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Widgets for home screen and lock screen

A widget saves you from opening the app for a quick check: which tasks are still open today, who checked off, who has not. With Premium, one tap from the home screen is all it takes.

Four widgets, four points of view

There are four widget types, identical on iOS and Android:

My tasks today. For a kid profile — shows that one kid's tasks due today.

Task overview. For a parent profile — shows what is currently waiting for completion or approval, across all kids.

Family at a glance. One row per kid, with the number of open tasks and a warning icon as soon as something is overdue. The fastest way to see at breakfast where things stand.

⭐ Task streak. For a kid profile — the big number of days in a row on which at least one required task was done, the kid's own avatar in front of a streak fire that grows with the streak, and the week as a row of dots with chests for the next reward. If nothing has been done by the evening on a weekday, it switches to "Streak in danger!" from 5 pm. The app draws the avatar itself — opening it once is enough for it to appear in the widget. How the streak counts is explained in Avatar, coins and levels.

All four come in several sizes, follow the device's appearance (light/dark), and the language set on the device.

Free tier shows, Premium acts

On the free tier, widgets are display-only: tapping opens the app, nothing more.

The streak widget is complete on the free tier too — it only displays anyway.

With Premium, the task widgets become interactive. A kid checks off their task right in the widget, a parent approves or rejects a pending task directly from the overview — without opening the app. The change appears in the widget immediately and syncs with the app in the background.

Requirement: the cloud version

Widgets only work on the cloud version — they fetch their own data from the server, even while the app is closed. The offline version, which keeps everything local to one device, has no counterpart for that, so widgets are not available there. See Setting up your devices for more on cloud and offline mode.

Setting one up

Adding a widget to the home screen works like for any other app: long-press the home screen, find PiggyTask, pick the widget type and size. The first time you add one, it asks which profile to show — with several kids on the same device, you can add a separate widget for each.

Several kids, one device

On a shared device with several kid profiles, each widget is bound to exactly one profile — a kid never sees their siblings' tasks in their own widget. In kid mode, only that one kid's widget can be tapped; the others stay view-only.

iOS and Android differences

On iOS there are widgets for the lock screen and, on newer models, StandBy as well — handy for a glance at a phone lying flat and charging. On Android, only the classic home-screen widget is available.

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