Widgets for your record collection

Record of the Day

Each day the widget picks one record from the ones you have put on a shelf. Until you have placed any, it picks from your whole collection. If you would rather see what came in last, switch What to show to your last added record in the widget's settings (more on settings below).

With the daily pick, the small and medium sizes have a shuffle button. Tap it and another record shows up right on the home screen, without opening the app. Each day has 30 records to shuffle through. After that the button opens the random picker in the app instead, where you can pick by genre or format.

Where the record lives, at a glance

This is the part no other widget does. Next to the cover, the record widgets draw a small picture of the furniture in that room with the compartment marked, and the position, like "3 from right". You see the record, and you know where to reach for it.

If you want the long version, set Location Details to Full Details in the widget's settings. Then it shows the room, shelf, row, column and position.

Now Spinning and Collection Stats

Now Spinning shows the record you set as Now Spinning in the app. When nothing is spinning, it says so, and a tap opens your records so you can pick one.

Collection Stats shows your numbers: records, shelves, artists and your wantlist. The large size adds the record you added last. Tap a record on any widget and it opens in Shelfify.

The sizes

• iPhone and iPad home screen: small and medium for all three widgets, and large for Collection Stats.
• iPhone and iPad Lock Screen: a rectangle and a circle for all three.
• Android home screen: Record of the Day and Now Spinning in small and medium, Collection Stats in small, medium and large. On Android each size is its own entry in the widget list, and you can resize a widget after placing it.

Add a widget on iPhone or iPad

1. Touch and hold an empty spot on the home screen until the apps start to jiggle.
2. Tap Edit in the top corner, then Add Widget. On older iOS versions, tap the plus instead.
3. Search for Shelfify, swipe to the widget and size you want, and tap Add Widget.

For the Lock Screen: touch and hold the Lock Screen, tap Customize, choose Lock Screen, tap the area under the clock and pick a Shelfify widget.

Add a widget on Android

1. Touch and hold an empty spot on the home screen and tap Widgets.
2. Find Shelfify in the list (or search for it) and pick the widget and size you want.
3. Drag it to a free spot on the home screen, or tap Add.
4. The widget's settings open right away. Choose what it shows and how it looks, then tap Add Widget.

The menus look a little different from one phone maker to the next, but Widgets is always in the menu that opens when you touch and hold the home screen.

Change a widget later

• iPhone and iPad: touch and hold the widget and tap Edit Widget.
• Android: touch and hold the widget and tap the pencil or Widget settings (the name depends on your phone), then Save.
• The settings are the same on both: What to show (the daily pick or your last added record, on Record of the Day), Theme (dark walnut, cream, or follow the system), Background Style (solid, translucent or glass), Show Shelf Location, and Location Details (Position Only or Full Details).