Widgy Widgets: Home/Lock/Watch 3.1.1

version 3.1.1

Sep 25, 2023
Version 3.1.1
Major additions:
• Interactive Buttons
• Added Siri Shortcut for reloading widgets
• Added SF Symbols 5

Improvements:
• Added Invert Values option to the Bar Chart layer
• Switched to a new horoscope provider that has shorter texts
• Added support for the Czech language
• Improved Editor thumbnail generation
• Removed the non-working Anime-Chan data source
• Added an Effect option to redact a layer when exporting as image/video
• Switched from ip-api.com to ipapi.co for a more reliable IP address
• Added a different "no image" image, since people were mistaking the old image for transparency
• Improved handling of crypto and exchange rates endpoints

Bug fixes:
• Fix for Gauge layer not importing images from Photos
• Fix for Line Chart layer not displaying content when frame size was too tiny
• Fix for copy/pasting position automation values inside the editor's bottom drawer
• Fix for Volume sometimes not reporting the correct values
• Fixed Current Heavenly Stem and Current Earthly Branch when date language was set to non-English

version 3.0

Aug 27, 2023
Version 3.0
Major additions:
• Live Activities widgets
• Dynamic Island widgets
• Watchy Complications (including corner and inline complications)
• Open Any Widget In "Picture In Picture" mode
• Use the app badge as a new way to display information

Improvements:
• Redesigned widget size picked
• New smaller UI buttons for not-so-important actions
• Added vertical text line mode option
• Added weather temperature data that's always in C or F
• When changing the widget type in the editor, or importing a widget of a different type than the currently selected tab, the app automatically switches to the correct tab
• During onboarding, if a user doesn't pick any custom icon, force auto picking of the default icon, just to nudge iOS to list Widgy in the widget apps list
• New default sizes for all layers, manually measured for each widget size
• The Manage tab now throws a warning if using high-quality transparency
• All document tab properties now ask for a password, if the password is present
• Clear Cache option should now also try to clear the Safari cache
• Improved theming color handling
• Reddit browser can now display crossposts
• Improved calculations for stretching effect
• Apple Gauge got a Unicode remapping option (this is useful for corner complications since they can't have a custom font)
• When editing text data color, X is now replaced with a trash can, so it can better signalize that you can delete a text data color
• Added document tab option to disable widget refresh
• Updated design for empty widgets
• Added Zodiac signs to date text data
• Added "Current Heavenly Stem" and "Current Earthly Branch" to date text data (Chinese people use that)
• Image from URL now supports local files, so you can hardcode URLs to some system files
• Color and Gradient picker now has Alpha/Angle as a button for a finer control and manual input
• Added a few more 3rd party apps to tap actions list
• Updated Czech name days
• Added "Trim" and "Replace Text" options to the text layer
• Text countdowns can now use different time zones
• Widget editor top navigation subtitle now displaying memory usage of images
• Group layers are now colored in permanent random color, to differentiate them better
• When duplicating a layer, if that layer is part of some button, make the duplicated layer part of that button as well (works with groups as well)
• Widgy/Watchy settings now have a Health sources option, similar to Agenda sources; but for Health
• Revamped the in-app purchases
• New community-driven localizations and some improvements to older ones

Bug fixes:
• Hide the Tap action vibration options on iPad and macOS
• Assigned widgets with no visible layers shouldn't display the "Tap to assign" message anymore
• Updated horoscope endpoint
• Fixed crypto charts
• More precise altitude reporting
• Fix for Font Awesome Brands not appearing in search results
• Fix for the initial onboarding not being displayed
• Fixed a button typo on the QR scan screen
• Sync to watch should not throw an unknown error if some of the widget images can't be fetched
• Improved handling of Lock Screen widgets in app thumbnails
• Map screenshot now switching properly between dark and light mode
• Web screenshot picker got a fix that disables zooming since that was the intended behaviour
• Renamed "sort" in the create tab to "sort & filter"
• Screen brightness data now returns the last non-zero value when the device is locked
• Fixed a bug that made some data unavailable to the Apple Gauge layer

version 2.2.1

Mar 7, 2023
Version 2.2.1
• A bug that caused widget issues when the editor was opened and the user tapped on an empty widget on the home screen or tried to import via Widgy URL or Widgy file has been fixed
• Several crash fixes have been implemented based on users' crash logs
• A critical bug that prevented users from accessing the app has been fixed
• Recurring all-day reminder items are now being displayed properly
• "Remaining Events Today", "Remaining Reminder Events Today", and "Remaining Calendar Events Today" have been added
• Sleep tracking options have been included in the Widgy settings
• The transparency cropper now only displays photos from screenshots to avoid any further confusion when selecting images

version 1.8.2

Nov 8, 2021 Version 1.8.2
Major new features:
• minimum requirements have been bumped to macOS 12
• text layer now uses attributed strings so it can have multiple fonts and colors
• added curved text layer
• updated SF Symbols to v3 + revamped SF Symbols picker UI + improved color symbols rendering in editor
• added blink effect
• preview screen has a new share option to render video
• calendar layer now has optional heatmaps for the agenda (if you have multiple events on the same day, that day is rendered with full opacity, while other days with fewer events can optionally be rendered more transparent)
• updated design for getting you started widgets

Minor features:
• added "repeat values" to automation ... menu
• improved detection for the app update
• fixed wrong rendering of shadows
• updated localization (some hand translated, some machine)
• added machine-translated Italian localization
• faster app loading
• fixed the buggy transparent tab bar in create/explore sections
• fixed most common app crashes according to crash logs
• nicer auto colors in the timeline
• updated design for widget resolution picker (editor -> phone icon next to # menu)
• fix for the incorrect rendering of empty images (for example when apple music song has no image)
• fix for bar chart decimals (were shown as a switch instead of stepper)
• added Widgy brand colors and widgy gradient to color/gradient picker
• fix for sharing images from files to explore
• fixed weird naming of weather data source for images
• added dismiss button to symbols as gauge needle picker
• fixed crashing in some places where you picked agenda as a color
• fixed calendar first-week number
• color alpha can go to 0%
• added clip to frame editor option
• all angle related properties that went to 355 go to 360 + angle button now goes from -360 to 720 degrees
• fixed image layer web image search
• added merchandise button to the create tab
• minor fixes to automation where it assigned the automation to the wrong property
• fixed group alignment being disabled
• stash can now import from files
• improved way of parsing gauge needles
• fixed vertical bar chart "font on top" text rendering bug
• automations are not affected by DST anymore
• fix for not being able to select the line charts horizontal line color
• added up to 20 agenda items
• proper wind direction smart symbols
• improvements to album art fetching
• improvements on how in-app purchases are handled

version 1.7

Sep 29, 2021 Version 1.7
Major new features:
• Almost all properties of the layer can now be automated over a 24 hour period. That means you can automate position, visibility, and everything else over time.
• Added a lot of new Health Kit data (including Sleep Tracking).
• Added Activity Ring layer which uses similar rules to Gauge layer, so you can easily overlay one on top of another.
• Text and all charts got options for number formatting - control the number of decimals, grouping separator (10000 vs 10,000), and removal of the unit/suffix.
• Improved tap action tap detection that should work with iOS 15.
• Added wind speed options to widget settings.
• Improved memory usage due to a bug related to localization. More memory = fewer widgets not loading.
• Symbols can now act as gauge needles.
• All charts can now use "Exclusive Segment Mode". That means gauge can show weather, Bitcoin price, your steps, or anything else that was previously available only to non-gauge charts. The only downside is that it's up to you to enter the minimum and maximum value so that Widgy can calculate the percentage of the current value.
• Added an option for horizontally oriented calendars.
• Integrated Reddit browser in Explore tab.
• Widgy now checks for an app update, and if an update is available, you'll get a nice non-intrusive popup.

Minor features:
• All dates are now localizable
• Improved image upload
• Proper order of widget sizes in document tab
• Fix for single value charts with 0% rendering 100%
• Fixed the line chart horizontal/vertical lines not being affected by blur or edge rounding
• Added a lot of new names for the random default widget name
• Added time spend editing info to widget preview
• Gauges with no data hide numbers and needle
• Added 1-bar custom value data source (want a chart that always shows 69% - got you covered)
• Added more countdown options to charts (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly)
• Added new countdown entries to text (days/months/years since date)
• Added percentage-based countdown options to text (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly/annually)
• Added symbol rotation option to line charts
• Added restore purchases button to the "unlock full version" screen
• While loading data, tapping edit more than once doesn't show the editor more than once anymore
• Added effects option/toggle to not clip to frame (this means some info can be rendered out of layers bounds)
• Added effects option/toggle to not stretch the layer (so the circle will look like a circle and not like an ellipse)
• Added "random number" text data source
• Added "random line of text" text data source
• Layer insets are now rendered as orange stripes (if additional guides are turned on)
• The empty photo layer is now rendered as a "transparent pixels grid"
• Added "random" charts data source
• New design for layer picker
• Layer ... menu now has items grouped (added ---- separators)
• All color palettes are now also available as gradients
• Icons across the whole app are more unified (no more combinations of filled and outline icons)
• Added "widgy on macOS" card to the Create tab
• Added "Last Edited With" to the preview screen (so you can know how "old" widget is)
• Line Chart has a new interpolation option - "Off"
• Since "Official Joke API" is still dead, but the jokes are available on Github, I've integrated those jokes directly into the app. Functionality should remain the same (minus the server fetching the data)
• Agenda color items have an improved design and if the user gave the permission to agenda, proper colors should be visible
• Improved design for small screens devices
• Fixed sharing bug that overwrote your widgys images with web images
• Updated Croatian, Chinese and Japanese translations (and machine-translated the rest of the languages)
• Added transparency support for new phones
• Improved support for 120hz mode on new phones

version 1.6.5

Jul 13, 2021 Version 1.6.5
Major:
• added group alignment tab
• multiple smoothing algorithms for line chart
• all layers got mirror modes and outline dash (under effects tab)
• added rest of iOS system fonts (iOS bundled fonts that are useful for non-Latin text)
• added connection type text data source
• added files as a data source for text
• added app icon image data source
• added apple music smart symbols
• working async JavaScript

Other:
• widgets using text/altimeter now refresh properly if you change the measurement system
• improved altimeter display for US units
• a bit better handling of text/holiday for people that were getting no data
• reminders end dates should not be wrong anymore
• fixed Messages SMS tap action
• fixed JavaScript editor Run command giving wrong feedback
• multiple rounding options for custom JSON math
• improved text line clip modes rendering (all old widgets use the old font rendering method while new widgets use the new font method + added option to switch font renderer in document tab)
• fixed line chart gradient rendering
• fixed gauge symbols having random scale when too small
• frame tab buttons not getting stuck anymore if held down when switching tabs
• updated yr.no endpoint
• effects and tabs with similar designs should not over scroll anymore
• improved RSS images handling
• permissions + widget slot picker now ask for agenda permissions
• fixed custom JSON response listing empty fields on float numbers
• volume data now reads volume from the main app (so it only works if refreshed via tap action)
• agenda date for the current day = today
• transparent BG cropper - if you are on a device that has the same resolution as some other device, you'll need to manually select your device
• relative timer is now localizable as is not a "live timer" anymore
• added bar chart alignment modes
• added week number to calendar
• added custom needle tinting to gauge
• improved fallback album art resolution (you should not get lo-res images anymore)
• (possible) fix for agenda sources not remembering the correct selection
• export should not delete any hidden layers anymore
• added PPI text data source
• fixed name days endpoint
• added a warning for transparent BG if used on a large widget
• fixed widgyURL importing from safari failing sometimes
• better handling of rotated objects in medium widgets
• improved underline rendering on the home screen
• fixed the interactive back gesture issue in the initial screen

version 1.6.1

May 28, 2021 Version 1.6.1
• added Calendar and Reminders colors to System Colors
• added "Days Only" to the Countdown
• progress can now use Time Zones (Text, Charts, Gauge)
• fixed Public Holidays not returning anything if your Calendar Language setting was missing the -xx part
• fixed positioning of Calendars layer Current Week Highlight
• fixed Smooth Line Chart missing the first segment of the line
• Reminder/All Items Today won't be counting the items that don't have an end date any more
• Reminders are now always sorted by end date (items without a date are always on top)
• added a new option for reminders to toggle if you want reminders without date or not (Widget Settings/Agenda/Ignore Reminders Without Date)
• increased the upper bound for Line Chart Symbol Scale
• fixed the macOS layer list going out of editor on tap of the layer name
• added Javascript/Async + No main() for proper async data fetching
• added One Segment Background Color to Circle Charts
• fixed Line/Bar Chart displaying wrong value if all values were the same
• increased the max value for Line Chart Horizontal/Vertical Line Thickness
• new default URL for custom JSON data
• added the third screen for Custom JSON Data - Regex filtering, Math operations, Text prepending/appending
• added switch for insetting the first and last Symbol and Text in Line Chart
• Captain Icons are now searchable
• improved Transparent Widget Image Picker design on small screen devices
• Pedometer Average Pace unit should now be in seconds/meter (s/m)
• all date pickers should now have a proper circle tint if in dark mode
• all searchable Data Sources should now work with localized/non-English entry names
• right column should now scroll to the top when selecting the left column in all dual-column Data Sources
• added activity indicator (loading spinner) to agenda sources picker in Widget Settings
• opening Chart Lyrics in Acknowledgments shouldn't crash the app anymore

version 1.6

May 16, 2021 Version 1.6
Major features:
• added agenda (calendars and reminders) data source (text layer, calendar layer)
• added line chart layer (including special smart symbols for that layer that mimics "weather line" app)
• text layer can chain multiple data sources
• added RSS data sources (text layer, image, tap actions layer)
• added countdown data source (text layer, all chart layers, gauge layer)
• added name days data source (text layer)
• added static needle option for gauge (needle stays still while the rest of gauge rotates)
• added custom JSON endpoints (text layer, image layer)
• added JavaScript for image layer
• added "language onboarding" for people that can't find language/locale settings in the app
• searchable data sources
• added Unicode remapping for text layer

Other features:
• non-destructive selection for all dual-column data sources
• all charts got an option to choose the max number of items shown in the chart
• all chart health data sources converted into "health daily" with last 30 days
• added "health readings" as a chart data source
• revamped currencies and cryptocurrencies data sources
• bar and circle charts now have a font scale option
• added font offset option to bar chart
• added "text on top" option to bar charts
• if no data available, all charts are now completely empty
• added average pace to pedometer data
• added current week highlight to calendar
• added month offset to calendar layer
• better display of layer picker on low res devices
• split the image and tap action data sources into groups
• added support for "iPhone 12 Pro" and "iPhone XS" with display zoom to transparency cropper
• publish to explore is only available for your widgys (to further minimize the number of reposts)
• effects and other views with similar design now remember your scroll position
• publishing widgy should now reload the explore tab
• locale picker is now localized
• removed sort and group values options from bar and circle charts
• removed system info/brightness & battery chart data sources
• all weather chart info is now in 24-hour format
• removed normalize values and stack bars in the bar chart
• improved text rendering for bar charts
• if all values in the line/bar chart are the same, draw them on the bottom instead of on the top
• all line/bar charts with more than 1 segment now have 15% of top/bottom padding
• widgys with less than 7 layers can't be published to explore tab (to minimize the number of low effort widgys)
• all 3 charts (in the editor) will hide the date format option if the data source doesn't use the date
• added "time" to "date format" option for charts (useful when dealing with health kits last readings data)
• weather image data source details now shown in the right menu instead of a fullscreen view
• after thumbnails generate in this version, they shouldn't be a need to generate them anymore on further app updates
• updated podcasts tap action preset
• removed temperature unit from settings since it's already present in the manage tab, and since we have the new "language onboarding" feature
• added custom widgy color to system widget picker button
• better insets for buttons with icon and long text
• selecting image layer data now tells you that the crop tool has moved
• improved design of "widget settings"
• "widget settings" can also be found in the settings tab
• improved "widget settings" entries names
• improved share menu
• if not in English language, the language picker now always shows English language name next to its localized listing
• updated Croatian, Romanian, german, French, Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese localizations
• updated rest of the languages via machine translation
• added Apps By Friends to settings
• more accurate precision for hours in weather
• added delete button to text data/custom text
• duplicate/delete/paste layer now updates the layer count on the navigation title
• selecting English in-app settings should now ignore the system settings language

version 1.5

Apr 2, 2021 Version 1.5
Major:
-UI redesign
-widgys can be exported to explore section, including all images from your photos that are being used
-added manage section where you can customize various aspects of widgets (your name, location, widget language, locale for dates and calendars, measurement and temperature units, the first day of the week for the calendar, and manage your permissions)
-"transparent backgrounds" are now image data sources (including blur and low-quality variants). with that also comes the universal wallpaper cropper under the manage tab and a widget position picker.
-added widgy stash image data source (so you can move all your widgy related photos to widgy and have nice clean photo albums)

Medium:
-redesigned "text tab" with all options in one place
-switched from JS Core to proper JavaScript handled by Safari (more memory friendly, and can handle custom JSON requests)
-redesigned JavaScript editor with syntax highlighting
-better-looking JavaScript editor
-added "compact mode" to the calendar
-added "files" as the image data source
-all input cells with stepper now have a manual text field input option
-added kerning, strikethrough, underline to the text layer
-added Unicode symbols to symbols layer, messages, and text prefix/suffix
-added ability to change language in-app
-added "your name" data source (for hello "your name")

Minor:
-updated translations
-each new widget now has a random greek mythology name (no more widgets named "new")
-added "reload all" button to manage tab
-added 12-hour weather for charts
-added "web URL (no cache)" image data source
-added few more gauge shapes
-added "night" to "morning/evening/afternoon"
-adding components no longer requires confirmation with a checkmark
-widgets in create tab should (mostly) have the same order even after editing them
-improved data listing in the widget preview screen
-JSON import popup now has a multiline text field
-added lunar calendar without Chinese day names
-added manual rotation input in frame drawer
-circle chart - added angle range, start angle, and clockwise options
-moved community widgys to explore section
-improved handling of thumbnails
-added Japanese translation to the app
-added Romanian translation to the app
-improvements to album art handling
-better gauge tangents around edges, better handling of needle scale on some shapes
-made it more clearer that you can only have 1 tap action in small widgys, by presenting a popup once
-long press on the position/size button in the frame drawer gives you copy/paste options
-changing gauge needle image automatically sets the center of the needle
-added option to copy non-custom color hex code, or to copy the color to custom colors
-added widgyURL URL scheme for the opening of widgy links/QR codes (so you can open QR code even from the iOS camera, or paste/open widgyURL from safari)
-added "h:mm a" to time and date
-added transparent widgets to iPad

Bug Fixes:
-fixed "random image from the album with png transparency"
-empty tap actions shouldn't break widgets on the home screen anymore
-removed self masks, since they weren't working properly on widgets
-layer hidden by the parent group was still tappable in the layer list
-removed blend mode effect for groups, since they weren't working properly
-removed fav quotes (endpoint not working anymore)
-updated anime chan and quote garden
-symbol search now once again scrolls and selects the proper symbol when exiting search
-removed dictum quotes (server was very slow)
-fixed weather charts for non-English languages
-fixed transparent widgets for some devices

version 1.3

Dec 22, 2020 Version 1.3
The long wait is finally over, we finally got the weather! And it works as text, images, symbols, and charts!

Widgy has also been internationalized, which means that we can translate the app to other languages. At the moment the app has been translated into Croatian and Korean. If you wanna see Widgy in your language, you can help with translations!

Smart Symbols are a thing now. If you're not familiar with that term, smart symbols are dynamic symbols that reflect some data and bind images/symbols to that data. For example, you can use the battery smart symbol, and the symbol will adapt to your battery percentage. No more messages/unicode hacks needed!

Speaking of Symbols, go to Apple SF Symbols and scroll to the bottom. We now have colored SF Symbols.

Text data sources got a few upgrades too!
You can now display your current city. That comes in handy with Weather, doesn't it?
Date and Time now have the option to manually enter the desired date/time, but don't type in seconds, cause that won't work as expected.
Last but not least, we have a daily horoscope, if that's your thing.

Some bugs have also been squashed, and some things improved:
• Health should now show data more reliably (note that there still might be some cases where data is not showing correctly, but should generally be better than before)
• Sun And Moon data have been revamped once more
• More memory efficient undo (limited to 50 "smart" steps - the deeper you go to older undos, the lower the time resolution)
• If you have disabled Bluetooth, that nagging popup shouldn't appear anymore
• Spelled Out Time doesn't have a suffix anymore
• Added 12-Hour (AM/PM) Spelled Out Time
• More photo albums in Random Photo From Album data (and also A-Z sorting instead of Z-A)
• Added shared cookies to Web Screenshot (so you can for example login to Facebook via Widgy Web Screenshot browser, and display your feed screenshot in Home Widget)
• Added Web Screenshot with a 2-second delay (for pesky websites that load content after reporting that website has loaded)
• Minor tweaks to Tap Actions
• Improved location handling
• Fixed copy/pasting of layers that have references to custom colors/gradients
• Charts can now display negative numbers (most notably the weather in celsius)
• Improvements to data fetching (leading to less data related bugs)

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version 1.2

Nov 24, 2020 Version 1.2
Editor:
• added calendar as a new layer. In future updates, this layer will be able to integrate with your data (calendar and reminders)
• added tap actions as a new layer. You can open web sites or run a Siri shortcut.
• added time without seconds
• layers can now be renamed (leave empty name for an auto name)
• swipe on layer has been replaced with ... menu
• added "transparent background helper tool" so you can have "transparent" widgets on your home screen
• Morning/Afternoon/Evening can now be localized via documents tab
• added AM/PM data source
• you can now tap on size/position numbers in the Frame tab and manually enter the desired values
• added daily/weekly/monthly/yearly progress data sources (both charts and text)
• added blend modes under effects
• added content insets under effects
• added "is dark mode" text data source
• you can now pick a different image for light and dark mode
• instead of having a 3-step toggle, the grid mode icon now shows a menu with separate toggles for wallpaper, grid, and marching ants/selection
• while switching layers, the app tries to stay on the selected tab or closest similar tab
• show hex codes instead of color names in the color picker

UI:
• editor on iPad now has a sidebar instead of the bottom bar
• various popup menus have been modernized
• more consistent buttons style across the whole app
• a bit different way of replacing/unassigning Widgy slots
• the in-app purchase screen has been improved to avoid any slot-mixing confusion
• renamed history tab to undo, since some users didn't even know this existed
• editor now remembers the last entered author name and uses it as default for every new widget
• various improvements to Widgy thumbnails - you'll see fewer placeholder images, scrolling should be smoother, and the memory usage should be improved

Other:
• Widgy is now compatible with the Mac Catalyst framework, so expect a Mac version of Widgy soon
• minor tweaks to image handling/resizing
• iPad app and Mac app now don't show data sources that don't exist on their platform (for example HealthKit)
• internal code reorganization; resulting in improved memory usage and fewer crashes
• larger dimensions of QR code to try to improve artifacts due to jpg compression destroying some QR codes
• added warning that Tip Jar doesn't unlock the full app
• custom web URL data - if the custom URL is already set and you decide to change the value, the popup will now fill in the previous URL into the text field
• Apple music items now shown last played item, even if that song isn't playing anymore
• various safeguards + error messages regarding importing and exporting
• time ago data source is only shown in chart date format picker
• time since the last reboot now works properly
• if you try to import Widgy from a newer version of the app, you'll get a proper error instead of nothing happening
• QR export with images from the web messed the order of layers, this is now fixed
• QR export with images from the web now uses a different URL shortener service
• no more double fetching of data (once in preview, once in the editor) - data is only fetched once
• fixed a bug where if the user was tapping too fast on layers the app would hang and/or crash
• when assigning a Widgy to a slot, if the user is in low power mode, the app shows a warning that Widgy refresh time will be greater than 15 minutes
• you can't delete Widgy or change the size of Widgy that is currently assigned to some slot
• both Widgy preview and editor show the initial Widgy preview faster
• undo now remembers the size of Widgy
• added size picker while creating a new Widgy
• new default "no image" image
• all layers have thumbnails on their left side
• add "new layer" on bottom of the list now inserts layers at the bottom
• automatic clean-up of the download cache
• added new community widgys
• updated help

version 1.1.2

Oct 28, 2020 Version 1.1.2
• added HealthKit
• further fixes related to location services

version 1.1.1

Oct 25, 2020 Version 1.1.1
• fixed the wrong DST offset for live clock
• widgy should now ask you for a location permission if the widget uses a component that requires location (sunrise/sunset, earthquakes, altitude, wifi ssid)
• when assigning a widgy to a slot, app will ask for missing permissions, just to be sure that information on home widget has all the required permissions
• further fixes related to limited access photos