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This one installs over 1.5 and keeps your widgets. And PokéWidget now runs on Windows too.
Android 8.0 and up · PokeWidget-1.6.apk
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit · PokeWidget-1.6-windows-setup.exe
A .sha256 is attached next to each if you want to check what you downloaded.
New
- PokéWidget on Windows. Widgets sit right on your desktop, on the wallpaper under your open apps, like a widget on a phone's home screen — no frame, no taskbar button, no background unless you pick one. Drag one anywhere by the Pokémon itself, pull its corner to resize it, and hover it to edit or take it off the desktop. Pin it to float it above every window while you work. Widgets come back after a restart, where you left them, and a tray icon keeps PokéWidget running with the settings window closed.
- Surprise me. A new choice under "When tapped": each tap swaps the Pokémon on the widget for a random one and plays the newcomer's cry. It replaces the sprite — it never adds a second one. Pick from every Pokémon, or from a shortlist of up to ten of your own with "Only my picks".
- Use my location. Live forms can follow the weather where you are, without typing a city. It asks for permission only when you tap the button, reads your position once, and keeps only the city.
- Live forms keep the city's clock. Lycanroc, Shaymin, Morpeko and Castform now follow the time of day and sunrise of the city you chose, not your own — and Settings shows the time there so you can check.
- Every tap action on the desktop too, Surprise me and live forms included.
Fixed
- Nothing waits for a download when you tap. Your Surprise me picks, every form a live form can switch to, and the shiny or back sprite a tap toggles to are all downloaded ahead of time, cries included. A Pokémon with no Game Boy cry has its modern one ready before you tap, instead of finding out then.
- No more "app not responding" on Use my location. Finding where you are could freeze the app for a few seconds on some phones. If the app ever does freeze, Settings now keeps a report of it, the way it already did for crashes.
- Cities you couldn't find. "Richmond VA" found Richmond Vale in the Caribbean, and "Richmond Virginia" found nothing. City search now understands state, province and country names and abbreviations.
- The weather card fits the city on one line, and says it updates itself about once an hour, so "Check now" is only for when you can't wait.
- Trainers load on restrictive networks. On school and office networks that block their hosts, trainer sprites and a few sprite sets now come through another route instead of never appearing.
- A short note under "Add to home screen" says a new widget can take a few seconds to appear the first time, while its animation and cry download.
Nothing changes unless you want it to
A widget you've already placed looks and behaves exactly as before. Tapping still plays the cry until you choose another tap action, and nothing asks for your location unless you tap the button.
Installing on Windows
The installer isn't signed by a big publisher yet, so Windows may say it protected your PC. Click More info, then Run anyway. Then make a widget and put it on the desktop.
Mac
Coming soon. A test build is going out to Discord testers first — if it holds up, it ships in the next release.
Sprites and cries download on first use and are cached, so a placed widget keeps animating offline. Trainer sprites and battle backgrounds come from Pokémon Showdown; trainers seen from behind from the pret decompilations; scenery from PokéRogue, whose art is CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. Weather from Open-Meteo.
If PokéWidget made your home screen a little better, you can buy me a coffee.
Unofficial fan project. No affiliation with Nintendo, Creatures Inc. or GAME FREAK inc.