The Stoïque widget on the Home Screen and in StandBy

Steps

1. 1

   Install Stoïque and open it once. The widget takes the language and the theme chosen in the app’s Settings — Paper or Ink, both free — and follows the system appearance until a theme is picked.

2. 2

   Touch and hold an empty area of the Home Screen until the apps begin to jiggle, tap Edit in the top-left corner, then Add Widget.

3. 3

   Find Stoïque in the list and choose the widget named Daily passage, then a size: small, medium or large. Every size carries the passage and its canonical reference. A passage that does not fit its tile is replaced by a shorter one, never shrunk, never cut.

4. 4

   Tap Add Widget, then Done. The large size shows the app’s passage of the day; the small and medium sizes draw from the passages short enough for their tile, so they can show another one. All three change at local midnight; opening the app reloads them.

5. 5

   In StandBy — the iPhone on its side, charging, locked — touch and hold the widget column, tap the plus button and choose Stoïque. The small and medium sizes are then drawn without their background, with a large passage and its reference and nothing else.

6. 6

   With the tinted Home Screen of iOS 18, the reference line is the part the tint highlights: the widget’s hierarchy is size, weight and opacity, never hue.

Widget families

The families the app declares to iOS, named as in its code.

• Home Screen widget · systemSmall, systemMedium, systemLarge

What Stoïque does not do

• No audio: the passage is read, not listened to.
• No journal and no guided meditation.
• No Android version.
• No statistics screen.
• No side-by-side translation comparison.

Free and Stoic+

Every size of the Home Screen widget is free, in the Paper and Ink themes, and rotates through Marcus Aurelius. Stoic+ extends the rotation to Seneca and Epictetus and applies the other visual themes to the widgets as well.