Updated June 10, 2026~5 min read
WidgetBox Alternatives: Replace Your Broken Notion Widgets
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 — widgetbox.app now serves only a shutdown notice. This page maps each WidgetBox widget to a working replacement 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 at $0.99 each, one-time, across three visual styles. If you only need a couple of basic widgets and prefer free, Indify’s free tier (6 widgets) is the better fit. WidgetBox’s reaction widgets (like button, upvotes, page views) have no good replacement from any provider right now.
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 widget | Replacement |
|---|---|
| Digital Clock | Sleek Blue Digital Clock — or Retro Style Clock, Ghibli Style Clock |
| Analog Clock | Sleek Blue Analog Clock |
| Gradient Clock / Neubrutalism Clock | Sleek 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 2 | Sleek Blue Calendar — or Retro Style Calendar, Ghibli Style Calendar |
| Weather | Sleek Blue Weather |
| Timers | Sleek Blue Timer — or Sleek Blue Pomodoro Timer, Ghibli Style Timer |
| Life Progress | Sleek Blue Life CalendarFull memento-mori grid rather than a single progress bar. |
| Word of the Day / Phrase of the Day | No direct equivalent in the catalog. The AI widget generator can build a custom daily-quote widget — describe it in plain English, $0.99 per save. |
| Like Button / Upvote Button / Page Views | No 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 22 widgets across three collections, each a one-time $0.99 purchase (or $3.99 for a full collection bundle).
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 (22 widgets)
Sleek Blue (15)
- Sleek Blue Analog Clock
- Sleek Blue Digital Clock
- Sleek Blue Flip Clock
- Sleek Blue Text Clock
- Sleek Blue World Clock
- Sleek Blue Calendar
- Sleek Blue Weather
- Sleek Blue Pomodoro Timer
- Sleek Blue Timer
- Sleek Blue Time Until / Countdown
- Sleek Blue Todo List
- Sleek Blue Water Intake Tracker
- Sleek Blue Life Calendar
- Sleek Blue Counter
- Sleek Blue Calculator
Retro Pixel-Art (4)
Ghibli Watercolor (3)
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 risk exists with every hosted widget service, including this one, but the pricing model changes what you lose: a one-time $0.99 widget that ran for years cost you $0.99 total, while a subscription compounds for as long as the service lives. If you’re rebuilding a dashboard after the shutdown, it’s worth picking replacements you’d be comfortable having paid for in hindsight.
When a free alternative is the right choice
- You used WidgetBox’s free tier and want to stay at $0. Indify’s free plan covers up to 6 active widgets — clock, countdown, counter, quotes, and basic weather included. That’s the closest like-for-like free replacement. (If you outgrow it, 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
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.
Pick a replacement from the map above
Match the widget type, then choose the style that fits your page — every widget has a live preview before purchase, so you can check it against your Notion theme. If you ran several WidgetBox widgets, a collection bundle ($3.99 one-time) replaces them in one matching style.
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; shutdown status verified directly against widgetbox.app on 2026-06-10.
Frequently asked questions
What happened to WidgetBox?
WidgetBox announced it would permanently shut down on December 24, 2025, and the shutdown went through — widgetbox.app now serves only a notice that the service has been permanently discontinued. Every widget it hosted stopped rendering at that point, which is why WidgetBox embeds across Notion pages went blank.
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 site's own notice describes the shutdown as permanent, and it has stayed offline since December 2025. 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 (5 styles), calendars (3 styles), weather, timers, and life progress — at $0.99 per widget, one-time. Indify is the strongest free 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?
Indify's free plan (up to 6 active widgets) is the most direct free replacement for basic clocks, countdowns, and weather. Apption also lists free embeddable widgets. 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 widgets are one-time purchases rather than subscriptions, 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 22 widgets are previewable before purchase, work with Notion’s native /embed block, and stay yours for life once unlocked — no subscription to outlive.