

I listen to music almost all day long, so what if I just put a music visualizer on there? An idle curiosity of 2003 was now to be my workplace productivity boon in 2019,” Rousseau writes. Something that wouldn’t be distracting, but that I could just put my eyes on when I’m trying to sort through some thoughts in my head. What if, instead of using a computer screen to remind me how scatterbrained and disorganized my life is, I could use it to just look at something. WidgetPod is available for free on the App Store, but Spotify compatibility requires a $1.99 in-app purchase.“I would like to talk about music visualizers, those wild and trippy things that came loaded with your favorite media player of choice back in the early ’00s,” Steve Rousseau writes for Digg. But that doesn’t make the app any less cool. Unfortunately, since the widgets in iOS 14 are not designed to have constant interaction, I’ve been experiencing some glitches when using WidgetPod - such as weird animations when tapping the play/pause buttons. For instance, I’ve created a medium-sized widget that shows the Now Playing song and also offers media controls, while I also have a smaller-sized widget that only shows the album artwork and the name of the song. There are small and medium-sized widgets, and I’ve been enjoying all the possibilities WidgetPod offers. It also lets you change the accent color of buttons and text, or even add a background image. Users can set the widget theme to light, dark, or even choose a custom background color. Once you open the app for the first time, WidgetPod lets you create your own music widgets to add to the iOS home screen. The app was built by Aditya Rajveer, the same developer as the Marvis Pro music player. There are other apps that offer Now Playing widgets, but WidgetPod is focused on just that - and it offers great customization options for changing the style of the available widgets. WidgetPod is a new app that comes to solve exactly that with a Now Playing widget that works for both Apple Music and Spotify. However, one of my main complaints against the official Music widget is that it only shows the recently played songs. IOS 14 brought the ability to add widgets to the iPhone and iPad Home screen, and Apple itself offers some widgets for apps like Notes, Reminders, and Music.
