Widgets and controls
Add Home Screen, Lock Screen, or Mac desktop widgets. Pin a scent or configure a Quick-Log control.
Widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight
Orrique can show or act on your journal outside the main app. This page maps each system surface to its focused guide.
Choose a system surface
Section titled “Choose a system surface”Siri and Shortcuts
Log a scent, open a destination, ask supported journal questions, or build a personal automation.
Visual Intelligence
Search your saved collection from a supported capture or camera view on iPhone or iPad.
Notifications
Configure morning, next day, live wear, and planned wear reminders, including sound and timing.
Live wear tracking
Follow a fragrance or formula as it develops. Its compact Lock Screen presentation keeps the timer, phase, progress, and Check-in action visible on iPhone or iPad, and VoiceOver announces the elapsed time and progress.
Search from Spotlight
Section titled “Search from Spotlight”Orrique adds your scents to the device search index so you can open them from the Home Screen or Mac.
- Swipe down on the Home Screen on iPhone or iPad, or press Command and Space on Mac.
- Type a brand, scent, note, accord, occasion, season, perfumer, or tag.
- Choose a result to open that scent in Orrique.
Diary search is optional. Turn on Include diary in Spotlight search in Orrique Settings, under Privacy. Each device builds its own index, so a new device can need a little time after the collection finishes downloading.
What happens when an action opens Orrique
Section titled “What happens when an action opens Orrique”A widget, Shortcut, search result, notification, or link waits until the journal has loaded before opening its destination. If App Lock is on, Orrique opens that destination once after you unlock.
A wear logged from a widget, control, or Siri appears in the Diary and contributes to the same stats as a wear logged in the app. Orrique keeps a compact current snapshot for these system surfaces and a separate, less frequent full recovery checkpoint. It reconciles actions completed while the app was closed when it next runs.
Device and plan summary
Section titled “Device and plan summary”| Surface | iPhone | iPad | Mac | Apple Watch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Screen or desktop widgets | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Lock Screen widgets | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Quick-Log control | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Visual Intelligence | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Wear session Live Activity | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Siri and Shortcuts | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Spotlight | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Visual Intelligence needs a supported iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence. Apple Watch uses its own app and complication instead of these system surfaces.
Widgets, controls, Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, morning reminders, next day rating reminders, and the basic Live Activity are free. Pro adds guided wear prompts, wear session reminders, and richer planning features. See Free vs Pro for the canonical plan boundary.
If a surface looks out of date
Section titled “If a surface looks out of date”- Open Orrique once to refresh data that widgets, controls, Siri, and Spotlight read.
- If Siri does not recognize a newly added scent, open the app once and try again.
- If Spotlight is empty on a new device, wait for the collection download and local index to finish.
- If Quick-Log refuses to log, confirm its configured scent is still wearable. An unconfigured control also asks you to choose a scent after today’s first wear so it cannot silently log a second recommendation.
See Troubleshooting if the problem continues.
Related guides
Section titled “Related guides”The Mac AppUse desktop widgets, menu commands, the menu bar item, and keyboard shortcuts.
The Apple Watch AppUse adaptive daily focus, quick logging, ratings, live check-ins, and the complication.
Device SupportCompare every supported surface by device.
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