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sideBar widget on the home screen
Widgets and extensions bring sideBar outside the app itself and onto your home screen, lock screen, into Safari, and into the iOS share sheet. Each one is optional and takes less than a minute to set up.

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Home Screen Widgets

sideBar offers five widget types for your iPhone, iPad, or Mac home screen, in small, medium, and large sizes:
  • Today’s Tasks: your tasks for today with interactive checkboxes to complete them. Tapping the add button opens the app to create a new task. See Tasks for more on how tasks work.
  • Task Count: a compact progress ring showing how many tasks you’ve completed today.
  • Pinned Notes: quick links to your pinned notes. If you have not pinned any notes yet, sideBar shows your most recent notes instead. See Notes for how to pin a note.
  • Saved Websites: your saved websites with favicons. Pinned websites appear first, followed by your most recent saved websites. See Websites for how to save sites.
  • Pinned Files: your pinned files with file-type icons. See Files for how to pin a file.
To add a widget on iPhone or iPad:
  1. Long-press an empty area of your home screen until it enters edit mode.
  2. Tap the + button in the top corner.
  3. Search for sideBar and select the widget type and size you want.
  4. Tap Add Widget, then drag it into position.
To add a widget on Mac:
  1. Click the date and time in the menu bar, then click Edit Widgets.
  2. Search for sideBar and click the + next to the widget you want.
Widgets update automatically and require you to be signed in to the app.

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Lock Screen Widgets

On iPhone and iPad, sideBar widgets are also available on your lock screen in three compact styles — circular, rectangular, and inline — for tasks, notes, websites, and files. To add a lock screen widget:
  1. Long-press your lock screen and tap Customise.
  2. Tap the lock screen face area and select the widget slot you want to fill.
  3. Search for sideBar and choose a widget.

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Share Extension

The Share extension lets you send content from any app — Safari, Mail, Photos, Files, and others — directly into sideBar, without switching apps. You can share:
  • URLs: saved to your Websites section
  • Images, PDFs, and other files: saved to your Files section
To enable the Share extension:
  1. Tap the share button in any app.
  2. Scroll right in the row of app icons and tap More.
  3. Find sideBar in the list and toggle it on.
sideBar now appears in your share sheet whenever you want to save something. If the sideBar app is already open on your Mac, shared websites appear there immediately as pending saves, then update automatically when processing finishes.

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Safari Extension

The Safari extension adds a sideBar button to Safari’s toolbar so you can save the current page to sideBar with a single tap. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. To enable on iPhone or iPad:
  1. Open the Settings app and scroll down to Safari.
  2. Tap Extensions, then tap sideBar.
  3. Toggle the extension on and grant it permission to run on websites.
  4. To show the button in the toolbar, tap the aA button in Safari’s address bar, then tap Manage Extensions and enable sideBar.
To enable on Mac:
  1. Open Safari and go to Settings → Extensions.
  2. Tick the sideBar checkbox.
  3. Grant permissions for the websites you want it to work on (or all websites).
Once enabled, tap or click the sideBar icon in the toolbar to save the current page to your Websites section. If the sideBar app is already open, the website appears in the app immediately and then updates as the save completes.