Pleloot, without opening Pleloot.
Check how you’re doing, follow your goals or log an expense straight from your home screen. What matters, always within reach.
Two widgets, a quick settings tile and four shortcuts.
Android lets you do two things iOS doesn’t: put a real button in the quick settings panel, and send Pleloot text you selected in any other app.
The widgets
Your numbers on the home screen, without opening anything. They stretch wide and tall: the bigger they are, the more they show.
What you’ll see: Gaming budget · Your goal
The quick settings tile
Log an expense, next to the wifi and the torch. Swipe down, tap, and you’re on the amount keypad without passing through a single screen. This doesn’t exist on iPhone.
The icon shortcuts
Press and hold Pleloot on the home screen and all four come up. Nothing to set up: they come with the app.
What you’ll see: Log · Scan · Check · New goal
Share with Pleloot
For the receipt that’s already on your phone. Share a photo, a PDF or the text of a payment SMS, and Pleloot reads it and proposes the entry. You confirm.
And the step by step? Inside the app, in Settings › Widgets and shortcuts, with these same videos and the button that asks Android to place the tile for you.
Four widgets, five voice shortcuts and five system buttons.
What iOS allows and Android doesn’t: asking Siri and having it resolve without the app ever opening, and putting all four widgets on the lock screen.
The widgets
Four of them, and all four reach the lock screen too. They calculate nothing: the app leaves them a snapshot of your numbers and they just paint it.
What you’ll see: Available to decide · Your goal · Gaming budget · Upcoming payments
Control Centre and the Action button
You add them once and they show up in three places: Control Centre, the lock screen — where the torch and the camera live — and the Action button, if your iPhone has one. This doesn’t exist on Android.
What you’ll see: Log an expense · Scan a receipt
Siri, Spotlight and Shortcuts
Five phrases, nothing to set up: they’re there from the first time you open the app. Four of them resolve without Pleloot ever appearing on screen. Say the phrase with the name in it — Siri needs it so it doesn’t confuse Pleloot with another app.
- “Log an expense in Pleloot”
- “Can I afford it with Pleloot?”
- “Create a goal in Pleloot”
The icon shortcuts
Press and hold Pleloot on the home screen. There are three, not five: “check a purchase” needs an amount and there’s nowhere here to ask for one, so that one lives in your voice.
What you’ll see: Log an expense · Scan a receipt · Create a goal
Share with Pleloot
For the receipt that’s already on your phone. A sheet opens on top of wherever you were, reads what you sent it and proposes the entry. You confirm and it closes, without leaving the other app.
And the step by step? Inside the app, in Settings › Widgets and shortcuts, with these same videos and the detail of each piece: where it fits and what it does when you tap it.
What each platform has.
This table deliberately doesn’t filter with the switch above: it’s the one part of the page where seeing both at once is the point.
| Android | iPhone | |
|---|---|---|
| Home screen widgets | 2 | 4 |
| Lock screen widgets | Depends on the phone | All four |
| Quick settings tile | Yes | Doesn’t exist on iOS |
| Control Centre button | Doesn’t exist on Android | Yes, from iOS 18 |
| Action button | — | Yes, where there is one |
| Voice shortcuts | No | Five, with Siri |
| Shortcuts by holding the icon | Four | Three |
| Share a photo or a PDF | Yes | Yes |
| Send it selected text from another app | Yes | Doesn’t exist on iOS |
What people ask about this
Do the widgets drain the battery?
Almost nothing, and that’s by design. The widgets don’t calculate: the app leaves them a snapshot of your numbers and they just paint it. They also don’t poll for changes — that would drain it: they refresh when you log something, when you change a budget, and at midnight, which is when the deadlines actually change.
Can my numbers be seen on the lock screen if Pleloot is locked?
A lock screen widget shows what it shows, and no app lock changes that: iOS decides it, not us. If you’d rather your numbers weren’t visible without unlocking, don’t put widgets on the lock screen. The Siri “can I afford it?” shortcut does respect the lock, though: with it on, it tells you to open the app instead of reading the figure out loud.
Do the widgets show stale numbers if I don’t open the app?
No. A widget with last month’s figures would be worse than an empty one, so when the snapshot stops being from the current month the widget stops giving numbers and asks you to open the app. Knowing when to go quiet is part of not lying.
Do I need an account or Pleloot Pro?
The widgets, the icon shortcuts, the quick settings tile and the Siri shortcuts for logging, checking and creating goals all work without an account, without a connection and without paying. The two exceptions are scanning a receipt and sharing a bill with Pleloot: the assistant reads those, so they ask you to sign in and count towards your monthly question limit — 25 a month on the free plan, 500 with Pro.
Can I log an expense without the app opening?
On iPhone, yes: the Siri shortcuts for logging an expense, logging income, checking a purchase and creating a goal all resolve without the app appearing on screen. Scanning opens it, because it needs the camera. On Android every shortcut opens the app, but drops you straight on the amount keypad.
Why are there four widgets on iPhone and two on Android?
Because Android came first and iOS was built later, with all four at once. The two on Android — budget and goal — are the most used ones, and the rest will follow. We’d rather say so here than have you find out by scrolling your phone’s widget list.
All of this is already there. You just have to bring it out.
The widgets and the shortcuts aren’t bought and don’t need turning on: they’re in the app from the moment you install it. Logging, checking a purchase and creating a goal from there is free and needs no account.
See how the impact is worked out
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