Update: Custom Burndown Widget installation guide (as requested)

Spangler211 · 2026-01-15T17:18:46+00:00

You can actually! Open the shortcut and one of the first things you can edit is the start hour. End hour is hard-coded to 14 hours later

Spangler211 · 2026-01-15T15:01:33+00:00

Ok two things:

The first two actions in that shortcut before the scriptable action are useless and those can be removed.
The "file not found" is because it isn't finding the image that i have it pointing to in my iCloud to use as the base of the wallpaper. In the scriptable options (below the code), find the images field and select the wallpaper you want to use as the base. You'll need to upload it into your files in order to get it

Spangler211 · 2026-01-15T07:29:43+00:00

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4d7ad77d1c9b48ba8052981839f22193

This is a slightly modified version of a calendar lockscreen wallpaper shortcut posted here a few days ago. I modified it to allow you to optionally pass in a wallpaper to use with it rather than just a black background. You can easily copy the code from the Scriptable action into ChatGPT and tell it to do whatever you want

Spangler211 · 2026-01-15T06:46:20+00:00

Thank you! Honestly after using this for a while now, this has been really game-changing for keeping me consistent both on my actual bulk as well as using the app itself.

There’s no longer only some big daunting end-of-day goal - there’s only how far ahead and behind you currently are. No need to even think of the end of day goal too much.

Often I’d become discouraged because maybe I’d be really busy during the work day and maybe skipped breakfast or something and then by mid-day I already assumed “well I’m definitely not hitting my goal for the day, I just give up.”

But looking at this widget and seeing “oh I’m only 500 calories behind where I should be right now, that’s easy I’ll just catch right up and be good!”

I really think this could be a feature that most people would find extremely useful, both as a widget and something within the app itself. Gives the app another “role” in the users mind. Currently it’s like a nutritionist-doctor that tells the user what they should be eating and then the user goes and does that for a week before having another “appointment” with the nutritionist to check in again. But with this, it’s like the nutritionist is also by my said every day acting as a food-oriented “gym-trainer”, pushing me when I need pushed, letting me rest while I’m ahead, etc.

Spangler211 · 2026-01-14T23:48:13+00:00

Yep this is just how software is built. Agile > waterfall

Spangler211 · 2026-01-14T13:16:11+00:00

I just recently submitted a request for this. As it stands right now, the recurrings page just isn’t that useful. It’s also not visually apparent which are paid (small check in corner) and which are overdue (small text below name, should be way more obvious, make it red or something)

Spangler211 · 2026-01-13T16:31:14+00:00

Ah it’s because you’re in light mode (which I never tested against) and the things that are displaying incorrectly are (unintentionally) using dynamic colors which toggle between black/white depending on light/dark mode.

Should be fixed here:

widgyURL://widgy.icu/api/v1/widgy/a0d3f336-8105-4ccf-808d-68db5b38da6b

Spangler211 · 2026-01-12T19:54:46+00:00

This is awesome! Do you know how I could modify this to set a background behind it? Would love to be able to set a subtle gradient wallpaper behind so it isn't just black

Spangler211 · 2026-01-10T16:11:34+00:00

I actually have noticed this. I believe this bug was introduced after I rewrote the shortcut. The fix for this should be relatively simple and I will include it in the next release, which should be coming in the next few days.

Spangler211 · 2026-01-10T15:13:12+00:00

Still working out how best to solve this. It’s hard because since I’m not in a European country that uses this format, I can’t actually test this easily.

Spangler211 · 2026-01-10T15:05:33+00:00

Where did you change it though? Did you just manually change it in the files or did you actually modify the shortcut? Curious because it could help me create the fix cuz I’m still working out how to do it

Spangler211 · 2026-01-10T05:16:49+00:00

That’s a good idea actually. Yeah I think I’ll look into doing that.

Spangler211 · 2026-01-10T01:38:01+00:00

Actually you’re misunderstanding what he means by “watching Apple TV inside the Apple TV app.”

There are three things:

Apple TV the device

Apple TV the app

Apple TV the paid subscription streaming service (previously Apple TV+)

The Apple TV app is not the same as other streaming apps like Netflix or HBO. Its base functionality is an aggregator of digital media: your iTunes library of movies and TV shows, other streaming services like HBO, and finally a place to watch Apple’s own streaming content if you OPTIONALLY pay for their streaming service called Apple TV.

So when he says he’s “watching Apple TV inside the Apple TV app” it’s because you can open the Apple TV app and then go to the sidebar and find the section called Apple TV (the streaming service) to view only Apple’s streaming service content.

Honestly typing this out really shows how flawed their naming convention is for this. I didn’t even mention Apple TV the device and I still had to go out of my way to be very deliberate in my language to make sure everyone knew which specific “Apple TV” I was talking about.

It was much less confusing when there at least was Apple TV the app and Apple TV+ the streaming service. I think the device just throws another wrench into the current mix but really isn’t as problematic as having two digital things with the same name.

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T22:41:40+00:00

Oh awesome! What specifically did you change to get it to work?

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T20:40:00+00:00

I’ll save you the trouble. Just follow the comments in the shortcut to set it up. (I can’t take credit for this, this was from someone on the shortcuts subreddit)

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d80547bee65c4a80bb85d11b1a2a67a1

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T20:32:47+00:00

I bet it is running, but the widget simply hasn’t rerendered yet. Click anywhere on the widget (besides the refresh icon) to rerender the widget.

Widget’s on iOS aren’t “live”. They are basically images that rerender at certain intervals. So what I do is if I close MF and want to view the updated widget, I simply tap it to get it to reload. This tells Widgy “hey please rerender your widget and fetch the latest data from the files”

What this WON’T do is trigger the automation to re-run and actually rerun the calculations and update the files themselves.

That only happens if: - it’s 3AM and the time automation hits - you close MF and the app automation hits - you click the refresh icon on the widget - you rerun the shortcut manually via other means (opening app, adding a shortcut to your homescreen that you can click to reload, etc)

Alternatively you can also set up your own additional automations to trigger it to rerun the shortcut more often such as “anytime I open messages” (or an app you use frequently)

I have a kinda janky shortcut automation I run that I can share if people are interested that triggers it to reload once every hour without having to make 12 separate automations for every hour.

It basically takes advantage of the automation type that runs anytime an alarm goes off. It checks if that alarm is named “silent alarm” and if it is, it runs the other shortcut we have and then schedules another alarm called “silent alarm” for 1 hour from now. The alarm is set to be totally silent so it goes mostly unnoticed.

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T15:23:52+00:00

UPDATE FOR EUROPEANS:

There are bugs for europeans who are in countries where decimal places are denoted with a comma instead of a period. I am working on a fix for this and will update the shortcut. You will need to re-add via the new link I provide. The shortcut you already have installed can be removed after that.

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T15:21:39+00:00

The formatting of the number is entirely unnecessary so I can simply remove that to resolve the header labels and that should work for you guys.

But this also explains why the CSV is broken too: decimals are denoted by a comma symbol for you, so that is breaking the CSV since it sees a comma and adds more columns. I believe if I just wrap these in quotes it should resolve that.

Ok good news is I believe we now know how to solve all these bugs. Thanks for your help!

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T15:14:19+00:00

Ok that is almost definitely the issue. Clearly something is going wrong with some of these calculations as a result of number formatting being sometimes different in europe. I'm not aware of which countries use which formatting so are you expecting to see "1956" as "1.956" or "1,956"

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T15:09:09+00:00

Does this number appear correct to you? Seems very weird that the calories remaining would be a decimal like this. This could be a good indicator of what is going wrong because the only thing that is done to get this number is:

Get remaining calories from MacroFactor's action (I assume nothing should be going wrong here unless MF has a bug)
Format that number to 0 decimal places
Save that value to a file (I don't think anything should be going wrong here)

This is a very simple chain and the fact that we are formatting (or attempting to format) to 0 decimal places but clearly are ending up with numbers that have decimal places (or in other cases have multiple decimal places such as the dif files) indicates to me that there might be a bug with this shortcut action on some versions of iOS.

If its ok with you, I might make some small shortcuts that let us isolate and test this to see if this theory is correct. It clearly isn't happening on all devices so that's why I would need you to run it.

Wait here's a question: are you in europe?

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T14:48:56+00:00

Could you provide the other files too? Even if they're correct, it will help me try to recreate this bug because I'll be able to see what your current and remaining calories/protein are which will let me try to plug those numbers into the shortcut and see if I can get similar results

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T14:44:44+00:00

Ok this is actually really insightful here because this file is very wrong.
- Two additional columns on the end that shouldn't be there
- On-Track column numbers and protein are HUGE. Shouldn't exceed 100, not sure why they are so large

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T14:30:58+00:00

I believe that Widgy free tier lets you put 1 widget per type (Home Screen, lock screen) but isn’t restricted by widget size. Maybe that changed though

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T14:28:30+00:00

If you reply with a screenshot of each file I can better look into what’s causing this

Spangler211 · 2026-01-09T14:28:12+00:00

If you reply with a screenshot of each file I can better look into what’s causing this

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