Instead of a session
The number is on the screen you already look at forty times a day.
Widgets, Apple Watch and Live Activities
See your day without opening the app.
Put the parts of Loopa you use most on your home screen, your lock screen or your wrist. Food, water, weight, vitals and the whole day at a glance.
Included in Loopa Basic 22 on iPhone · 21 on Android · Apple Watch · Live Activities
Why it matters
The app you do not have to open
Most of what you want from a tracker is one number: how much is left, what the trend is doing, whether you drank anything today. Opening an app, waiting, and finding the screen is three steps too many for that, and it is where a habit quietly dies. A widget removes the app-opening step from the checks and the actions you repeat most.
For the things worth one
Water and a scheduled dose log straight from the widget, without the app appearing at all.
About what shows where
Vitals and medication names never render on a lock screen. That is a rule in the code, not a setting.
How tiers work here
The widget does not change your plan. It reflects the feature behind it.
There is no entitlement check inside the widgets at all, which makes this simpler than it sounds.
Just works
Food, water, weight, steps, vitals and your daily summary are part of Loopa Basic, so their widgets are too.
Has nothing to draw yet
Fasting, the next dose and the two training widgets sit on Premium features. On Loopa Basic they render their empty state rather than a lock icon, because there is genuinely nothing to show.
You already paid or you did not
Adding a widget never costs anything and never unlocks anything. It is a window onto what your account already holds.
The gallery
22 widgets on iPhone, 21 on Android
Grouped by what they are for. Every one of them is in the system widget picker under Loopa.
Food and macros
What you have eaten and what is left of the day.
Fuel
Calories left today, with protein, carb and fat gauges. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Eaten Today
Calories logged so far today. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Protein
Protein logged today against your target. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Net Carbs
Net carbs logged today against your target. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Fat
Fat logged today against your target. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Macros
Protein, carbs and fat against their targets, side by side. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
What's Left
Calories, protein and water still to go today. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Water
The one widget that logs without opening anything.
Water
Today's hydration ring, one tap from +8 oz. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone · logs from the widget
Weight
Today's number, and the line through the noise.
Weight
Current weight and the trend behind it. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Weight Trend
Your latest weigh-in against the trend line. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Steps
Today's steps against your mark. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Health
Readings and doses, with the lock screen deliberately left out.
Vitals
Your latest blood pressure and heart rate. iPhone and Android
Next dose
A countdown to your next scheduled dose, one tap from logging it. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone · logs from the widget
Fasting
Hours elapsed in your current fasting window. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
Training
What you are down to do, and what you have done.
Today's Workout
The next session on your program, and one tap into the logger. iPhone and Android
Workouts This Week (Training Week on Android)
Sessions done against your plan, and the volume behind them. iPhone and Android
Consistency
Days on record, without turning them into a streak to defend.
Days Logged
How many days you have on record. iPhone and Android · lock screen on iPhone
This Week
The last seven days, and which of them you logged. iPhone and Android
The whole day
Everything at once, for one glance.
Today's Page
Water, fuel and movement in one glance. iPhone and Android · logs from the widget on iPhone
Today's Rings
Fuel, water and movement as three rings. iPhone and Android
Quick actions
No numbers. Just the way in.
Quick Log
Food, water, weight and activity. One tap each. iPhone and Android
Your choice
One tile, any of thirteen numbers.
Pick a Metric
One number, your choice, from thirteen. iPhone only · lock screen on iPhone
Platform differences
Available on both, adapted to each
iPhone and Android widget systems are not the same thing, and a page that says “identical on both” is glossing over the parts you would notice.
Lock screen, and one configurable tile
15 of the 22 have a lock-screen face, in circular, rectangular and inline shapes. “Pick a Metric” is one tile you point at any of thirteen numbers, which Android’s widget system cannot express.
Home screen, resizable, plus Quick Settings
All 21 are home-screen widgets, resizable in both directions. Android also has two Quick Settings tiles, water and fast, that log from the notification shade. iPhone has no equivalent.
The same numbers, the same names
Every fixed widget on one platform has its twin on the other, with one exception each way. The configurable tile is iPhone only, and Today’s Page has its water button on iPhone but not on Android. “Workouts This Week” is called “Training Week” on Android so it does not collide with the streak widget in the picker.
On your wrist and your lock screen
Two more places Loopa shows up
Both are narrower than the app on purpose.
Apple Watch
Log the two things you would not reach for a phone for
The watch app does two things: water, in 8 oz taps, and how you are feeling, on a five-point scale. That is the whole app.
It deliberately shows no totals and no charts. A wrist is a place to record something in two seconds, not a place to read a week. It works on Loopa Basic, and it needs no separate sign-in: your phone hands it the session.
Free · iPhone- Log water in 8 oz taps
- Log how you feel, on a five-point scale
- Included in Loopa Basic
- No separate sign-in
- No complications today
Live Activity
A fasting timer that lives on the lock screen
Start a fast on iPhone and the timer runs on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island until you end it. No opening anything to see how far in you are.
Android gets the same persistent timer as an ongoing notification. The Live Activity and the Dynamic Island are the iPhone-specific part, not the timer itself.
Premium · iPhone- Lock screen and Dynamic Island on iPhone
- An ongoing notification on Android
- Fasting is a Premium feature on both
- There is a second Live Activity for the rest timer between sets
How they stay current
Fresh when it matters, not live to the second
Worth knowing so nothing surprises you.
Immediately
Anything you record, in the app or from a widget, refreshes the widgets that show it.
On purpose
Daily totals roll over on time rather than showing you yesterday’s numbers over breakfast.
Periodically
Android refreshes on a system tick of up to about half an hour. Neither platform’s widget makes a network request of its own, which is why they draw instantly and why they are not a live feed.
Keep reading
What to look at next
FAQ
Questions about widgets and the watch
What people ask before rearranging a home screen.
How many widgets are there?
22 on iPhone and 21 on Android. The one iPhone has that Android does not is “Pick a Metric”, a single configurable tile you point at any of thirteen numbers. Android’s widget system has no equivalent mechanism, so the fixed widgets are matched one for one instead.
Are widgets free?
The widgets themselves carry no paywall at all. A widget shows what your plan already gives you. One backed by a free feature works on Loopa Basic, and one backed by a Premium feature has nothing to draw until you have that feature. Four of them sit on Premium features: fasting, the next dose, and the two training widgets.
Can I log from a widget?
Yes, from three of them. The Water widget adds 8 oz on both platforms without opening the app. The Next dose widget logs a dose the same way. Today’s Page has the same water button on iPhone. The rest open the app to the right screen.
Are there lock-screen widgets?
On iPhone, yes: 15 of the 22 have a lock-screen face. Android has no lock-screen widget of any kind, which is a limitation of the platform rather than something missing from Loopa. Every Android widget is a home-screen widget.
Do vitals or medication names show on the lock screen?
Never, and that is deliberate. A lock screen renders without you unlocking anything, at a distance, to whoever is standing there. So the Vitals widget is home screen only, and the Next dose widget shows the countdown on the lock screen without the compound name. There is no setting that turns this off, because you cannot consent on behalf of the person reading over your shoulder.
What can the Apple Watch app do?
Two things, deliberately: log water in 8 oz taps, and log how you are feeling on a five-point scale. It does not show your totals or your charts. It is the two things worth recording without reaching for a phone. It works on Loopa Basic, and it needs no separate sign-in because your phone hands it the session.
Is there a Live Activity?
Yes, for fasting, on iPhone: the timer runs on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. Android gets the same persistent timer as an ongoing notification rather than a Live Activity. Fasting itself is a Premium feature on both.
How often do widgets update?
They refresh when you log something, whether in the app or from the widget itself, and they roll over at midnight so a daily total never shows you yesterday. Between those, Android refreshes periodically, up to about half an hour. Neither platform’s widget does any network work of its own, which is why they are instant to draw and why they are not live to the second.
Put one on your home screen tonight
22 widgets on iPhone and 21 on Android, an Apple Watch app, and a fasting Live Activity. Adding one costs nothing and changes nothing about your plan.