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Today, Selig is adding one more to the list — a language-learning widget that puts vocabulary from a variety of languages on your Home Screen.

At launch, the widget supports French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, German, Arabic, Korean, Hindi, and…Canadian?

But Selig explained, in a post on X, he’s been having fun with the interactive widgets in Pixel Pals, so he added the latest feature there.

The idea isn’t just a way for Selig to delight his apps’ users with extra goodies –it’s also an interesting and fairly successful strategy to court iOS subscriptions.

There are also crazy variations of these, like a “magic clock” that spells out “It is five to four,” for example, in a hidden word scramble; an “emoji clock” that shows the time using a variety of emojis to form the numbers; and a friendly “Jarvis” widget that includes a greeting alongside the date and time and various metrics, like the battery percentage and storage space.

Though details like the split between monthly and yearly subscribers and churn rate will vary, that’s still a healthy income for an indie developer.

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