Greg - SiteOrigin

Simple Options lets your theme define a set of options. It creates a light weight options panel that looks just like WordPress itself. Nothing fancy here.

Simple Options

Gives your blog a set of options which are defined by the theme.

Davinder Singh

WordPress Custom Settings enables you to save your custom settings like social media links some html block a small text line upload a logo and file etc.
To minimal use of widgets it gives you a options to create sections for categorization of your fields you can edit delete your sections also give you a interface to add multiple fields and manage them.you can call all the fields using shortcode as well.
<a href="https://github.com/honeydhi/WordPress-Theme-Settings/issues" title="Support WPC on GitHub" rel="nofollow ugc">Support WPC on GitHub</a> your support is valuable.
Major features in WordPress Custom Settings include:
<ul>
<li>User and Developer friendly</li>
<li>Section Management available</li>
<li>Field Management available</li>
<li>shortcode to get values</li>
</ul>

WordPress Custom Settings

Installed on WordPress 4.4 and got the following error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/delamanorg/public_html/wp-content/plugins/custom-settings/wpc.php on line 88



Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

WordPress Custom Settings enables to save your custom settings like social media links some html block , text line, upload logo and files easily.

Simple Options vs WordPress Custom Settings