Although it doesn’t add a ton of functionality that you didn’t already have, it looks fantastic in that custom dashboard. It’s fully customizable, right down to the diameter thickness of the circle. This app shows your device’s battery life as a partial circle with a percentage number in the center. Circle Battery Widget embodies the pretty widget philosophy, minimalist, modern, and not super practical. You can always look to your notification bar to check your phone battery status, but that’s boring. RELATED : Carl Pei Continues Building Nothing Phone 1 Hype with a New Pre-Order Pass Circle Battery Widget You can add a semi-transparent black background if your wallpaper is too busy. You can change the font color, size, and clock style. Clock Widget’s default setting features white text against a transparent background, but it’s pretty customizable. That displays the time in writing thinks three thirty-two rather than 3:32. If you prefer words over numbers, Clock Widget is a cool text-based clock widget.

This is probably the writer in me speaking, but there’s nothing prettier than text. These widgets may not be super valuable, but they can be breathtaking. Thanks to aesthetically-minded widget designers, Android can be as pretty, minimalist, or text-based as you like. Sure, some people think that iOS is cute, but it’s all the same lovely. You can make it productive, informative, or just really, really pretty. Because the beauty of Android is that you can customize your home screen however you want. But not all widgets are designed purely with productivity in mind. Can’t you get that information from the notification bar? Er yeah. Who doesn’t want a helpful, informative, productivity-boosting widget right on their home screen? And then one of my iPhone Friends points to my pretty text-based clock, and the minimalist battery meter says. I’m always telling my iOS-loving friends that widgets are where it’s at.

Aesthetic widgets app