Glimpse 2

Name: Glimpse 2
Rating: 4.2 (45 reviews)
Author: Arno Appenzeller

By: Arno Appenzeller

Website Widgets

Features & Capabilities

With Glimpse 2 you can always add all your favourite webpages as Widgets to your Homescreen

You want to see if there are news, if there is something new on your favourite webpage, if your long awaited product is available to order or check your used mobile data? You can do all of this with the right webpage inside Glimpse.

Just add a page to Glimpse. Choose the right area of the page and then this page is inside the Glimpse Widget on your Homescreen.

If you want to open a page quickly, you can do it from by pressing on the Widget and your page will be opened in Safari

You can add multiple widgets for different webpages to your Homescreen. Press firmly on the widget choose edit widget to select your webpage and desired refresh interval.

Features of Glimpse 2:

Add a page to a Homescreen widget
When adding you can scroll to a certain area of the page. The widget keeps this position, so that you are always in the right place (Note: Glimpse works best with mobile optimised webpages)
Individual refresh intervals for your widgets
You can open webpages from the widget
Add any page directly from Safari

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Arno Appenzeller

Rating:

4.20

(45)

Version:

2.5 Last updated: 2021-11-19

Version code:

845336064

Creation date:

2020-09-17

Compatible devices:

Size:

3.60MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-30

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 213,216 ▼ 473

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Contact the developer

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Developed by:

Arno Appenzeller

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/glimpse-2/id1524217845

Website:

https://arno.app

User Reviews

Users praise Glimpse 2 for its innovative idea and potential as a home-screen widget that can show web content, with easy setup and useful viewport customization. Yet multiple reviews point to reliability problems: the widget often won’t load, disappears after setup, or demands a new URL. Edits and settings frequently don’t stick, and a fixed frame size can crop or misalign pages. Login-protected sites fail to load, and cached content isn’t refreshing reliably. Despite enthusiasm and donations, stability and flexibility need improvement.

Pros

Innovative concept for a home-screen widget that can display web content
Easy to find, install, and use
Viewport customization that lets you choose what part of the page/screen to show
Useful across contexts (web development use, time zones, quick checks)
Positive sentiment and donor support from users

Cons

Reliability issues: widget often fails to load, disappears after setup, or requires a new URL
Edits and settings frequently don’t stick (changes don’t persist)
Fixed frame size can crop or misalign content; limited or awkward resizing
Pages requiring login often fail to load or show cached content
Caching leads to stale data and unreliable updates; limited automatic refresh capability

Recent reviews

This was going to be so fun to have for the election but it doesn’t work. Great idea and can’t give a low rating for a small developer. Pls fix

by Gr*****, 2024-10-31

Really really unhappy with the performance of this widget. Once I set it up, invariably, within 24 hours, the website literally just disappears and the widget says I have to pick a URL. When it is being set up, the small window size set up does not match up with what I’ve set after I go back and save it. I have to scroll the square window around to some other area to have it actually show what I want on the final home screen. Been playing with this now for more than two weeks on a daily basis. It never works right for longer than a few hours or a day if I could even get it set up to look like what I want onscreen