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Just works

Does what it says and has lots of customization options for fonts and display styles. Looks great on lock screen too.

Awesome app

A great app, would love to see the circular watch complications supported, even just an emoji would be useful

Very useful and simple to use

I really appreciate how easy the UI is to update the widget text, especially on the Apple Watch app.
It only takes a few taps and the interface is designed in a way that actually makes sense. You can tell the developer knows how to work around a lot of the bugs that plague other apps, usually because of Apple's bad coding.
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So useful

This is a fantastic utility. It's useful at a basic level - for example having a widget reminding me to buy milk or my hotel room number on my watch and phone. Its real power comes from its integration with Apple shortcuts. I interrogate a web API in an automation and - if the result needs my attention - I can not only change the text of a widget but also have it appear as a live event on my phone, watch and Mac. Amazing! So many potential uses.
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not as promised

It’s literally just static. Would be useful if you could have it update based on events, triggers, days, that kinda thing. But £4 to show a single fixed line of text is beyond a joke. Do not bother. Use scriptable

The best app.

최고의 앱. 미친 개발자

То что нужно

Идеальная аппка, чтобы размещать плитки с текстом на домашнем экране. Кастомизация довольно гибкая

Great for what I need

I wanted this app just to categorize my iPhone screens, and it did exactly that. I had asked a question about a specific function, and they responded promptly. Although the app couldn’t fulfill my request due to iOS limitations, I still give it a 5-star rating because it still meets my needs, and the customer service is excellent!
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Great little app. Best in class!

I appreciate the simplicity and flexibility of this app. Does exactly what I need. Has many more creative uses as well. IMHO well worth the money!

Not displaying

Does not work for me, text not showing on Lock Screen. iOS 18.4.1 on iPhone 14 max pro

Response from developer

You have to add the widget to the Lock Screen. If the widget does not show up in the picker, try restarting your device.

Surprisingly useful!!

My wife and I recently had our first child and when she heads to sleep with our daughter, I occasionally miss important text message notifications from her. I'll have "announce notifications" on, not silenced and somehow I kept having to constantly look at my phone and manually check for messages. Sometimes the notification on the Home Screen would get pushed down so I would open the messages app just to be safe. Too often I didn't see a timely text message until later than I would have liked.

Enter Any Text to the rescue!!

I have a Shortcuts Personal Automation that sets an Any Text widget to the last message my wife sent me. Paired with a Lock Screen widget (for normal use) and even better, a Standby widget (for when I'm working or sleeping) I can take a breath and rest assured that the last message my wife sent me will *ALWAYS* be visible on my screen. It's so simple and so friggin effective and useful.

The only issue for me was that Shortcuts always wants to display a notification telling you the personal automation has just run. This was so annoying but I found out that you can turn off notifications for the Shortcuts app altogether via a tricky little route through Screen Time - google it if you would like to do the same.
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Would be perfect with live activities

SIMPLE. ONE TIME PAYMENT.

With live activities this would be the perfect app, I honestly kind of bought this app expecting its going to be added in the future. it feels like such an obvious feature to have for this type of app.

To Increase the number slides

There is a restriction to add only 10 slides. Can not be added more than that. Remove the constraint…

Wasn’t easy for me to apply

It took me a while to work out how to apply this app in a way I was vaguely happy with .

Response from developer

I’m guessing the widget did not show up in the widget picker. That’s an iOS bug and unrelated to the app. Usually a device restart fixes this.

Easy to use

Really great and simple to use

Almost impossible to work

I downloaded this app but I literally can’t get it to work . Impossible! Waste of money

It works

I have no regrets only joy lol thnx guys.

Exceptional app but 2 areas

Why did you make this a paid app on iPad and why do you have to have iOS 18

Live Activities please!

I would love to show some text temporarily in a Live Activity (via Shortcuts) instead of keeping a permanent lock screen widget just for this. Thanks!

Exactly what I needed

This app is perfect for my goal of displaying a daily Quote as a complication on my watchface. I love that it is scriptable and didn't require a subscription. Thank you so much!