Updated July 21, 2026~5 min read

WidgetBox Notion Widgets: What Happened, and What to Use Instead

WidgetBox permanently shut down on December 24, 2025. Its clocks, calendars, weather widgets, and reaction buttons stopped rendering in every Notion page that embedded them — and the domain has since gone dark completely: as of July 21, 2026, widgetbox.app no longer resolves in DNS at all, so there is nothing left to load. This page maps each WidgetBox widget to a working replacement you can embed for free, so you can fix your dashboard in one pass.

Short answer

For WidgetBox’s core widgets — clocks, calendars, weather, timers, life progress — Widgets For Notion carries direct replacements that are free to embed, across four visual styles, with no account needed. Indify’s free tier (6 widgets) is another option if you’d rather stay in their ecosystem. WidgetBox’s reaction widgets (like button, upvotes, page views) have no good replacement from any provider right now.

Try the replacements before you swap anything

These are live widgets running on this page — not screenshots. They are the same embeds you would paste into Notion, rendering right now in the same kind of iframe. The clock is ticking; the weather is real.

Sleek Blue Digital Clock

Replaces WidgetBox's Digital Clock

Sleek Blue Calendar

Replaces Simple Calendar / Calendar 2

Sleek Blue Weather

Replaces WidgetBox's Weather widget

Widget-by-widget replacement map

WidgetBox’s catalog below is reconstructed from the Internet Archive’s last full capture of widgetbox.app (November 17, 2025). For each widget, the table shows the closest working replacement — including the honest gaps.

WidgetBox widgetReplacement
Digital ClockSleek Blue Digital Clock — or Soft Pink Digital Clock, Retro Style Digital Clock, Ghibli Style Clock
Analog ClockSleek Blue Analog Clock
Gradient Clock / Neubrutalism ClockSleek Blue Flip Clock — or Sleek Blue Text ClockNo 1:1 style match — these are the closest statement-piece clocks in our catalog.
Simple Calendar / Calendar 2Sleek Blue Calendar — or Retro Style Calendar, Ghibli Style Calendar
WeatherSleek Blue Weather
TimersSleek Blue Timer — or Sleek Blue Pomodoro Timer, Ghibli Style Timer
Life ProgressSleek Blue Progress Bar — or Sleek Blue Life CalendarLive day, week, month, and year bars; the Life Calendar adds the whole-life memento-mori grid.
Word of the Day / Phrase of the DayNo direct equivalent in the catalog. The AI widget generator can build a custom daily-quote widget — describe it in plain English (paid credit packs from $0.99).
Like Button / Upvote Button / Page ViewsNo equivalent — we don't carry reaction or analytics widgets. No major Notion widget provider currently fills this niche well.

What WidgetBox offered vs what’s available now

WidgetBox shipped roughly 15 widget types when it shut down, priced as a subscription: a free Basic Box capped at 5 widgets, Pro Box at $1.49/month, and Premium Box at $2.99/month. Widgets For Notion ships 65 widgets in total, 65 of them in the four style collections listed below — all free to embed, with no account, no active-widget cap, and no subscription.

WidgetBox (15 widget types, discontinued)

  • Digital Clock
  • Analog Clock
  • Gradient Clock
  • Neubrutalism Clock
  • Simple Calendar
  • Calendar 2
  • Weather
  • Timers
  • Life Progress
  • Word of the Day
  • Phrase of the Day
  • Like Button
  • Upvote Button
  • Page Views
  • AI Daily Learning / Daily Vocab

Source: widgetbox.app via the Internet Archive (November 17, 2025)

Widgets For Notion (65 widgets, free to embed)

The pricing lesson from the shutdown

WidgetBox charged $1.49–$2.99/month. When it closed, subscribers lost both the subscription and the widgets — there was nothing to keep, because access was rented. That hosting risk exists with every widget service, including this one, but the pricing model changes your exposure: our ready-made widgets are free to embed, so there’s no recurring fee compounding for as long as the service lives. If you’re rebuilding a dashboard after the shutdown, it’s worth picking replacements that don’t lock you into another subscription.

When a free alternative is the right choice

  • You want to stay at $0. Widgets For Notion’s whole 65-widget catalog is free to embed with no account or active-widget cap — the most direct free replacement for WidgetBox’s core widgets. Indify’s free plan (up to 6 active widgets) is an alternative if you’d rather stay in their ecosystem; see our Indify comparison.
  • The content you embedded lives in another service. Calendars, music, and video never needed a widget provider — Notion embeds Google Calendar, Spotify, and YouTube natively, free.
  • You used the reaction widgets.Like buttons, upvotes, and page-view counters have no strong replacement from any current provider — free or paid. Don’t pay anyone expecting parity there.

How to fix your broken WidgetBox embeds

  1. Find every broken embed

    Broken WidgetBox embeds show as blank or erroring frames. Check your dashboard pages first, then any template you’ve duplicated — WidgetBox widgets were featured in hundreds of Notion templates, so they often hide inside pages you didn’t build yourself.

  2. Pick a replacement from the map above

    Match the widget type — browse our clock, countdown, and weather widget pages, or all widget types — then choose the style that fits your page — every widget has a live preview, so you can check it against your Notion theme before embedding. If you ran several WidgetBox widgets, a single collection replaces them all in one matching style — free.

  3. Swap the embed URL in place

    Click the dead embed block, open the ⋯ menu, choose “Replace”, and paste the new widget URL — Notion swaps the iframe without disturbing your page layout. Or delete the block and type /embed to start fresh.

Good to know

  • Every Widgets For Notion widget is a hosted iframe — paste the URL into Notion’s /embed block, no code or extension required.
  • Widget settings (color, units, time zone, intervals) live in the embed URL itself, so different Notion pages can show the same widget configured differently.
  • WidgetBox catalog and pricing reconstructed from the Internet Archive’s November 17, 2025 capture of widgetbox.app. Re-checked directly against widgetbox.app on 2026-07-21: the domain no longer resolves in DNS — neither the apex nor the www host returns a record — confirming the service is permanently offline.

Frequently asked questions

What happened to WidgetBox?

WidgetBox announced it would permanently shut down on December 24, 2025, and the shutdown went through. Every widget it hosted stopped rendering at that point, which is why WidgetBox embeds across Notion pages went blank. The domain itself has since been abandoned. In June 2026 it still resolved to a generic parked-domain page; as of July 21, 2026, widgetbox.app and www.widgetbox.app no longer resolve in DNS at all — there is no server left to answer. That is about as final as it gets.

Why did my WidgetBox widgets stop working in Notion?

The embeds point at widgetbox.app URLs, and that server no longer serves widgets. Notion keeps the embed block on your page, but the iframe inside it has nothing to load — so you see a blank frame, an error, or a shutdown notice. The fix is replacing each embed URL with a working widget from another provider.

Is WidgetBox coming back?

There's no indication of that. The shutdown was described as permanent, the service has stayed offline since December 2025, and the company let the widgetbox.app domain lapse to a parking page and has now let it drop out of DNS entirely — not the behaviour of a service planning to return. Treat any WidgetBox embeds still on your pages as permanently broken.

What is the best WidgetBox alternative for Notion?

It depends on which widgets you used. Widgets For Notion covers WidgetBox's most popular categories — clocks, calendars, weather, timers, and life progress — across four visual styles (Sleek Blue, Soft Pink, Retro pixel-art, and Ghibli watercolor), all free to embed with no account or active-widget cap. Indify is another option: its free tier covers up to 6 active widgets including a clock, countdown, and weather. WidgetBox's reaction widgets (like buttons, upvotes, page views) have no good replacement anywhere right now.

Is there a free WidgetBox alternative?

Yes — Widgets For Notion's entire 65-widget catalog is free to embed with no account or active-widget cap, which covers most of WidgetBox's core widgets. Indify's free plan (up to 6 active widgets) is another option for basic clocks, countdowns, and weather. For anything Notion can embed natively — Google Calendar, Spotify, YouTube — you don't need a widget service at all; see our embed guides.

How do I replace a WidgetBox clock in Notion?

Click the broken embed block in Notion, open the ⋯ menu, and choose "Replace" (or just delete the block and type /embed). Paste the new widget's URL — for a clock, pick from our five styles: digital, analog, flip, text, or world clock. The new widget renders in the same spot at the same size.

Could Widgets For Notion shut down too?

Any hosted widget service can shut down — WidgetBox proved that, and the same is true of Indify, Apption, and us. What we can say honestly: our ready-made widgets are free to embed (no subscription to lose), the catalog is actively growing as of mid-2026, and widgets are static self-contained embeds that are cheap to keep online. We'd rather name the risk than pretend it doesn't exist.

Rebuild your dashboard in one pass

All 65widgets are free to embed, work with Notion’s native /embed block, and need no account — no subscription to outlive.

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