Part of the Loopa app guide. Also on Android.
The Home Screen widgets are the small Loopa glance panels you can pin to your phone's Home Screen. There are nineteen to choose from on iOS and eighteen on Android, one for nearly every number Loopa tracks, so you can put the one you actually check where you will see it. On iOS they also work on the Lock Screen, and the Fasting Live Activity appears on its own while a fast is running.
Every widget paints instantly from a snapshot the app keeps up to date, so it never sits blank while it thinks. A few carry a button that logs without opening the app. For the app itself, start at Using the iOS app or Using the Android app.
General wellness tracking, not medical advice.
The full list
The gallery is grouped the way you would look for something.
Fuel and macros
- Fuel: calories left today, with protein, carbs and fat gauges. Small, medium, and Lock Screen rectangular.
- Eaten Today: calories logged so far. Small, Lock Screen circular and inline.
- Protein: protein logged today against your target. Small, medium, and all three Lock Screen shapes.
- Net Carbs: net carbs against your target. Small, medium, Lock Screen circular and rectangular.
- Fat: fat against your target. Same sizes as Net Carbs.
- Macros: protein, carbs and fat side by side. Small, medium, large, Lock Screen rectangular.
Hydration and movement
- Water: today's hydration ring, one tap from +8 oz. Small, medium, Lock Screen circular and inline.
- Steps: today's steps against a 10,000 mark. Small, medium, and all three Lock Screen shapes.
Body
- Weight: current weight and the 7-day trend. Small, Lock Screen circular, rectangular and inline.
- Weight Trend: your latest weigh-in against the 7-day average, which is the number that ignores daily noise. Small, medium, Lock Screen rectangular and inline.
Rhythm
- Fasting: hours elapsed in your current fasting window. Small, medium, and all three Lock Screen shapes.
- Days Logged: how many days you have on record. Small, Lock Screen circular and inline.
- This Week: your logging streak and the last seven days as dots. Small and medium.
Vitals
- Vitals: your latest blood pressure and resting heart rate with a seven-day direction. Medium only, and deliberately never on the Lock Screen.
Glucose and INR are handled differently from the rest. They show when the reading was taken rather than the reading itself, because a number on your Home Screen is readable by anyone who glances at your phone. The full values are in the app on The Vitals screen.
The whole day at once
- Today's Page: water, fuel and movement in one glance, the same opening view as Today's Page in the app. Medium.
- Today's Rings: fuel, water and movement as three rings. Small, medium, large.
- What's Left: calories, protein and water still to go today. Small, medium, large, Lock Screen rectangular.
Getting somewhere fast
- Quick Log: food, water, weight and activity, one tap each. Medium. The buttons open the right screen rather than logging blind, because Loopa has to ask what you ate.
Pick a Metric (iOS only)
Pick a Metric is the one configurable widget. Add it, then choose which number it shows: calories, a macro, water, steps, weight, fasting or your streak. It comes in every size including all three Lock Screen shapes. It exists for people who would rather choose than scroll the gallery.
This is the one widget with no Android counterpart, because Android widgets have no equivalent way to be configured after you place them. Everything it can show is available as its own fixed widget on both platforms.
The ones you can tap
Water and Today's Page each carry a +8 button. Tapping it puts 8 ounces straight into today's log and repaints every Loopa widget right away. The app never opens. It is the same action Siri uses (see Siri and Shortcuts).
Everything else is read-only by design. A widget button should either finish the job or not pretend to: logging water can finish without asking anything, whereas "add food" cannot, so those tiles open the app instead.
Adding a widget
On iPhone: touch and hold an empty part of the Home Screen until the icons jiggle, tap the + in the corner, search for "Loopa", swipe between the sizes for the widget you want, then tap Add Widget.
For a Lock Screen widget, touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize, choose the widget area, and pick the Loopa circular, rectangular or inline widget there.
On Android: touch and hold an empty part of the Home screen, tap Widgets, scroll to Loopa, then touch and hold the one you want and drag it into place. Android has no Lock Screen widgets, so the Lock Screen sizes above are iOS only.
How the numbers stay current
Each widget draws immediately from a snapshot the app writes to shared storage, which is why it is never blank. On top of that it refreshes from your account whenever it can: on a roughly 15-minute cadence, and again every time you log something in the app, from a widget button, through Siri, or on the Watch. Adding water from a widget reloads all of them at once.
Before you sign in
If you have not signed in yet, or the app has not pulled its first summary, a widget shows a "Signed out" card asking you to open Loopa. Once you are signed in and have logged or synced anything, the real numbers take over.
