WidgetAI
Build any iPhone widget, just by asking.
Overview
iPhone widgets are useful, but you only get the ones someone bothered to build. Want a widget for your specific countdown, your habit, your data? Tough luck.
WidgetAI removes that limit. You describe the widget you want in plain language, the app builds it, and you refine it the same way until it looks right on your home screen.
The Challenge
Widget builders exist, but they hand you sliders and templates. We wanted the interface to be a sentence. That meant making an AI generate widgets that are genuinely usable: correct layout, sensible defaults, and safe to render inside iOS widget constraints.
Results
3,000+ users build and run their own widgets with WidgetAI. The core loop held up: people ask for oddly specific widgets no template gallery would ever cover, and that’s exactly the point.
Lessons Learned
- Prompts beat configurators: users who would never touch a settings panel will happily type a sentence
- Constrained output is the hard part: getting AI to produce something that always renders inside a widget is most of the engineering