9 Apps to Add to Control Center iOS 18

With iOS 18, Apple has made it even easier to customize Control Center and even your lock screen with support for widgets from third-party apps. Here are some great apps you can use to get the most out of the redesigned Control Center.

Table of Contents

• 1. Waterllama
• 2. Halide Mark II
• 3. Todoist
• 4. LookUp Dictionary
• 5. Spark
• 6. Lumy
• 7. Croutons
• 8. Plinky
• 9. Peak

1. Waterllama

Everyone knows the importance of staying hydrated every day. Waterllama makes tracking your daily water intake fun and easy. This full-featured app lets you track water intake from anything you drink, including over 40 popular beverages.

The app provides smart reminders throughout the day to make sure you remember to drink water. The app customizes how much water you need based on your activity level, weight, climate, and gender.

The app's Control Center widget lets you open the app or quickly add a custom amount of water or other beverage to your daily total. Both widgets have animations to make staying hydrated a little more fun.

2. Halide Mark II

If you’re looking for a more powerful Apple Camera app, Halide Mark II should be at the top of your list. It has an easy-to-use gesture interface that you can use with one hand, along with a bunch of great tools like full manual exposure controls, including shutter speed, ISO, and white balance.

With the app's Process Zero mode, you can bypass Apple's image processing to get perfect images without the highly processed look.

While the app has a Control Center widget for quick app launches, it also serves as a perfect replacement for Apple’s Camera app on your customizable iOS 18 lock screen. While the app is free to download, you do need to subscribe to use it.

3. Todoist

Todoist can help you keep track of almost any task imaginable. Thanks to natural language technology, you can easily add one-time or recurring tasks. For more complex tasks, you can create a project that can be viewed as a list, board, or calendar to manage your time and tasks.

Using Control Center widgets, you can quickly add a task to an app or open an app in a specific view, like tasks you need to complete today at work or even in your personal life.

4. LookUp Dictionary

Along with an extensive dictionary, this app offers some great vocabulary tools for anyone looking to improve their language skills. The app brings language to life with a Word of the Day feature that features beautifully illustrated images. Tap on a card to learn more about the word, such as its origin and synonyms.

You'll find a number of actions you can add to Control Center using app widgets. You can quickly open an app to search for a word in text, scan a word with your camera to see its definition, or launch the app's Reading Mode, which provides a Live Activity to help you quickly find the meaning of a word from Dynamic Island or the lock screen.

5. Spark

Spark makes managing your massive email volume a little easier. One of the app's best features is that it automatically sorts the most important messages at the top of your inbox. Newsletters and notifications are automatically grouped at the bottom so you can deal with them later.

You can use the app with multiple email accounts at once. Other great features include built-in AI to help write emails for you and collaboration with team members. This is also a great way to optimize your email productivity on your Mac.

The app offers four widgets that you can add to Control Center. With these widgets, you can quickly launch the app to compose an email, search, jump directly to an attachment, or view your calendar.

6. Lumy

Whether you’re looking to capture the perfect photo with great lighting or find the perfect time for another outdoor activity, Lumy can help. The app can tell you about major solar events like sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and more in your location. After the sun sets, the app will also tell you everything you need to know about the moon and its phases.

The app even integrates with the mood logging feature in the Health app and can suggest time outside to improve your mood.

In addition to quickly launching apps from the Control Center widget, you can also choose to start a Live Activity timer for a specific event like sunset or golden hour, or receive notifications about that event.

7. Croutons

Crouton makes cooking easier. The app is both a recipe organizer and a meal planner. Before you start your week, you can plan your week using recipes stored in the app.

Crouton can even automatically generate a plan. When it's time to cook, the unique step-by-step mode lets you focus on each step with specific ingredients and quantities. You can even move between steps hands-free so you don't have to touch the screen when your hands are dirty.

The app's Control Center widget provides one-touch access to the app's recipe import feature. Thanks to AI, you can import recipes using a single photo instead of typing them in manually. The app also supports both plain text and images.

8. Plinky

Plinky helps you save any link you can find, whether it's a video, article, social media post, or something else. With the app's extension widget, you can save links with just one tap in Safari or other popular browsers. Within the app, you can use folders and tags to organize your saved links by popular topics like news or entertainment.

With Control Xenter widgets, you can quickly launch one of the app's actions, like saving a copied link or selecting a tag or folder within the app to access.

9. Peak

Peak makes it easy to get a better understanding of your fitness goals. With the app, you can create custom dashboards with the exact metrics you want to see, like steps, exercises, activity rings, and more. Each metric can also display blocks like charts, goals, totals, and trends for better insight.

If you don't want to open the app every time you want to see relevant information, you can rely on the app's Home or Lock screen widgets. You can use the app's Control Center widgets to quickly view pinned goals or blocks, see progress on any metrics, and record important information like weight or BMI.

Adding widgets to Control Center or the lock screen is a great way to get one-tap access to the apps you use most often. It's great that Apple is finally opening up Control Center to third-party apps in iOS. But that's just one of the many great features iOS 18 has to offer .