Widgets have been around for a long time. It was one of the features that made Android better than iOS. These days, our confidence in widgets has waned. Between better-designed apps, quick settings, app shortcuts, stronger notifications, and always-on displays, there’s not much reason to have them. However, some things like note taking, weather, calendar, to-do lists, etc. will always work best in a widget format. We just don’t live in the days we once had, but that doesn’t mean widgets are unnecessary. Here are the best Android widgets.
Battery Widget Reborn
Month: The Calendar Widget
Google now
Google keep
1Weather
KWGT Kustom Widget Maker
Muzei Live Wallpaper
Overdrop
Weather Underground
Todoist
Battery Widget Reborn
Battery Widget Reborn among the best Android widgets for battery meters. It provides a unique circular battery gauge widget. You can change the color and size to match your theme and your home screen layout. The app itself also has battery info, shortcuts to settings like WiFi and Bluetooth settings, and it even gives you graphs showing battery activity in more detail. It is not too complicated. However, in an age when smartphone makers still don’t always allow you to turn on the percentage in the status bar, apps like Battery Widget Reborn are still useful.
Month: The Calendar Widget
Month: The Calendar Widget and Organizer are two Android widgets from Candl Apps. The first is a fairly standard and minimal calendar widget. It includes over 90 themes, minimal layout, Google Calendar support, and shows your various upcoming commitments. It looks and feels great, although power users may need something a little more powerful. Calendar Widget: Calendar looks a lot like the other Calendar Widget app, but with more options. You can create widgets specifically for your calendar as well as any other upcoming event. Both widgets are free to use with a limited number of themes. You can buy more in-app purchases.
Google Now, Google Feed, Google Search
Google App has some decent Android widgets. The first is the classic Google search bar that we’ve all seen a million times. It’s simple, functional, and lets you find things quickly. The other 1 widget is a four by four widget. It shows you the weather with news maps with information related to things you like. It also provides a quick way to access Google Now / Assistant from your home screen. It’s efficient, it’s free, and it works well as an all-in-one option. You probably also have this app on your phone already, so it won’t take up any extra space. This one works best when integrated directly into launchers like Pixel Launcher, Lawn Launcher, Nova Launcher,etc. However, it can create its own widgets for your home screen.
Google keep
Google Keep is a simple and efficient note taking app. With it, you can create text notes, list notes and even voice notes. It also gives you the option to share notes with other people for collaboration reasons. It also comes with a simple set of Android widgets that lets you create notes quickly. They vary in size from simple to more complex, depending on your needs. That’s basically all you need when it comes to widgets for note-taking apps. It’s totally free. You can also access the notes on Google Drive using any web brows
1Weather
1Weather is one of the best weather apps available on the market and it comes with lots of stylish looking Android widgets. It has the old rocking clock and weather style widget which is also configurable and licking it will take you to the alarm app and clicking on the weather part will take you to the weather app. The app is free, but the free version comes with ads. You can remove the ads by paying $ 1.99.
KWGT Kustom Widget Maker
KWGT is one of the few DIY Android widgets. It uses a WYSIWYG editor. This makes it a little easier than you might think. You can have it do a variety of things and make it look almost any way you want. It also includes support for Zooper, Tasker, and other apps. Some of the items you can view include system information (processor speed, network statistics, etc.), time, battery, date, countdowns, traffic information, next alarm, location, etc. It’s quite powerful, but it takes more work than with most widgets. To our knowledge, this is one of the few custom widget apps still in active development.
Muzei Live Wallpaper
Muzei Live Wallpaper is a popular live wallpaper app. A recent update also gave it a new widget. It lets you move on to the next piece of art. It’s a fun little widget for those who like to change backgrounds a lot. Plus, there are tons of apps that support Muzei, including launchers, other wallpaper apps, and even Tasker. It’s not half bad for the low, low price of free. The selection of widgets isn’t great, but it does what it should. It’s also fair if you call it a live wallpaper app because it kind of is.
Overdrop
Ovedrop is one of the new Android widgets on the list. Technically, it’s just a weather app, but it does have some surprisingly decent home screen widgets. This includes a forecast widget with a maximum duration of five days, a map style layout that includes date and battery percentage, and your basic current weather forecast widget. It uses Dark Sky as a weather service provider and also has basic functionality for weather applications. The app itself has a dark mode which we like a lot and the user interface is lovely. To be fair, there’s not much wrong with that, and it’s a great option if you want some pretty weather widgets
Weather Underground
Weather Underground is one of the best weather apps out there. It also has some decent widgets. The app offers usual weather elements such as current temperature, extended forecast and weather radar. You also get information like pollen count, UV index, and other useful stats. Widgets come in different sizes, but they all work great. They are slightly customizable, which is usually sufficient for most people. We prefer the one that changes the color of the widget depending on the temperature. The application is completely free with advertising. You can remove the ads with a subscription.
Todoist
Todoist has some of the most gorgeous widgets in any to-do list app. The whole app looks really good, actually. The developers do a great job incorporating bright colors, a comprehensive material design, and it’s still relatively easy to use. The free version includes most of the basic features, including tasks, due dates, and some organizational features. The premium edition adds things like reminders and other features for power users. In terms of looks and Android widgets, this one performs as good as it gets. Widgets are like the app. By this we mean that they are colorful, easy to use and powerful.We also quite like Todoist’s cross-platform capabilities.
