thePlus.so vs WidgetBox.app
A thank you to the people who built it, and a hand with the empty frames it left behind.
Free plan, no card required.
WidgetBox.app permanently shut down on 24 December 2025. Every widget it served stopped rendering the same day, and the domain no longer resolves in DNS at all. If your Notion page has blank or erroring embed frames in it, this is almost certainly why.
Before it closed, WidgetBox.app offered around 15 widget types: digital and analog clocks, several calendar styles, weather, timers, life progress bars, daily quotes, and reaction widgets like like buttons, upvote buttons and page view counters. Pricing was a free Basic Box capped at 5 widgets, Pro Box at $1.49 a month and Premium Box at $2.99. It was inexpensive and it was well liked, which is why so many pages broke at once.
There is nothing left to compare against, so this page is about getting your workspace back.
What actually broke, and why nothing can fix it
A Notion embed is just a URL in an iframe. Your page was never storing the widget. It asked WidgetBox.app for it every single time the page loaded. When that server stopped answering, the block had nothing to render, so you get a blank or erroring frame. Nothing inside Notion is damaged and nothing you did caused it. The only repair is to point the block at a URL that still answers, which means rebuilding the widget somewhere that is still running.
Rebuilding without touching your layout
You do not need to rebuild the page, only the embeds. Work one block at a time: create the replacement widget on thePlus.so, copy its embed link, then open the broken Notion block and paste the new URL over the old one. The block keeps its position, its width and its place in your layout. Most people replace a whole dashboard in ten or fifteen minutes, and you can do it in any order, since nothing else breaks while you work.
The honest part: our catalogue is different
We are not a drop in clone and it would be a disservice to imply otherwise. thePlus.so does Image, Text and Announcement widgets, and does them deeply: 1,500+ Google Fonts, carousels, full styling control. If what you loved about WidgetBox.app was its analog clock or its weather widget, we do not have that, and you should look elsewhere for those specific ones. If you were using it for text, banners, counters and images, that is squarely what we build.
Choosing something that will still be here
Any tool can close, ours included. The most you can do before you rebuild is look at what a company is willing to show you. We publish our revenue and usage at /open and our uptime at /uptime. None of it is a guarantee. It is evidence, and you can go and check it.
Credit where it is due
A comparison page that only flatters its author is not worth reading. Here is the honest side.
- WidgetBox.app was good, and at $1.49 a month it was cheaper than anything else around.
- Its clock and calendar widgets were a step above what most tools offered at the time.
- The people who built it are not villains. Small tools close, and most give less notice than they did.
- If you paid for it, none of what follows is your fault.
thePlus.so is worth a look if
Your Notion page has blank embed frames where widgets used to be.
You want text, banner, counter or image widgets rebuilt today.
You want to see a vendor's real numbers before you commit.
You would sooner pay once than carry another monthly subscription.
What thePlus.so costs
No per-widget upgrades. One plan, everything on.
1,500+ Google Fonts, 5 MB uploads, basic analytics. Forever.
Or $60/yr (~$5/mo). Unlimited widgets, full analytics, logo removal.
Pay once, keep it. Capped at 1,000 seats, with no renewals ever.
Questions
Is WidgetBox.app coming back?
No. It shut down on 24 December 2025 and the domain stopped resolving in DNS entirely. There is no service left to restore, and no way to recover widgets that were hosted there.
Can I export my widgets from WidgetBox.app?
Unfortunately not. The widgets were rendered by their servers and never stored in your Notion page, so when the servers went offline the configurations went with them. Rebuilding is the only route.
Did I lose anything inside Notion?
No. Your pages, text, databases and layout are all intact. Only the embedded frames are empty, because they point at a server that no longer answers. Replacing the URL in each block restores the page.
Does thePlus.so have clocks and weather widgets like WidgetBox.app did?
Not today. We build Image, Text and Announcement widgets. If a clock or weather display is what you need, another tool will serve you better and we would sooner say so than waste your time.
How do I know thePlus.so will not do the same thing?
You cannot know for certain about any tool, and that is the real lesson here. What you can do is check the evidence. We publish live revenue and usage at /open and real uptime at /uptime, and our $149 lifetime plan means you are not renting access month to month.
Get your page working again
Build a replacement widget, swap one URL, and the blank frame is gone. Free to start, no card.
9,200+ people · 1.2M+ widget uses · see the real numbers
WidgetBox.app is closed now, but it came into the world to shape a community, and it did. People who had never written a line of code used it to make a Notion page feel like their own.
They tried. They set out to add something to the community and to make the world a little better, and they went about it by building productivity tools. That effort counts, whatever happened to the company in the end.
Thank you for everything you put into productivity tools, and into the people who used them.
Ugur KILCI, founder of thePlus.so