Widgets, privacy and your account
Penge widgets on your Home Screen
Penge has eight widgets and four Control Center controls. They read a snapshot the app writes, so your balance, your spending and your uncategorized backlog stay visible without opening Penge.
How do you add a Penge widget?
Widgets are added the normal way, from the Home Screen widget gallery, not from inside Penge. Touch and hold an empty spot on your Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and search for Penge. Pick a widget and a size, then tap Add Widget.
To change one later, touch and hold it and choose Edit Widget. The Widgets page in Settings draws every widget with your own numbers, which is the quickest way to decide which one you want.
The eight widgets
| Widget | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Balance | Your total across every account, with a 30-day line. Edit Widget can pin it to chosen accounts. |
| Spent This Month | Expenses so far this month, with a running total and a dashed comparison line. |
| Budget Progress | A ring per budget. One on the small size, up to three on the medium. |
| Spending Pace | Your spending per day against what you would normally have spent by today. |
| Top Categories | This month by category: three rows on the small size, five on the medium. |
| Monthly Summary | Income, expenses and the savings rate for the last completed month. |
| Uncategorized Transactions | How many transactions still have no category. |
| Categorize | One uncategorized transaction with category buttons you can tap. |
Categorize from the widget
- Add the Categorize widget in small, medium or large. The header reads To categorize.
- Tap the category that fits. Penge's own suggestion comes first, drawn with a stronger tint, and the rest are the categories you use most.
- The widget shows a check mark with the category it went to, then slides in the next transaction.
- Tap the skip arrow, or Skip for now on the large size, to pass on one you are not ready to decide.
- Tap the transaction itself to open it in Transactions and reach a category the widget did not offer.
- Open Penge. A message tells you how many of your widget taps were applied.
Good to know
- A tap is queued, not saved. Penge writes it to your account the next time you open the app, and a transaction that got a category in the meantime is dropped without a word.
- Skipping is temporary by design. Opening Penge clears your skips and the transaction comes back.
- The medium size has room for two category buttons. Only the large size shows three.
- On the Lock Screen the Categorize widget is read-only: the transaction and the amount, no buttons.
Penge in Control Center
Four controls ship alongside the widgets. Swipe down from the top-right corner, touch and hold, then tap Add a Control and search for Penge. The same four can go on your Lock Screen or on the Action Button.
- Categorize shows how many transactions are waiting, and opens them.
- Add transaction opens Penge ready for a new transaction.
- Balance shows your total balance, right in Control Center.
- Hide amounts masks amounts everywhere with one tap, without opening the app.
A control cannot move you around on its own. It leaves a route behind, so Penge opens on the screen you left it on and then jumps. Flipping Hide amounts from Control Center while Penge is running does not change the open app; it catches up the next time you open it.
Get a full overview with Penge
Connect your bank and let the app categorize and budget automatically.
Questions about this
- Why is my widget showing a dash?
- The month-scoped widgets fall back to a placeholder when the snapshot Penge last wrote is from an earlier calendar month, rather than showing you stale figures. Open Penge once and the numbers come back. The Widgets page in Settings shows when the snapshot was written and has a Refresh widgets now button.
- Do the widgets work when Penge is closed?
- Yes. They read a snapshot the app writes when your statistics finish recalculating, never the database itself. They refresh at most every half hour, and always at the start of the next day, within whatever budget iOS allows. Nothing is live.
- Which widgets can I change in Edit Widget?
- Balance takes Accounts, Spent This Month takes Compare with, Budget Progress takes Budgets and Show, Spending Pace takes Monthly target, Top Categories takes Period and Leave out, and Categorize takes Start with. Monthly Summary and Uncategorized Transactions have no options at all.
- Can the Widgets page in Settings place a widget for me?
- No. It is a preview and an explainer. iOS gives an app no way to place a widget or open Edit Widget, so the page shows you what each widget looks like with your own data and leaves the placing to the widget gallery.