New iOS 14 widgets you can try today

Despite the surprise release of iOS 14 that left app developers unprepared, an ambitious few have managed to push their way through - or even pull an all-nighter - in order to make their apps available with iOS 14 support on launch day. For the first time in years, the new version of iOS offers a new way for consumers to organize their home screens. Now, your less frequently used apps can be shuffled away to the App Library on the iPhone's back screen, while those apps offering information and updates can feature their content through new home screen widgets.

In time, widget support will be a standard feature for a large number of apps. But due to the way Apple chose to release iOS 14 this year, there may not be as many app widgets offered on day one.

Below are some of the first apps launching today alongside iOS 14 that include interesting iOS 14 widgets. These apps and their widgets should be available today shortly after the iOS 14 release.

Aviary

Twitter client Aviary released widgets that allow you to view either 1, 2 or 4 of the latest tweets (depending on which widget size you select) from your Twitter timeline. The widgets will update periodically by themselves, as well. The app will be available today after iOS 14 rolls out.

Image Credits: Aviary (widget shown in top right)

Brief

Unbiased news app Brief is keeping to its promises to avoid clickbait with its minimalist, monochromatic widget designed to stop attention hijacking. The Front Page" widget's content will be carefully curated by its news team, so only the most important stories of the day will show up on your home screen.

A second Election Snapshot" widget will let you keep track of the current presidential, house and senate races at a glance. Users can customize this widget to track their own most-watched races, like those in their home state, for example.

Image Credits: Brief

Soor

Soor, a premium music player app for iPhone users, has released three widgets in various sizes. The Now Playing" widget shows the current song and what's up next, and updates in near real time. There's also a Magic Mixes" widget for your mixes and a Music Collection" widget that can be configured to show eight types of curated content.

Image Credits: Soor

Readdle: Spark Mail, Calendar 5, Documents

Readdle has released widgets for its Calendar iOS app that show your appointments and the month.

Image Credits: Readdle/Calendar 5

Its Spark Mail app offers widgets for email and calendar, too.

Image Credits: Readdle/Spark Mail

And Documents by Readdle is adding widgets for quick access for file actions like VPN, music, player, browser, etc.

Image Credits: Readdle

Streaks

The habit forming to-do list app Streaks is out today with new widgets in various sizes for tracking your habits, goals, and your overall progress.

Image Credits: Streaks

Cheep

Cheep's app lets you know about mistake fares or other ridiculously discounted flight deals. Its new iOS 14 widgets can be customized to feature deals from your airports and can be stacked together to make it easy to see the deals without opening the app.

Image Credits: Cheep

Dice

Dice, from PCalc, is a physics-based simulation of polyhedral dice for use in tabletop role-playing games. The app's new widgets bring its dice to your home screen allowing you to open the app with just a tap.

Image Credits: PCalc

Twilight Dice

Another dice app also has its widgets live today.

Image Credits: Twilight Dice

Weather Line

Forecasting app Weather Line already offers a lot of visual data related to weather and forecasts. Now it's bringing its insights and graphs right to the iOS 14 home screen. The app's all-in-one weather widget delivers current conditions, forecasts and other content like high/low, sunrise/sunset, incoming rain, extreme weather warnings and more.

Image Credits: Weather Line

Nighthawk

Nighthawk's Twitter client will release its first widget today. Vanity" lets you keep an eye on your Twitter profile metrics, like how many followers you have and how many you're following.

The first Nighthawk widget for iOS 14, Vanity," is coming today, along with big enhancements to Smart Filter made possible by new iOS features! We have so much more on the horizon, but things are still up in the air a bit.

Get it? Air? Birds? Aw f pic.twitter.com/MzzlJoQ8O8

- Team Nighthawk (@NighthawkApp) September 16, 2020

Apollo for Reddit

Popular Reddit client app Apollo is offering a collection of widgets, including a Post widget that shows a post from a Reddit feed of your choosing, a Multiple Posts widgets that will show several posts from your favorite feed, a Post Feed Grid that presents posts in a more visual, grid-style layout, a Wallpaper widget that will rotate through photos from image-heavy subreddits you like, as well as Showerthoughts and Jokes widgets that put a little humor on your home screen.

Image Credits: Apollo for Reddit

Carrot Weather

The iOS 14 release of Carrot's humorous weather app brings a forecast widget, hourly and daily widgets, a weather maps widget and - in true carrot fashion - a snark widget that delivers your weather with the app's classic snarky comments.

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Tangerine

Habit and mood tracking app Tangerine will offer a variety of widgets to remind you about your progress on your day's goals, like your commitments to run, exercise, drink water or whatever else you may be tracking.

Image Credits: Tangerine

Nudget

Nudget's mobile budgeting app will introduce widgets for keeping up with your household budget, including things like those categories where you've spent too much or have dropped your spending, and how much money you have left this week.

Image Credits: Nudget

Birch

Organized photo notes app Birch includes a Featured Photo widget that lets you put a photo on your home screen - a neat trick, since there's not a way to do so with the iOS Photos app. (Submitting today)

Image Credits: Birch

Card Pointers

Card Pointers, an app that helps users get the most points and cash back from their credit cards, is launching with three widgets that will help people track their cards, know when to use one to maximize their benefits, and stay on top of the free statement credits being offered.

Image Credits: Card Pointers

FunnMedia's apps

FunnMedia's health tracking apps, HabitMinder, WaterMinder, Calory App and Healthview all have released widgets today to help you track movement, water intake, and other health goals.

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SmartGym

SmartGym arrives today with several new widgets including your week's workout summary, simpler workout widgets with more graphics, and even one that delivers motivational quotes. The widgets can also be stacked in case you can't decide which to choose.

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Pocketdex

Pocketdex will put your Pokemon on your homescreen. (The app is rolling out now).

Image Credits: Pocketdex

Copilot

Finance app Copilot has also released its widgets today.

Our widgets are now live! #iOS14 #widgets pic.twitter.com/x5i88P3JkY

- Copilot (@copilotmoney) September 16, 2020

Bolt Workout

Image Credits: Bolt Workout

Exercise app Bolt Workout has widgets large and small for tracking workouts, achievements, and more.

Personal Best Workouts

Image Credits: Personal Best Workouts

Another workout app, Personal Best Workouts, lets you track your workouts with widgets.

The above apps should be live today after iOS 14 releases, barring some unforeseen rejection.