The beauty and effectiveness of desktop widgets.

A clean home screen beats a crowded one on Pixels.

Right on my Mac desktop, I can check my mouse battery (38% and dropping), see where my son Ian is (at work), get the latest weather update (hello, sunny Phoenix!), and even keep track of time with a ...

McClockface arrived back in 2021 as a sharp way to bring customizable clock widgets to iPhone. Recently the app arrived on Mac and I’ve been trying it out. The library of clock faces has grown to ...

Not Boring: Not Boring Apps, which include Vibes, Weather, Habits, Calculator, and Time, all have interactive widgets on the home screen and StandBy Mode support. Your iPhone Home Screen won't look ...

The Android Auto redesign announced by Google in January ships with many changes, and one of the most important concerns is the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. The search giant redesigned the ...

At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) earlier this year, Apple revealed that interactive widgets would be coming to macOS Sonoma. That probably sounds like a tiny new feature, and sure, it’s ...

Home screen widgets have been a part of Android from the very beginning and the first T-Mobile G1 in 2008. And for a long time, widgets were one of the first answers when you asked an avid Android ...

The iOS 26 update for iPhone delivers a variety of new features to CarPlay, with one of the coolest arrivals being the ability to add and customize widgets. If you're not familiar, widgets nestle on ...