Crisp Widget for Text
Support

Touch and hold an empty spot on your home screen, choose "Widgets", pick Crisp Widget for Text, and drag it to where you want it. You can also open the app and use "Add to Home Screen" on the settings screen (this does not work with some home screen apps).
Once it is placed, touch and hold the widget to resize it.

Opening the app takes you to the settings screen. Change the font, color and opacity, size and more while watching the preview at the top, then tap "Apply & Save" to update the widget. If you have more than one widget, choose the one you want to change in the selector at the top.

If your text contains the time (such as {TIME}), updating exactly on every minute while the phone is asleep requires Android's "Alarms & reminders" permission (Android 12 and later).

• Where to allow it: Settings → Apps → Crisp Widget for Text → Alarms & reminders → On (The name and location vary slightly by manufacturer. Search for "Alarms & reminders" in the Settings app to find it.)
• The app works without this permission, but the time can be up to about a minute late until you turn on the screen. It returns to the correct time when the screen turns on.

The prompt is shown only the first time. You can allow it at any time later with the steps above. When you turn the permission on or off, the app detects it automatically and switches how it updates.

This is because the app uses Android's "alarm" mechanism to update widgets that show the time accurately. No alarm will actually ring.
The icon disappears when there are no widgets with the time on your home screen. Tap the icon to open the app.

Some manufacturers such as Xiaomi, OPPO and ASUS stop apps with their own battery-saving features.

• Set this app to "Don't optimize" in "Battery optimization"
• If your phone has a manufacturer-specific "Autostart" setting, turn it on

Also, if the app is stopped with "Force stop" or a cleaner app, its scheduled updates are cleared. Opening the app once restores them.

It changes at midnight in that city (not at midnight where you live).

The number of texts and widgets, time and date tags, and color, size, line height, letter spacing and alignment settings are all free. Two fonts are available (system default and Shippori Mincho).
A single in-app purchase (one-time, not a subscription) unlocks the following:

• Checkboxes and bullets (start a line with "[ ] " or "- ", and tap a line on the widget to check it). A line with only "---" becomes a horizontal rule (all paid version)
• All 25 fonts
• Opening any app by tapping the widget (per widget or per line)

During the test period, all features are available.

Select the text in the input field and choose a font from [Aa Font] in the toolbar below. If you tap it without selecting anything, the whole line with the cursor changes. Choose "Same as the whole widget" to go back. The font for the whole widget is chosen under FONT below.

Put the cursor on the line you want to change and choose an app from [↗ App] in the toolbar (paid version). Lines with an app set show the app's icon at the start of the line in the input field. Tap it again to change or remove it.

• Apps open per line of the widget (you cannot set one for only part of a line)
• Checkbox lines cannot have an app, because tapping them checks them off
• When lines have apps set, the widget-wide "Launch app" is not used. Tapping a line without an app, or empty space, opens the settings screen

Use the sun and moon buttons at the top right of the input field to switch the preview backdrop between light and dark. This backdrop only changes how things look inside the app; it does not change your home screen wallpaper or the widget's background. Change the widget's background with "Background color" below.