WidgetAIIntroducing WidgetAI
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WidgetAI is now on the App Store. It's an iPhone app for building your own Home Screen widgets, and the whole thing works by talking. You describe the widget you want, the AI designs it, and it goes live on your Home Screen. No layout tools, no dragging boxes around.
We built it because the widgets that ship with most apps are fixed. You get what the developer decided to make, in the size they decided to make it. If you wanted your steps, the current Bitcoin price, and your next meeting on one tile, you were out of luck. WidgetAI lets you ask for exactly that.
How it works
You start a chat and say what you want: "a weather widget with today's high and low and a little icon," or "show my step count as a ring." The AI reads that, designs a widget, and shows it to you. If it's not quite right, you keep talking. "Make the font bigger." "Use Celsius." "Show my steps instead of the date." Each message refines the design, and when you're happy, you add it to your Home Screen like any other widget.
That back-and-forth is the point. You don't need to know what a widget is made of or how it's laid out. You describe the result, and you correct it in plain language until it looks the way you pictured.
Templates to start from
A blank page is hard, so you don't have to start there. WidgetAI comes with templates you can pick and then reshape by chatting: weather, clocks and world time, calendar and reminders, health (steps, sleep, and activity rings), GitHub, crypto and stocks, news, photos, quotes, and battery. Grab the one closest to what you want and tell the AI how to change it.
Live data
A widget is only useful if it stays current, so WidgetAI can pull real data in two ways.
There are built-in connectors for things that live on the internet: weather, air quality, crypto, stocks, world clocks, GitHub, RSS news feeds, quotes, and service status. And there are on-device signals read straight from your iPhone: battery, location, calendar, reminders, photos, and HealthKit. The device signals never leave your phone to get read — they're pulled locally, on your device, with your permission.
That mix means a single widget can show both a market price and your own step count, and both keep updating on their own.
What you can design
Widgets can hold more than text. WidgetAI can lay out text and icons (SF Symbols, Lucide icons, and crypto logos), gauges, and a range of charts: line, bar, pie, donut, and sparkline. It can draw contribution-style heatmaps, apply gradients, and use a small, curated set of fonts that actually look good at widget size. The idea is to give you enough range to make something distinctly yours without drowning you in options.
Sizes
WidgetAI supports small and medium widgets today. Large widgets aren't there yet — we'd rather ship the two sizes we're happy with than a large one that feels half-finished. It's on the list.
Plans
The free plan gives you 3 widgets and 20 AI edits a month, which is enough to build a couple of things you'll actually keep on your Home Screen. Pro, available as an in-app purchase, lifts those limits: unlimited widgets, more AI edits, and custom HTTP API connectors so you can wire a widget up to your own data source.
What's next
This is a first release, and we have a long list. Larger widgets, more connectors, more chart and layout options, and a steady stream of small improvements to how the AI understands what you ask for. We're a small team, and we ship often.
If you build something you like, or hit something that frustrates you, we want to hear about it. There's a real person on the other end of our contact page, and the feedback we get shapes what we build next.
WidgetAI is made for iPhone and Mac, and it's available on the App Store now.