# iOS widgets, notifications, Watch app, other features **URL:** \ **Category:** Suggestions\ **Created:** [March 23, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ios-widgets-notifications-watch-app-other-features/57853 "2025-03-23T17:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kickflip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@kickflip](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/kickflip)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ios-widgets-notifications-watch-app-other-features/57853/1 "2025-03-23T17:49:20Z")
I’m happy to support development by paying a high price for the iOS app given how helpful Anki has been for me overall and how it’s completely free on desktop. The Anki experience as a whole more than justifies $30, but I do wish the iOS app had more features to justify its cost specifically. A few things I can think of that would really improve my experience: - Widgets that show your cards throughout the day to passively refresh you. I understand for some decks this may be quite challenging technically, but I have seen some pretty complex widgets, some of which are interactive and allow you to tap a button to change info. It’d be awesome to see my cards and tap the button to flip or go to the next card. - Similarly, an optional notification with a random card selected as a quiz question, like “do you remember what this means?” with a display of the card attached. - A Watch app similarly would be challenging but appreciated. I don’t necessarily need to sit there answering cards on that tiny display but having Anki display the text of a card as a widget that rotates on a complication would be cool. Perhaps to mitigate the complexity of these features, they could explicitly only work with decks that use a specific template. I would not mind building out a separate deck specifically to work with features like this. Like I assume one for widgets would need to forgo most multimedia or complex formatting, the Watch one would need a tight character limit, etc. I could even see basic features like showing a badge notification for how many cards you have left today or just basic notifications at a set time that gets sent out if you haven’t finished yet today. Stuff like that would go a long way imo. I know that with the nature of Anki being a wildly customizable flash card app, where a given card could have formatted text, HTML, audio, images, etc, it’s not realistic to expect it to do everything. I enjoy the app quite a bit already. But it would just be cool to see it take a little more advantage of the iOS platform. Right now I have to seek out other apps to fill in these gaps, which isn’t the worst thing in the world but I’d rather use Anki for a more curated experience. ---
**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ios-widgets-notifications-watch-app-other-features/57853/2 "2025-03-25T21:19:52Z")
Related threads: > [@Feature request: Apple watch version?](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/feature-request-apple-watch-version/10031/21): > > [@AnkiMobile widget](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankimobile-widget/32633/2): > > Thank you for the suggestion, I will keep an eye on demand for this. ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ios-widgets-notifications-watch-app-other-features/57853/3 "2025-08-19T06:42:48Z")
> [@kickflip](#): > > Widgets that show your cards throughout the day to passively refresh you. I’m afraid I’m rather skeptical about the actual efficacy of such a study approach. I don’t think passive exposure without active recall is going to do much, and if you’re actively testing yourself, you’re either a) sprinkling your due cards out throughout the day, incurring extra context switching overhead, or b) studying them more than before, which like cramming, tends not to be the best use of your time. > [@kickflip](#): > > I could even see basic features like showing a badge notification for how many cards you have left today or just basic notifications at a set time that gets sent out if you haven’t finished yet today. Stuff like that would go a long way imo. You’re probably already aware, but in case you’re not: in the preferences screen, there are existing options to display a due count on the badge, and send a daily reminder at a configured time. ---
**Author:** ![jiripik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/jiripik/32/32217_2.png) [@jiripik](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jiripik)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 3:03am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ios-widgets-notifications-watch-app-other-features/57853/4 "2025-12-26T03:03:31Z")
Would it be possible to display the number of outstanding / overdue / scheduled items for today above the Anki icon as a badge as is usual in iOS? ---
**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ios-widgets-notifications-watch-app-other-features/57853/5 "2025-12-26T04:44:27Z")
I merged your post here. See: > [@dae](#): > > in the preferences screen, there are existing options to display a due count on the badge ---
**Author:** ![jiripik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/jiripik/32/32217_2.png) [@jiripik](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/jiripik)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ios-widgets-notifications-watch-app-other-features/57853/6 "2025-12-30T00:35:26Z")
Thank you, I found it! However, it does not work as expected - the number of outstanding items on the badge is refreshed at some odd hour - not in the morning local time zone - can you please fix?