black-and-white options, scroll to find a ready-to-install theme. Some iPhone themes are free, while others require a fee.

The app also has a variety of Live Wallpapers, organized into categories like Water, Cities, Fire, and Landscapes.

2. Icon Themer

Icon Themer’s themes are mostly hand-drawn, festive, and solid color schemes. Most of them have a sweet, soothing feel. There are fewer theme options than popular apps like Brass or ScreenKit. However, if you hate sifting through a bunch of colorful themes just to find a simple, beautiful design, Icon Themer is a good app for you.

The app offers both free and paid iPhone themes, but if you’re not satisfied with the options available, the app also has a large collection of icons to help you create your own themes.

1. WidgetBox

Like Icon Themer, the appeal of WidgetBox is that it doesn’t overwhelm you with too many options. The app offers about 10 classic themes, like dark, white, classic, and monochrome options, like yellow. You can also create your own widgets.

The designs provided are clean and simple, so they will match any iPhone wallpaper you have easily. You can also get custom keyboards and change your iPhone charging animation with WidgetBox.