17 Best Widgets to Install on Your iPhone

Widgets were first introduced in iOS 10 to allow users to quickly preview their favorite apps without actually launching them. Widgets can be accessed from the Lock screen, Home screen, Notification Center, and even from the 3D Touch shortcut menu of certain apps. You can check the current weather condition of your city, read the latest news, view upcoming events, and do other tasks from the Lock screen by making use of widgets. If you don't know how to add widgets, then read our guide here. Continue reading to learn about 17 of the best iPhone widgets. 

17 Google Assistant

Google Assistant is a voice assistant that is very similar to Siri. It offers a number of amazing features that will make you want to switch from Siri to Google Assistant. You can control your smart home devices, create a shopping list, use shortcut commands, convert measurement units, and do much more. While you cannot replace Siri with Google Assistant, you can add its widget to the Today view so that you can quickly invoke it with the tap of a button. Simply press the microphone icon on the widget to activate Google Assistant and speak to it.

16 Launcher

Launcher is an extensive widget that allows you to do a bunch of different things from the Lock screen. You can add your favorite apps to this widget and launch them quickly from the Lock screen, listen to your favorite songs, quickly compose a new email, call your favorite contacts, open your bookmarked websites, and do much more. It's an all-in-one widget that allows you to get things done more quickly on your iPhone.

15 Shazam

Have you ever come across a song that you wanted to know its name? Shazam is one of the best apps for quickly identifying the song that is playing around you. With the tap of a button, Shazam will listen to the song and identify it in a matter of seconds. It displays details such as the song name, the artist, and the album title as well as its video and lyrics. Using its widget, you can quickly invoke Shazam from the Lock screen. This can be extremely useful when the song is about to end and you don't want to miss out on finding its name.

14 iTranslate

iTranslate is an amazing app that allows you to quickly translate words and phrases from one language to another. It's quick, user-friendly, and supports a large number of languages. The app provides a widget that allows you to quickly translates texts that have been copied to your clipboard. All you have to do is to tap on the language that you want to translate to and the widget will do it for you.

13 MusixMatch

Many people prefer to listen to songs while reading their lyrics, but no one wants to go through the hassle of finding them. If this is the case, then you should check out an app called MusixMatch. It automatically finds the lyrics for the song that is playing on your iPhone and displays it to you. Using its widget, you can read lyrics directly from your Lock screen and this saves you the hassle of having to search for lyrics on the internet.

12 DataMan Next

If you want a simple widget with a user-friendly UI for tracking your data usage, then you're going to love the DataMan Next widget. It displays your current data usage and the remaining data, provides a forecast of when you'll hit your data cap, lets you know the number of days left before your data expires, lets you track your data usage within a particular session, and so on.

11 World Clock

If you have friends and family members who live in a country with a different time zone than yours, then you probably want to keep track of their time to make sure that they are awake when you call. World Clock is an app that allows you to view the local time of cities from all around the world. The app offers a widget to view the world clock right from the Lock screen.

10 Copied

Do you copy and paste a lot of texts and links on your iPhone? If yes, then you're going to love Copied, an app that allows you to keep track of your entire clipboard history and easily manage them via its Today view widget. You can save texts, links, and images that you've copied so that you can access them later. The app also provides a suite of management tools to edit your clipboard items, search for something that you've saved, share your clipboard items, and much more.

9 Fantastical 2

Fantastical is one of the best and most useful calendar apps on the App Store. Using its widget, you can keep track of your upcoming reminders and events in the Today view, as well as view a mini calendar when you expand the widget.

8 Todoist

Gone are the days when you had to jot down your shopping list or to-do items on a piece of paper. Todoist is one of the best apps for managing your to-do list. It provides a simple widget for the Today view that allows you to easily keep track of your to-do items, add new ones, as well as mark the ones that have been completed.

7 Deliveries

If you have a couple of packages that are on their way to you, Deliveries allows you to easily keep track of them all from a single place. The best part is that it offers a widget to keep track of all the delivery information right from your Lock screen along with the date that your packages will arrive.

6 News

News is a stock iOS app that allows you to stay on top of the latest stories. You can subscribe to various different sources of publications that are of interest to you, so that you can view the stories that matter the most. Using the News widget, you can read the latest headlines from your Lock screen without ever launching the app.

5 Countdown

If your friend's birthday is nearby or there's an upcoming event that you want to miss out on, then you should definitely try the Countdown app. It adds a widget to the Today view so that you can view all the countdowns from your Lock screen.

4 Kitchen Stories

If you can't come up with a new meal to cook every day, then you should definitely check out Kitchen Stories. The app's widget displays a single recipe every day and takes you through the bits and pieces of cooking it.

3 Dark Sky

Dark Sky is one of the best weather apps out there, and so is its widget. It displays the current temperature and weather condition on your Lock screen, and you can expand the widget to view additional details such as the daily weather forecast.

2 Favorites

While most of the widgets listed here are from third-party apps, the stock iOS widgets are quite useful as well. One example is the Favorites widget which displays up to 8 of your favorite contacts that have been added to the Phone app. You can call, message, email, or FaceTime your favorite contacts.

1 WhatsApp

If you're a frequent user of WhatsApp, then you're going to love its widget. It allows you to quickly jump into any of the eight most recent conversations that you've had in WhatsApp.