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Devices & Widgets

iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and widgets. 6 answers.

Does it work on iPad, Mac and Apple Watch?

Yes, all three, and they are real apps rather than a phone screen stretched.

  • IPAD — opens in a tab layout with a sidebar available, and the wider screens lay out in two columns.
  • MAC — a proper Mac app: sidebar, ⌘F search, ⌘P printing, ⌘N for a new entry, and Budget or the Retirement Planner can each open in their own window beside the main one. It is the same purchase, not a separate one to buy.
  • APPLE WATCH — today's spending against pace, what is left in the budget, net worth, and your holdings merged by ticker with a sparkline and today's move. Complications put one figure on the watch face itself.

Widgets cover the home screen, the lock screen and StandBy, and quick-log writes a purchase straight from a widget without opening the app.

What can the widgets show?

Desktop and Notification Center widgets for what's left to spend, cash flow and net worth, plus a watch complication. There's also a quick-log widget for adding a transaction without opening the app.

Can I lock the app?

Yes — Touch ID or your Apple Watch on open, in Settings → Privacy & Security. There's also Hide Amounts to blur every figure on screen, which is the one to use when someone's looking over your shoulder.

What does the Apple Watch app show?

The short answers, on the wrist: today's spending against pace, what is left in the budget, your net worth, and your holdings — merged by ticker, with a sparkline and today's move rather than yesterday's total.

Complications put the number you care about on the watch face itself, and the rectangular one is designed to be legible on the smallest 40mm watch rather than on an Ultra.

Can I log a purchase from a widget?

Yes — quick-log writes straight from the widget without opening the app, and it can be undone from the widget too if you fat-finger it. The undo touches only that entry.

I placed a widget and now I want it to show something else.

Right-click the widget → Edit Widget, and pick the metric there.

🔴 The choice belongs to that PLACED widget, not to the app. Changing the default in the app does not reach a widget already placed on your desktop or in Notification Center — you either edit that widget or remove and re-add it.