What does the VSkip Home Screen widget show?

Today's voice message digest. The small widget shows your latest voice and a today-count badge. The medium widget switches to a 'Today's Digest' layout when you have 2+ voices, showing up to three one-liners with sentiment icons and timestamps. The large widget lists up to five voices with sentiment colors and relative timestamps. Tapping any size opens the full digest sheet in the app.

What sizes does the widget support?

Three sizes — small, medium, and large. Each is optimized for a different reading surface: small fits a Home Screen corner, medium is a single-row card, large takes a Home Screen column. You can install multiple sizes at the same time if you want. All three read from the same shared history store, so they stay in sync.

Which languages does the widget support?

Five languages out of the box: English, Russian, German, Spanish, French. The widget picks up your iOS system language automatically — no configuration needed. Headers, stat pills, timestamps, and empty states all localize.

How often does the widget refresh?

Every 30 minutes, plus always at the next midnight so the 'today' bucket resets without waiting for a background tick. Sharing a new voice through the VSkip extension refreshes all installed widgets immediately — they read from the same App Group storage.

Do I need a subscription to use the widget?

The widget itself is free to install. The data it displays comes from your VSkip voice message summaries — during the 7-day free trial every feature is unlocked; after trial paid plans keep the widget populated by unlimiting your summaries.

Can I pin a specific summary to the Home Screen instead of today's digest?

The medium widget falls back to a last-summary view when you only have one voice today — the old v1.0 behavior. If you habitually have only one or two voices per day, the small widget's today-count badge plus last-summary body is usually the right choice. For power users who get many voices per day, the medium or large size is designed to surface the full digest.

Feature · New in 1.1+

Today's voices on your Home Screen.

VSkip's Home Screen widget turns a glance at your iPhone into a catch-up moment. Three sizes, five languages, sentiment colors, and one-tap deep link to the full digest — without ever opening the app first.

VSkip 1.1.3+ · iOS 17+ · Small · Medium · Large

What each size does

Every size reads from the same on-device digest store — same data, different density.

Small — the glance

Top-right corner of your Home Screen. Shows your most recent voice message summary, with a today-count badge in the header so you always know how many are waiting. Perfect if you already read voices as they arrive but want a passive "did anything come in" indicator.

Medium — the catch-up

Single-row card. Shows a header stat row (today's count, urgent count if any, time-saved badge) plus the three most recent voices as one-liners with sentiment icons and relative timestamps. Falls back to the small-widget's last-summary layout if you only have one voice today — no awkward empty rows.

Large — the full digest

Column-sized card. Shows the full today's digest — up to five voices with sentiment color, summary text, and relative timestamp. Empty state prompts a first share for new users. This is the size for power users (parents in big family chats, remote teams, voice-heavy professions) who get five-plus voices a day.

Sentiment colors

Every voice in the widget carries a small sentiment icon in one of five colors:

Red — urgent or angry, triage first
Orange — friendly / high-energy
Green — calm
Indigo — neutral

It's the same sentiment that drives the in-app badge + Daily Digest push threshold. Seeing a red dot in the corner of your Home Screen at 4 PM is usually enough to trigger "OK let me actually listen to this one."

Languages

The widget localizes into the five App Store locales: English, Russian, German, Spanish, French. iOS picks your system language automatically — no per-widget settings.

Plan: additional locales ride with the parent app's localization expansion. If your language isn't supported yet, the widget falls back to English rather than breaking.

Refresh behavior

Widgets refresh on iOS's own rhythm, not ours — Apple rate-limits widget timeline refreshes. VSkip's timeline policy requests a reload every 30 minutes, or at the next midnight (whichever is sooner), so the "today" bucket resets cleanly when you wake up the next morning.

In addition, sharing a new voice through the VSkip Share Extension triggers an immediate WidgetKit reload — the widget updates within a second or two, not on the 30-minute cadence.

Tap-to-open

Every widget is a single tap away from the full digest sheet. When the widget has today's content (≥2 voices), tapping opens vskip://digest — the full Digest sheet with action items, copy/share, and the ability to mark items as addressed. When the widget is empty, tapping opens the main VSkip screen so you can share your first voice.

Back Tap · Action Button

The same vskip:// URL scheme the widget uses is available for Back Tap, the iPhone 15/16 Pro Action Button, and any iOS Shortcut. VSkip Settings → Quick Access gives you tap-to-copy for three common URLs:

vskip://digest — opens today's digest sheet
vskip://dictate — opens the dictation recorder
vskip://open — opens the main summarize screen

Paste any of these into a one-step Shortcut ("Open URL"), then bind that Shortcut to Back Tap (Settings → Accessibility → Touch → Back Tap) or the Action Button slider (Settings → Action Button). Two taps on the back of your phone → you're in today's digest. No Home Screen real estate needed at all.

Installing the widget

Long-press an empty area on your Home Screen until the icons wiggle.
Tap the + in the top-left corner.
Search for VSkip.
Swipe between Small / Medium / Large to pick a size.
Tap Add Widget. Done — no configuration.

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Widget, Daily Digest, 7 templates, AI Chat, Action Items, and more — every feature unlocked during the 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime in Settings.

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