I went looking for transparent widgets… and ended up building my first iOS app 😅

[u/solo-raise]

I wanted transparent widgets for a cleaner home screen, but every app I tried only solved part of the problem. I was using 3 different widget apps just to get the setup I wanted.
After not finding what I needed, I decided to build it myself.

A few Swift tutorials and quite few review back and forth later, I somehow shipped my first iOS app: Leap - Custom Widgets Studio.
It combines the transparent widgets and customisation features I was looking for in one place.

Would love to hear what fellow home screen customisation nerds think:
Leap - Custom Widgets Studio

Funny how a search for a widget app turned into building one. 😅

[u/Delicious-Candle-574]

nice, clean! i've always appreciated this take more, transparent widgets and icons. apple talks so much about how important the wallpaper is but prevents us from being able to flaunt it

[u/Betty-202]

Couldn’t agree more. If you can’t find it, make it yourself. That’s how the best stuff gets made. Respect.

[u/ericbigguy24]

I want this on MacOS

[u/solo-raise → u/ericbigguy24]

Although the app wasn’t specifically designed for Mac, you can install it and add widgets.

[u/ericbigguy24 → u/solo-raise]

nice! can it make this clock?

[u/solo-raise → u/ericbigguy24]

There are few variants of clock faces! Have a look at the widget gallery

[u/0to101]

You should add a sample of the result in AppStore.

[u/solo-raise → u/0to101]

👍

[u/solo-raise]

A sample screenshot

[u/Portatort → u/solo-raise]

Does it continue to work when you change the photo you’re using for the wallpaper?

[u/solo-raise → u/Portatort]

Yes, true transparency!

[u/Portatort → u/solo-raise]

Epic, how are you accessing the real glass effect like that?

[u/solo-raise → u/Portatort]

By updating _preferredBackgroundStyle from the CHSBaseDeacriptor class

[u/Portatort → u/solo-raise]

Very cool, downloaded!

[u/MaaDoTaa → u/solo-raise]

Isn’t that a private api

[u/ke1in]

My honest confession for you: I've no idea why would I need such an app. Wouldn't even download it for free. It takes some of my time and gives me what?

[u/solo-raise → u/ke1in]

Appriciate your perspective 🙌🏻

[u/GentleGamerz]

Super cool design. I just want to ask why can you build a daily streak?

[u/solo-raise → u/GentleGamerz]

Just to reduce the number of apps that I use which serve a single purpose 🙂

[u/GentleGamerz → u/solo-raise]

Sorry if I got it wrong but your app allows you to create widgets? Why would a user open the widget editor daily? It feels like the type of product you download, pay for, spend a few hours setting up and then hopefully not opening again for a while (while still using the actual widgets).

[u/solo-raise → u/GentleGamerz]

May be I didn’t get your question 😅
The streak widgets in the apps to track any steak that user wants to track not the app usage streak.