Mobile calendar widget for task apps

Someone realizes this is a problem when they pull up their phone in a meeting to check what's due today, and they have to open three different apps — their calendar, their task manager, and their email — because nothing shows a unified view on the home screen. The native calendar widget shows calendar events but not tasks. The task app widget shows tasks but looks worse than the calendar and doesn't show time-blocked appointments. The two never appear together.

This is structurally awkward to fix inside a collaboration tool because widgets are a mobile OS concern, not a web app concern. Web-first tools like AITable and Allo invest in their browser and desktop experience; mobile widgets are an afterthought that requires separate native engineering for both iOS and Android. The teams building these products are not mobile-first, and the users complaining about widget quality or missing calendar integration on mobile aren't the loudest voices in their feedback channels — enterprise buyers evaluating features on a laptop are.

The specific complaints here are direct: the widget doesn't show calendar events alongside tasks, Google Calendar looks better so they use that instead, and mobile sync between calendars and tasks is broken. What users want is a home screen widget that shows their day — both calendar blocks and task deadlines — in one glance, pulled from whatever tools they use.

This is a business because every person with a smartphone and more than one productivity tool faces this every morning. The recurrence is daily. The switching cost is low enough that users try three apps and settle on none of them. A focused mobile widget that aggregates tasks from popular tools and calendar events from Google and Outlook into a single home screen view doesn't compete with project collaboration tools — it sits on top of them, which means it can serve users regardless of which tool their employer mandates.

What to build

Build a mobile app for iOS and Android whose primary surface is a customizable home screen widget showing today's calendar events and tasks pulled from connected sources — Google Calendar, Outlook, Any.do, AITable, and Allo — in a single chronological view, with tap-to-complete for tasks directly from the widget.

Where to start

Launch Android-first where widget support is more flexible and the technical constraints are looser, targeting users of Any.do specifically since it has the largest mobile user base among the three tools in this complaint set.

The hard part

Widget refresh frequency is throttled by iOS and Android to preserve battery, which means the data shown can be stale by 15-30 minutes — this creates a trust problem where users stop relying on the widget after it shows them an outdated task list once.

How it makes money

Free with connections to one task source and one calendar; $4/month to connect unlimited sources, set custom widget themes, and enable push reminders triggered by widget data.