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How to put a Bitcoin (or any crypto) price widget on your iPhone home screen

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You want the current Bitcoin price where you can see it without opening an app. iOS doesn't ship a crypto widget, and most exchange apps only give you their own fixed tile. WidgetAI takes a different route: you describe the widget you want in a chat, and it builds it. This post walks through making a crypto price widget you'll actually keep on your Home Screen.

The fastest path

Install WidgetAI from the App Store, open it, and either start from the crypto template or just type what you want. Something like:

a Bitcoin price widget with a sparkline

The AI reads that, builds a widget with the live price and a small trend line, and shows it to you. If it looks right, you add it to your Home Screen like any other widget. If it doesn't, you keep talking until it does. There's no layout tool to learn and nothing to drag around. For more on what happens between your message and the finished widget, see how the AI builds your widget.

Switching coins is a sentence

WidgetAI has a built-in crypto connector, and it ships tracking Bitcoin by default. To follow a different coin, you don't dig through settings — you ask:

track Ethereum instead

The AI rewires the widget's data source for you, and the price, chart, and any logo update to match. The same works for other coins the connector supports. Want to go back? "Show Bitcoin again." Because you're editing in plain language, changing what a widget tracks is as quick as changing your mind.

Make it yours

A price on its own is fine, but the point of building your own widget is that it looks the way you want. A few things you can ask for:

  • A chart of recent movement. A sparkline is the compact default, but you can ask for a line chart if you want something more prominent. "Add a line chart of the last few hours."
  • The coin's logo. Crypto token logos are built in, so "put the Bitcoin logo next to the price" just works — no hunting for an image.
  • Price-change coloring. WidgetAI supports data-driven colors through rules, so the number can turn green when the coin is up and red when it's down. "Make the price green when it's up and red when it's down."
  • Gradients and dark-mode-aware colors. You can ask for a gradient background or colors that adapt to light and dark mode, so the widget sits naturally on your Home Screen in either.

Each of these is one more message in the same chat. You stack them up until the widget feels like yours.

A combined market widget

Small widgets are great for a single number, but a medium widget has room for more. Because WidgetAI also has a built-in stocks connector, you can put crypto and equities on one tile:

a medium widget with Bitcoin and the AAPL stock price side by side

Now one glance covers both markets. You can mix in a sparkline for each, or color both by their day's change. This is where building your own widget pays off — no single app gives you exactly your BTC-plus-a-stock combination, but you can describe it in a sentence.

How fresh is it, really?

Here's the honest part. A crypto widget is only as useful as it is current, and there are limits worth knowing before you rely on one.

WidgetAI refreshes as often as every minute, but iOS decides when widgets actually update. The system budgets widget refreshes across your whole phone to save battery, so a widget can be a little behind the live market — sometimes a few minutes. That's fine for a glanceable ticker you check through the day. It is not a trading terminal, and you shouldn't treat the number as tick-accurate for a trade. If you want the full picture of what controls refresh timing, we wrote it up in how iOS widget refresh works.

None of this is financial advice, and the widget is for glancing, not for making decisions on a stale number.

Point it at your own data (Pro)

The built-in connector covers the common coins, but if you run a portfolio tracker or prefer a specific exchange's API, Pro users can add a custom HTTP API connector. Point it at any endpoint that returns JSON — an exchange price feed, a portfolio API, your own small service — and bind the widget to the fields in the response. We have a full walkthrough in how to build a custom HTTP API widget. This is how you'd track a coin the built-in connector doesn't, or show your own holdings instead of a raw price.

FAQ

Does this work on iPad or Mac? WidgetAI is an iPhone app for iPhone Home Screen widgets. That's what this guide covers.

Can I track more than one coin? Yes. Put several on a medium widget, or build separate small widgets for each. The free plan includes up to 3 widgets, so you can keep a few different ones.

Which coins are supported out of the box? The crypto connector defaults to Bitcoin and switches to other supported coins when you ask. For anything it doesn't cover, a Pro custom HTTP API connector can point at any JSON price source.

Is it free? The free plan gives you 3 widgets and 20 AI edits a month, which is enough to build and tune a crypto widget or two. Custom HTTP API connectors are a Pro feature.

How accurate is the price? It's a glanceable figure that iOS refreshes on its own schedule, so treat it as roughly current rather than live to the second.

Ready to build one? Get WidgetAI on the App Store and start with "a Bitcoin price widget with a sparkline." If you want ideas beyond crypto, our roundup of the best iPhone Home Screen widgets for 2026 is a good place to browse.