Neither Apple nor Google invented widgets. ... The first consumer-oriented operating system with widgets was Mac OS X. Two independent developers created a widget engine for OS X known as Konfabulator in 2003.

Who invented widgets?

Google Android (2008) Widgets were part of the very first version of Android. Google imagined them as “little applications that reside in the Home Application,” according to an early draft specification that was created in July 2006, more than two years before the first Android device came out.

Is widget Smith made by Apple?

Widgetsmith comes from David Smith, who's the developer behind several popular Apple Watch and iPhone apps including Watchsmith, Sleep+ +, and Pedometer+ +. The concept of Widgetsmith is that it lets you create custom and personalized widgets for your iOS 14 home screen; here's how it works.