Your Net Worth, On Your Home Screen: Widgets are here

Some people check their net worth once a year. Some check it once a day. And some check it every time they walk past their phone, just in case retirement got closer while they were making coffee. No judgment.

TrackMyStack already makes that quick, but widgets make it instant. No opening the app, no switching context - just a home-screen glance to decide whether today is an “extra guac” kind of day or a “water is technically free” kind of day.

So we built widgets. They live on your home screen, they update on their own, and they tell you exactly what you want to know without ever launching the app.

What the widgets actually do

There are three things a TrackMyStack widget can show you, and you get to decide which:

Your total net worth. The big number, plus today’s change in both currency and percent. Glance, judge, move on with your life.
Top movers. The holdings pushing your portfolio up or down today, ranked by impact. Great for figuring out which asset deserves a high-five — or a stern talking-to.
A specific portfolio. Same data, but scoped to a single portfolio (your retirement account, your crypto stack, your “I swear I have a thesis” speculative pile, etc.). Add multiple widgets if you want to track several at once.

All values are shown in your home currency, refresh automatically in the background, and tap straight through to the relevant screen in the app.

iOS sizes

iOS gives you one widget — Net Worth — in three sizes:

Small: net worth and daily change.
Medium: net worth, daily change, and your top 4 movers.
Large: net worth, daily change, and your top 9 movers.

Android sizes

Android has two separate widgets so you can mix and match:

Net Worth widget: net worth and daily change. Resizable.
Top Movers widget: a scrollable list of movers — anywhere from 3 to 14 depending on how big you make it.

A quick word on Premium

Widgets themselves are free. Live prices and the top movers data are part of TrackMyStack Premium, the same as everywhere else in the app. Free users still get net worth widgets with end-of-day prices, which is honestly fine for most days. The market is closed at 3 a.m. anyway.

Long-press an empty spot on your home screen until the icons start wiggling.
Tap the + in the top-left corner.
Search for TrackMyStack, or scroll until you find it.
Pick the size you want — Small, Medium, or Large — and tap Add Widget.
Tap the new widget once it’s placed, then choose Total or a specific portfolio.
Tap anywhere outside to lock it in. Done.

To change which portfolio a widget shows later, long-press it and choose Edit Widget.

Long-press an empty spot on your home screen.
Tap Widgets in the menu that appears.
Scroll to TrackMyStack and pick either the Net Worth widget or the Top Movers widget.
Drag it to wherever you want it on the home screen.
The configuration screen pops up — pick Account Total or a specific portfolio, then tap Save.
Resize it by long-pressing and dragging the edges if you want more (or less) data on screen.

To reconfigure later on most Android launchers, long-press the widget and tap the small settings/cog icon.

Things worth knowing

You need to be logged in. Widgets pull data from your account, so if the app is logged out, the widget will politely ask you to sign in.
They refresh roughly every 30 minutes in the background. You can also tap the refresh button on the widget itself if you’re feeling impatient.
They’re cached. If your phone is offline, you’ll still see the last known values rather than an empty rectangle of sadness.
Multiple widgets work fine. Stack a total widget, a per-portfolio widget, and a movers widget if you really want a financial command center on your home screen. We won’t judge.

Try it out

Update to the latest version of TrackMyStack, add a widget, and never open the app to check your balance again — until something interesting happens, anyway. We’d love to see how you set yours up.