Madoro: Cute Pet Face Widget

Your home screen widget doesn't hold a picture of a face. The square is the face. A colored square with big eyes and a small mouth. Leave it alone and it looks around, yawns, gets startled. Every time you unlock your phone it is wearing a slightly different expression. ■ The square is the face There is no artwork placed inside a frame. The widget's square itself is the head. That is why the smallest size suits it best. ■ 36 movements Surprise, a yawn, a wink, humming, a bright idea, hiccups. It stretches in the morning and gets sleepy at night, and it notices the seasons a little. All 36 are in the app from the start. Nothing to unlock, nothing extra to buy. ■ Poke it, and it answers Tap the widget on your home screen and it reacts. A poke draws from 27 of the movements, and it picks one you have not seen before, so every poke fills in one more page of a little book. Poking also raises your bond, slowly, and that unlocks parts coins cannot buy. There is no way to hurry it. What the level shows is how many days you have spent together. ■ 7 personalities Sunny, Mellow, Cool, Cuddly, Rascal, Joker, Sleepyhead. A personality changes how expressions arrive, how the eyes wander, and which movements come up often. The same parts become a different creature. (All but the first two are unlocked with coins.) ■ 130+ parts to dress up Eyes, iris, mouth, cheeks, background, brows, glasses, headwear. Sliders fine-tune how big the eyes are and how far apart they sit, so there are far more faces than there are parts. (Nine parts are there from the start; the rest are unlocked with coins, a Box, or your bond. Brows, glasses and headwear have no free part at all.) You can save up to 12 faces. Pick a different one and the widget on your home screen becomes that one right away. ■ Draw your own face Pen, brush, fill and eraser, used directly on the eyes, mouth and skin. A drawn face blinks and moves like one built from catalog parts. Redrawing is always free. A Face Ticket is spent only when you keep a drawn face in your collection. ■ What this app will not do - No ads. - No gacha, no random purchases. Every Box lists everything inside it. - No account, no sign-in. - It never asks for your camera, photos, location, or notifications. - No name, account, or precise location attached to what it sends. The app does send usage and device data that is not linked to you: which features get used and whether purchases go through or are restored, plus device information such as the model, OS, language, time zone, and accessibility settings. Sending is on by default, and you can switch it off in the app's own Settings tab, under Privacy, Send usage data. Your drawings are never sent. - Nothing to feed. It won't sulk when you're gone. ■ About in-app purchases Coins, which you trade for parts; dress-up Boxes, which are sets of parts that turn your face into a different creature; and Face Tickets, which keep a drawn face in your collection. Every Box shows the name of every part inside it before you buy. Coins never expire. Boxes you have bought come back on a new phone from Settings, Restore Purchases. ■ Good to know - iOS 17.0 or later - Available in English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Filipino, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French and Turkish - How often a widget refreshes is decided by iOS. In Low Power Mode the movements can come further apart. - Widget sizes: small and large.