thePlus.so vs Widgetly.co
They count your views. We do not.
Free plan, no card required.
Side by side
2 of these 9 rows go to Widgetly.co. We marked them that way on purpose.
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Views per month
The ceiling most people do not notice until it bites
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100 free, up to 250,000
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No limit on any plan
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Free plan
Both give two widgets, only one counts the loads
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2 widgets, 100 views
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2 widgets, unlimited views
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Widget types
They are broader and we will not spin it
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Around 21 types
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3 types
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Widget count
Ours is uncapped from the first paid plan
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20 on Basic, 200 on Ultimate
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Unlimited on Pro
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Entry paid price
Cheaper on their side
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EUR 3 a month
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$6 a month
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Pay once option
Their ladder only goes up
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Not offered
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$149 lifetime
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Fonts
Type control on every plan including free
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Not published
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1,500+ Google Fonts
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Status page
Neither of us is immune, only one of us shows you
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None
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Live uptime at /uptime
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Public revenue
So you can see whether we are healthy
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Not published
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Published at /open
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Pricing on both sides is checked against public sources and kept current. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
Start Free →Widgetly.co has a wider catalogue than we do. Around 21 widget types against our three, including counters, world clocks, KPI blocks, PayPal buttons and weather. If breadth is what you need, they win that and this page will not argue with it.
The thing to understand before you build on it is the view cap. Every Widgetly.co plan has three ceilings at once: how many widgets, how many apps, and how many times those widgets may be loaded. Free is 2 widgets and 100 views a month. Basic at EUR 3 a month allows 5,000 views per widget. Even Ultimate at EUR 7 a month stops at 250,000 views a month.
thePlus.so has no view counter anywhere. Pro is $6 a month for unlimited widgets with no traffic ceiling, the free plan's 2 widgets can be loaded as often as you like, and $149 buys it once and for good.
What happens when a page gets popular
View metering has a failure mode that does not show up while you are evaluating a tool. Put a Widgetly.co free widget on a Notion page that anyone actually visits and the 100 monthly views are gone in a couple of days, after which the widget stops serving. Move to Basic and you have 5,000 views per widget, which sounds generous until a template you published gets shared somewhere. The problem is not the number, it is that your widget's reliability now depends on your own traffic. Ours does not, because we never count the loads. A thePlus.so widget on a page with a million visits behaves exactly like one on a page with ten.
Breadth against depth, honestly stated
Widgetly.co ships around 21 widget types, we ship three. If you need a PayPal button, a KPI tile or a weather forecast, we do not have it and they do. What we put into those three types instead is depth: all 1,500+ Google Fonts on every plan including free, carousels with unlimited images, and full styling control, so a Text or Announcement widget can be made to look like part of your brand rather than like an embed. Pick on which of those two shapes matches your dashboard.
Three ceilings instead of one price
A Widgetly.co plan is not one number, it is three: widget count, app count and views. Working out which tier you need means predicting your own traffic, and getting it wrong means a widget quietly stops working. Our pricing has one line in it. $6 a month, or $60 a year, or $149 once, for unlimited widgets with no counters attached. Fewer widget types, but nothing to forecast and nothing to run out of.
Where Widgetly.co is the better pick
A comparison page that only flatters its author is not worth reading. Here is the honest side.
- Widgetly.co offers around 21 widget types. We offer three, so on breadth they are clearly ahead.
- They have widgets we simply do not: PayPal buttons, weather, KPI blocks, world clocks, time tracking.
- Their PageVault add on gates a Notion page so you can sell it. We have no equivalent.
- Their entry paid plan is EUR 3 a month, cheaper than our $6.
Choose thePlus.so if
Your Notion page gets real traffic and you do not want to meter it.
You publish templates that other people will load repeatedly.
Typography and brand control matter more to you than widget variety.
You want one price with no usage ceiling attached to it.
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
Does thePlus.so limit how many times a widget can load?
No. There is no view counter on any plan, including free. A widget on a page with heavy traffic behaves exactly the same as one nobody visits.
Does Widgetly.co have more widgets than thePlus.so?
Yes, considerably. Around 21 types against our three. If you need a PayPal button, weather, a KPI tile or a world clock, they have those and we do not.
Which is cheaper?
It depends on the plan. Their Basic is EUR 3 a month against our $6, so they are cheaper at entry, but Basic caps you at 20 widgets and 5,000 views per widget. Our $6 has no caps, and $149 buys it outright, which they do not offer at all.
Can I move my Widgetly.co widgets across?
Only for the types we build. Counters, buttons and clocks have no equivalent here. Text, banners and images do, and you rebuild those by hand in a couple of minutes each, then paste the new embed URL over the old one in Notion.
Try it before you decide
The free plan needs no card and takes about a minute. Build one widget, put it in a page, and see whether it feels right.
9,200+ people · 1.2M+ widget uses · see the real numbers