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Widget: Starting timers by just one tap on the widget on Apple Watch and iPhone

Feature Request

Hi Habitify Team, First of all, thank you for creating what I believe is the best app for motivation and habit tracking out there. I especially love how you integrated timers — they make daily routines much more engaging and intentional. However, I’d like to share one point about the Apple Watch version. While the app is beautiful, it currently requires too many actions to achieve a simple result. For example, I have a widget on my watch for my “Read 30 minutes a day” habit. Ideally, I’d love to tap this widget and start the timer right away. But at the moment, I need to:

  1. Tap the widget,

  2. Open the full list of habits,

  3. Find the one I need,

  4. Scroll down to the timer button,

  5. Press it,

  6. Swipe right to the stopwatch,

  7. And finally, start it. That’s quite a long path for something so simple. I realize timers and stopwatches aren’t needed by everyone, but having more flexible widget options would make the Apple Watch experience much smoother. On iPhone, launching the timer from a widget takes about half as many steps, which feels much more convenient. It would be wonderful if in future updates, timers could start (or habits could be marked as completed) directly from widgets — without opening the full app. From what I understand, this kind of functionality is already in development, and I’m really looking forward to seeing it implemented. Thanks again for continuously improving Habitify — it’s an essential tool in my daily routine.

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  • Andrey Korneev

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    Apr 13

    I completely agree with this feedback. Starting a timer on Apple Watch should be much simpler — ideally, a widget should let you launch a habit timer in just one tap. That would be a major breakthrough in usability and make the watch experience much more seamless and intuitive. Right now, the number of steps creates unnecessary friction for something that should feel instant and effortless.