Backtick vs Clearwing

Backtick turns your home and lock screen into a terminal. Not a picture of one — a working one. Panels drawn with hairline rules, a tab bar you actually tap, a cursor that genuinely blinks, and your real life inside it: calendar, reminders, weather, steps, battery — and now your GitHub, your focus sessions and anything your automations want to say. FULL-PAGE WIDGETS (iOS 27) The Terminal fills an entire home screen page — now, next up, tasks, weather and system as one live session. The Console goes full page too, with bit idling above the menu. THE WIDGETS — 35 OF THEM • Terminal — five panels switched by tapping tabs on the widget; small, medium, large and full page • Console — a navigable menu: arrows move, enter selects, esc backs out, without opening an app • git log — your GitHub contribution graph, streak and recent activity • focus — one tap starts a timer, with a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island • curl — any number from a JSON endpoint you choose, with a sparkline of recent values • echo — shows whatever you send it from Shortcuts; build automations that write to your home and lock screen • Weather — current, hourly and forecast; the small one pages when you tap it • Clock — a live 7-segment face with ticking seconds, zero battery cost, 12h or 24h • Countdown — days to a date you pick; ticks live on the final day, counts up after • Daylight — sunrise to sunset as a gauge, golden hour, light left • Year Progress — every day of the year as a dot; watch it fill • Elapsed — day, week, month and year as block gauges • Month — the full month with event markers • Timeline — upcoming events with durations drawn to scale • Steps — today's count and distance, with the week as bars • Disk — storage as a block gauge • Moon — tonight's phase as a dot matrix • motd — a daily line from bit, free • bit — a resident terminal creature. It has moods, it types little lines, its heartbeat blinks, and it reacts when you poke it. Bond over time. LOCK SCREEN Nine rectangular widgets (next up, tasks, weather, forecast, hourly, elapsed, battery, daylight, echo), six circular gauges, and inline status lines. STANDBY Charge your phone on its side and the Terminal, Weather, Clock and bit widgets switch to big, glanceable layouts you can read from across the room. THEMES Six full terminal palettes — Dracula, Gruvbox, Nord, Solarized, Catppuccin and Tokyo Night — or classic true black with one of five accent phosphors. Every widget follows instantly. SHORTCUTS, SIRI & CONTROL CENTER • "Set Backtick Message" puts any text on the echo widgets — when you arrive at work, when your battery runs low, whenever • Start or stop a focus session from Siri, Shortcuts or Control Center • Tick your top task, poke bit, or jump to your agenda from Control Center or the Action button BUILT LIKE A TOOL • Tick reminders off from the widget — writes straight to Apple Reminders • Tap a section to open YOUR apps: choose which calendar, reminders and weather apps widget taps launch • Battery, weather and steps refresh in the background through the day • Live clocks, countdowns and a blinking cursor with zero widget refreshes • True black. Made for OLED and dark home screens. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION • No account, no sign-in, no Backtick server — there isn't one • Calendar, reminders, steps and device stats are read on-device via Apple's frameworks • Weather comes from Apple Weather using your approximate location • git log and curl talk only to the addresses you give them; an optional GitHub token stays in your phone's keychain • Nothing is collected. There is nowhere to collect it to. FREE / PRO The Terminal widget, Next Up, the inline status line, motd and the classic amber theme are free forever. One purchase unlocks everything else — every widget, every palette — no subscription, no upsell treadmill. — Privacy policy: https://backtick.app/privacy.html Terms of use: https://backtick.app/terms.html

Your Home Screen, finally quiet. Clearwing is a collection of 21 widgets that look truly transparent: clocks, calendars, countdowns, a moon phase, a photo, floating on your wallpaper with nothing around them. And the part nobody else fixed: there is no app name under them. iOS prints the app's name beneath every widget, which ruins the clean look unless you switch to large icons. Clearwing's own name is invisible, so its widgets carry no label and you keep your small icons. 21 WIDGETS • Invisible spacer: pure wallpaper, for airy layouts • Clocks: digital, a minimal analog dial, a word clock that says half past nine, and a binary clock in glowing bits • Day & Time: the date and the clock in one glance • Date, Weekday written large, and a monthly Calendar with today circled • This Week strip and the week number • Countdown with a progress ring, and Days Since for streaks and anniversaries • Year Progress, Day Progress, and a Year Grid with one dot for every day • Moon: tonight's phase, computed on your device • Daily line: one calm sentence a day • Photo in a floating frame, arch, circle, or tilted polaroid • Monogram with your initials • Battery in a glowing ring FIFTEEN LOOKS FOR EVERY WIDGET Retro Pixel is the signature default, and every widget also comes in Minimal, Editorial serif, Bold, frosted Glass, Handwritten, Script calligraphy, Typewriter, Neon, Couture fashion serif, Engraved, Chalk, Marker, Retro geometric, and Poster. Browse the whole collection in the built-in gallery, rendered live on your own wallpaper, then pick looks and tones per widget. A frosted-glass backdrop option gives you the soft blurred-wallpaper card style too. SET UP IN A MINUTE iOS does not allow real see-through widgets, so Clearwing recreates your wallpaper behind each one, pixel for pixel. Take one screenshot of an empty Home Screen page, import it, and place your widgets. A built-in fine-tune editor nudges the alignment if your device sits a pixel off, and switching between small and large icon modes is one tap. WRITTEN ON YOUR IPHONE On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, the Daily Line widget writes a fresh calm line every day, entirely on-device. Without it, a curated pack takes over seamlessly. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE • Clearwing contains zero networking code, so nothing can leave your iPhone • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking • Your wallpaper and photos stay in the app's private container • Delete the app and every trace is gone Free. No subscription. No catch. Your wallpaper deserves the whole screen.