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Make a folder and a few notes in Peek Notes first. Then touch and hold an empty part of your Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, search for Peek Notes, swipe to pick a size and tap Add Widget.

Touch and hold the widget, tap Edit Widget and pick a folder. Until you pick one, a new widget shows your first folder.

Yes. Each widget shows one folder, so add a widget for every folder you want on your Home Screen.

Small shows one column of notes, medium and large show two, and on iPad, extra large shows three.

When a folder has more notes than fit, the arrows page through them, right on the Home Screen, without opening the app.

Peek Notes opens the folder that widget shows.

Note text is marked privacy-sensitive, so iOS hides it where your iPhone is locked, such as in StandBy.

Touch and hold the widget, tap Edit Widget and pick the folder you want. A new widget shows your first folder until you pick one.

A widget shows as much of each note as fits. Tap the widget to open the folder and see the whole note.

Open a folder and tap +. Type a line or two, pick a symbol and a colour, then tap Save.

Tap a note to change it, then tap Save. To delete it, swipe left on it, or touch and hold it and tap Delete.

In the note editor, open the symbol picker. Browse the favourites, grouped as General, Security, Devices and more, or search for any SF Symbol by name.

Yes. Pick one of the 13 preset colours, or tap Custom and choose any colour you like.

Tap Edit, then drag them into the order you want.

Touch and hold the folder and tap Rename or Delete. You can also swipe left on a folder to delete it.

Yes. If you're signed in to iCloud, your folders and notes sync through your own private iCloud database, so they follow you to a new iPhone and to your iPad.

Yes. Without iCloud, Peek Notes keeps your folders and notes on your device.

On your device and, if you're signed in to iCloud, in your private iCloud database. That database belongs to your Apple Account, and I can't read it.

Delete folders or notes in the app, or delete the app. To remove the synced copy as well, delete the app's data from iCloud in Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage.

Your iPhone sends a copy of your folders and notes to your paired Apple Watch, over Apple's own connection between the two. The watch keeps that copy, so it shows your notes even when your iPhone isn't nearby.

Touch and hold the watch face, tap Edit and swipe to Complications. Tap a slot, choose Peek Notes and pick the note to show. There are circular, corner, inline and rectangular complications.

Yes. A rectangular widget shows a folder's first notes.

Watch complications and widgets are marked privacy-sensitive, so watchOS can hide them, for example while your watch is locked.

Your folders and notes sit side by side, and the extra large widget shows a folder in three columns.

Yes: ⌘N makes a new note, ⇧⌘N a new folder, ⌘Return saves and Esc cancels.

Yes. Peek Notes is free, with no in-app purchases and no account to make.

No. Peek Notes collects nothing: there's no account, no analytics and no third-party SDKs or ads. Your notes stay on your devices and in your own private iCloud, which I can't see.

It shows one small banner for my other apps. It comes from my own website, not an ad network: the request carries no account, device or advertising identifier, and the app doesn't record whether you see or tap it.