Widgey

Support

Updated: 19 October 2026

Widgey is a tiny pixel-art pet that lives in a rectangular Apple Watch complication. You pick it on iPhone and care for it on the Watch.

Get started

1. Open Widgey on your Apple Watch once: your friend is already waiting.
2. On iPhone tap “Incontra il tuo prossimo amico” (Meet your next friend), then “Portalo sul Watch” (Send it to the Watch). Open the Watch app to receive it.
3. Touch and hold the watch face, tap Edit, swipe to Complications, choose a rectangular slot (for example on Modular, Modular Duo or in the Smart Stack) and select “Widgey · Il tuo pet”.

Caring for it

• Snacks: carrot, fish, apple or cookie. Each pet has a favorite; when it is hungry it dreams of it in a thought bubble.
• Play: “Acchiappa la palla” (catch the ball), tap the screen as the ball reaches your pet.
• Sleep and wake up, and read together.
• Care given when it is needed grows your friendship and unlocks a bow, a scarf, a cap and a crown in the wardrobe.
• Twice a day there is a small surprise to look at together. On holidays and on its birthday it dresses up.
• If you are away, it waits for you: it never dies and never loses what it has earned.

If something looks wrong

• The complication says “Apri Widgey sul Watch”: open the app on the Watch once.
• The animation stops: watchOS shows a still frame while the wrist is down or Reduce Motion is on.
• A name or pet chosen on iPhone does not arrive: open Widgey on the Watch with the iPhone nearby.
• The face still shows the old drawing after an update: remove and add the complication again.

Settings

On the Watch, Impostazioni › Fotogrammi; on iPhone, “Fluidità sul quadrante”: 1, 2 or 4 frames per second. More frames are smoother and use more battery.

Compatibility

Requires Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later and iPhone with iOS 17 or later. Widgey adds a complication to existing faces; it is not a watch face. The interface is in Italian.

Contact

Email luca@grokked.it with your Watch model, watchOS version and a description of the problem. See the privacy policy.