Orby Widgets
Price: Rs.10
Platform: iOS
Orby is an all-in-one bundle that packs 12 extremely useful shortcut widgets into Apple’s iOS Notification Center. These include a Conversation widget to help you speed chat with your favourites --in whatever native app you message them--be it Whatsapp or iMessage etc. A Speed Call shortcut lets you set up a swipe-tap list within Notifications without going the tap-Phone-tap-Favourites-tap-Name route. Plus, there a inline dialer keypad.
An configurable App Launcher keeps a pre-selected set of oft-used apps here as well. If you always want a Calculator handy, you can opt to have it as a widget hither. For at-a-glance info, there’s a Memory widget to declare used/available memory, a CPU widget to report processor usage, and a Storage widget that details available space while Data usage tabulates bytes sent/received.
The Battery widget conveniently tells you not just how much juice remains on your iDevice but also your paired Apple Watch as well your Plantronics Bluetooth headset. Remember, all of the above and more are opt-in widgets, accessible in a single swipe down within the Today view—without having to whisk through home screens or drill into folders.
Orby works briskly and beautifully with an iPhone, iPad or iPod running iOS 8.0 or later. It has a simple, clean and mostly monotone look. While the widget descriptions in Help are concise and lucid, the actual configuration/reconfiguration can leave you scratching your head initially. Nevertheless.
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