Want to give your Home Screen a little more flavor? Here are five widgets to add to your iPhone’s or iPad’s Today View. All will help you get key info—or have a little fun—at a glance.

Like its namesake app, the Carrot Weather widget delivers the forecast with a little more...personality. (“Beep boop. It’s 83 degrees and mostly moony in Miami right now, meatbag.”) If you’re the sort who enjoys a little meteorological sarcasm with your daily weather report, it’s a must-add.

Who knew encyclopedias could be so fun? Wikipedia offers three widgets: Picture of the Day bubbles up photos of everything from sea snails to asteroids to illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” On This Day recaps major historical events and smaller happenings you might not know about. And Top Read highlights the day’s most popular story, so you can see what the whole world is learning about.

Calm’s cool widget can help you find a little quiet in your day—or wind down at the end of it. Use it to get one-tap access to the Daily Calm (a 10-minute guided meditation), unwind with breathing exercises, or check out the app’s famous Sleep Stories.

Alpenglow is like a weather app for photographers, offering daily forecasts for photogenic times of day like golden hour, blue hour, and sunset. The large and medium widgets lay out the day’s upcoming events; the small version shows golden hour only (which might be all you need).

Elevate your linguistic proficiency with this dictionary app’s beautifully illustrated Word of the Day—then test those high school English skills with fun word quizzes.

1. Touch and hold anywhere on the Home Screen until your apps start to jiggle.
2. Tap the plus sign at the top of the screen. (If you’re on iPad and the plus sign isn’t visible, swipe right over the screen. Then tap the plus sign.)
3. Select a widget, choose a size, and tap Add Widget.
4. To reposition the widget, drag it to where you want it.
5. Tap Done.