How to add a daily quote widget to your iPhone

To put your own quotes on your iPhone Home Screen, import Flowment’s Daily Words theme, create a personal text-only card, save a collection of short sentences, and select that card for a Small or Medium widget. Choose Daily for a daily pick, or switch sentences manually.

Watch the daily quote widget setup video

Your sentences rather than a new quote every unlock

A daily quote widget can hold words you actually want to see: a reminder to slow down, a phrase you wrote, or a short line that helps you start the day. Daily Words displays entries from your saved collection. It does not write new quotes for you or choose a different sentence every time you unlock your phone.

The video shows theme import, sentence settings, choosing the widget’s card, and a manual switch on the Home Screen. The neighboring date widgets are separate cards; changing the sentence does not change their dates.

Import Daily Words and create a card

1. Use Flowment 1.2.2 or later and open the Daily Words theme page for its current acquisition instructions.
2. In the theme preview, tap Import Theme and confirm the import.
3. Once the theme is in your library, choose New Card.
4. Keep this as a personal card with no date, using the Small or Medium presentation.

Importing the theme adds its design to your library; the preview’s sample line is not your personal sentence collection. Set up your own words in the card before choosing it for the widget. Check any import-limit or purchase prompt in the app rather than assuming unlimited imports.

Save the words you want to rotate

Open the card’s text controls and choose Sentences. Tap Add a sentence, enter the main text, and optionally add a smaller supporting line. Save each entry, confirm the sentence list, then save the card.

Start with three short entries, for example:

• “Take it slow.” — “Make today your own.”
• “One thing at a time.”
• “Good luck.”

The editor allows up to 30 sentences. Each main-text field and optional small-line field supports up to 40 characters. These are short widget lines, not long journal entries; a brief main line also stays more readable in a Small widget.

Turn on Rotate sentences, then choose the switching mode:

• Daily: selects a sentence for the day from your saved collection. You can still request the next sentence yourself.
• Manually: keeps the selected sentence until you choose another.

Daily selection and Home Screen display are not the same clock. iOS manages widget refresh timing, so do not expect a guaranteed visible change at an exact second.

Select the card for your Home Screen widget

1. Touch and hold an empty area of your iPhone Home Screen and open the widget gallery.
2. Search for Flowment and add a Small or Medium widget.
3. Touch and hold that widget and choose Edit Widget.
4. Select the personal Daily Words card you saved.

If you already have a Flowment widget, edit its selected card instead of adding another. The video uses an existing widget: choosing the right card is what connects the saved sentences to the Home Screen. For the full installation controls, see how to add a widget to iPhone.

Tap the theme’s crossing-arrows button to request the next sentence. That changes the displayed text; it does not create a new journal or history entry.

If the sentence does not change

• Only one sentence is saved: add at least one more. There is nothing different to display when the collection contains a single entry.
• Rotation is off: enable Rotate sentences and save both the list and the card.
• The control is missing or disabled: check that you are using a rotation-capable theme and a personal no-date card, not a shared or date card.
• The widget shows another card: use Edit Widget to select the intended Daily Words card.
• An edit is not visible yet: check the saved card in Flowment first. Widget refresh is managed by iOS and may not appear immediately.

You can keep the quote beside separate countdown or days-since widgets, as the video shows. If you want one fixed line instead of a rotating collection, use the custom text widget setup guide. For more short-line ideas, explore what to put in an iPhone text widget.