New in 2.0.1 · Widgets

Home Screen Widgets

Four Home Screen widgets for today's progress, your streak, water, and one-tap meal logging — all without opening the app.

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Your progress, without opening the app

Heart Tracker adds four Home Screen widgets, each built around a single job: check today's progress at a glance, or log something in one tap. Mix and match the ones you use, resize to small or medium, and even stack several on top of each other using iOS's built-in Smart Stacks.

The four widgets

Today's Meals

Available in small and medium sizes. Shows today's total calories against your goal in a ring, plus how many of your usual meals are logged. The medium size adds mini dials for Food, Steps, Water, and Calorie Balance — synced from Apple Health when available. Tap to open Add Meal (small) or jump straight to today's diary (medium).

Meal Streak

A small, glanceable flame icon and your current streak count — "5 days in a row," or a prompt to log a meal and start one. Tap to jump straight to logging.

Quick Add Meal

The fastest possible way in: a single green "+" button, no rings or numbers, optimized purely for tapping straight through to logging a meal.

Hydration Quick Add

A water ring showing today's intake against your target. Tap to open the water logging screen directly, instead of a generic app launch.

Build your own stack

iOS doesn't let a single widget have swipeable internal pages — that's actually a Smart Stack, which you build yourself by dragging one widget on top of another on your Home Screen. All four Heart Tracker widgets are designed to work well together this way: stack Today's Meals with Meal Streak and Hydration Quick Add, and swipe between them right from your Home Screen.

Always current

Updates instantly

Widgets refresh the moment you log a meal or update your water intake in the app — no waiting for the next scheduled refresh.

Apple Health synced

Steps and active energy figures pull live from Apple Health when your device is unlocked, falling back to the most recent cached reading otherwise.

Fresh every day

Widgets reset to an empty state each morning rather than showing yesterday's numbers, so you're never looking at stale data.

One-tap actions

Every widget opens directly to the most useful next screen — adding a meal, logging water, or today's full diary — no extra taps through menus.

How to add a widget

  • Touch and hold an empty area on your Home Screen until apps start to jiggle
  • Tap the + button in the top corner
  • Search for "Heart Tracker" or "Cholesterol Heart Tracker"
  • Choose Today's Meals, Meal Streak, Quick Add Meal, or Hydration Quick Add, and pick small or medium (where supported)
  • Drag one widget onto another of the same size to combine them into a Smart Stack

Requires iOS 17.0 or later. Widgets are all Home Screen widgets — Lock Screen widget support is not currently available.

Add your first widget today

Your progress, one glance away — no need to open the app.

Download Cholesterol Heart Tracker

Free download • iOS 17.0 or later

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