Chris Raroque

Every time they look and they look at their lock screen, they're probably going to see your widget.

And then when they tap it, it'll do a deep link and open.

It's just such a retention cheat code.

So it's a win-win.

Basically, it makes your app feel more premium when you have it, but also...

it just increases retention dramatically.

I've applied it to all my other apps.

So my daily planning app, we have this widget that shows how many tasks you have left.

Again, custom illustrations done for all the widgets.

And then same thing for my budgeting app, Luna, to see how much you're spending.

There's a lock screen widget.

When I implemented these things, retention, I think it more than doubled, I'm pretty sure, because of this.

Which makes sense in hindsight.

It makes total sense.

People are just reminded of your app's existence.

But

Huge, huge one that I would do.

And then the reason you can do it now is it took me probably four to five hours to make these two widgets for this app because of Cloud Code.

It used to take me, I think this one is the only one I did without any AI assistance because I did it so long ago.

I think it took me like,