WidgetAIBlog
- How to use a custom HTTP API with WidgetAI
Put your own JSON API's data on your iPhone Home Screen without writing a WidgetKit app or a Scriptable script. Paste a URL in chat, and WidgetAI builds the widget.
- Health widgets for iPhone: steps, sleep, and activity rings on your home screen
See your steps, sleep, activity rings, and heart rate on your iPhone Home Screen. WidgetAI reads Apple Health on-device, with your permission, and you design it by chatting.
- Put your GitHub contributions graph on your iPhone home screen
Get your GitHub contributions graph as an iPhone Home Screen widget. WidgetAI reads your public profile by username, renders the commit heatmap, and lets you restyle it in chat.
- iPhone battery widget: see your battery, your way
Build a custom iPhone battery widget by describing it in chat: a ring gauge, a fill bar, or a big number. Plus the honest reason every battery widget moves in 5% steps.
- How to put a Bitcoin (or any crypto) price widget on your iPhone home screen
Build a Bitcoin or Ethereum price widget for your iPhone Home Screen by describing it in chat. Add a sparkline, coin logo, and green/red price coloring.
- What iOS widgets can't do (and what to build instead)
The honest list of iPhone widget limitations — no buttons, no real-time updates, 5% battery steps — the reasons behind each, and what widgets are genuinely great at.
- How iOS widget refresh actually works (and why your widget looks stale)
Why your iPhone widget isn't updating: how WidgetKit renders a timeline ahead of time, the daily refresh budget, why live values freeze, and how to fix it.
- Widgetsmith alternatives in 2026 (and when to build your own instead)
An honest tour of Widgetsmith alternatives in 2026 — Widgy, Color Widgets, ScreenKit, WidgetClub — plus when describing a widget in chat beats hunting for a preset.
- The best iPhone home screen widgets in 2026
Our category-by-category picks for the best iPhone Home Screen widgets in 2026: weather, calendar, health, battery, photos, news, finance, and developer.
- Widgets, designed by chat: how AI builds your iPhone widget
How the AI widget maker in WidgetAI works: describe a widget, it designs the layout, wires live data, and shows a preview you refine by chatting. iPhone.
- Introducing WidgetAI
WidgetAI is now on the App Store. Build a custom iPhone Home Screen widget by describing it in chat, then refine it by talking. Here's what it does today.