Widgets live in two places in Toolrack, and both use the same picker.
Home places them on the grid, where they occupy cells and can be resized in place.
Dash is a scrolling column one swipe to the left of Home, for widgets you want to read rather than arrange — the sort of thing that wants full width and does not need to share a row.
Adding a widget
On Home, long-press an empty cell and choose Add widget. On Dash, use the gear icon and pick from Active widgets.
Either way you get the same picker: your installed widgets grouped by the app they came from, with previews, plus Toolrack’s own built-ins at the top.
Toolrack’s built-in widgets
| Widget | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Clock | A digital clock with the date beside it |
| Analog clock | An analog face with the date above it |
| Search | Opens the App Drawer with the search field already focused |
| Bubbles | A one-tap toggle for every bubble you have made |
| Tools | A named rack of apps you choose — see below |
There are deliberately no weather or calendar built-ins. Earlier placeholder versions showed invented data, and were removed rather than shipped that way — any real weather or calendar widget you install works normally on both surfaces.
Tools widgets
A Tools widget is a named card holding the apps that belong together — the ones you reach for when you are doing a particular kind of thing. Put it on Home, in Dash, in a bubble, or all three.
Picking Tools in the widget picker opens its settings first, so you name it and fill it before it lands anywhere. Cancel and nothing is added.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name | The label in the header. It is also how the widget is listed in Dash configuration. |
| Apps | Which apps are in it, and in what order — drag the handles to reorder, and the ✕ to remove. |
| Theme | Whether the card paints light or dark, or follows the system. Your wallpaper decides which reads better, so this is set per widget rather than once for all of them. |
| Transparency | How much of the wallpaper shows through the card. |
To change any of it later, tap the gear in the widget’s top-left corner.
When there are more apps than fit
The widget shows as many apps as its footprint holds. Anything past that is behind the chevron in the top-right corner, which opens a sheet with everything in the widget.
The chevron only appears when there is actually something more to show — if everything fits, there is nothing behind it and it stays out of the way.
Making the widget taller shows more rows rather than bigger icons, so resizing it on Home is another way to bring apps out from behind the chevron.
:::info Free tier limit The free tier allows three Tools widgets, counted across Home, the dock and Dash together. A Tools widget inside a bubble does not count against it — a bubble is already capped as a bubble. See Premium below. :::
Resizing
On Home, long-press a resizable widget and drag handles appear on its edges. They respect the widget’s own declared minimum and maximum, so a widget that only supports certain sizes will stop where it stops.
Widgets that declare no resize axis at all get the ordinary long-press menu instead.
Dash widgets are full width by nature and are not resized — they are reordered instead.
Reordering and switching off Dash widgets
Settings › Dash configuration lists the active widgets with a drag handle on each, so the order is set by dragging rather than by long-pressing the widget itself.
Switching a widget off there removes it from Dash without losing it — turn it back on and it returns.
Showing the dock on Dash
Settings › Dash configuration › Show dock on Dash keeps the Home screen’s dock visible while you are on Dash, so your most-used apps stay reachable from both surfaces.
:::info Free tier limit Dash holds up to five widgets on the free tier. See Premium below. :::
Premium
Toolrack’s free tier caps three things: 5 Dash widgets, 3 bubbles and 3 Tools widgets. Everything else in the launcher is free and uncapped.
Lifting those caps is a single one-time purchase — not a subscription — and the unlock follows your Google Play account across reinstalls and devices.
:::warning Not yet available The Premium purchase is not live in Google Play yet. The caps above apply, and the upgrade screen will tell you if it cannot reach Play to check the price. :::