Quick answer
A widget gallery should be easy to navigate months after you created your first design. Useful names and a preserved working copy help you find the right version without opening every thumbnail.
Give designs useful names
“Widget 8” tells you very little when you return a month later. Use names based on purpose and format, such as “Wide battery — light” or “Portrait quote — blue.” If you work with multiple home-screen pages, include a short location clue in the name.
Try it on your home screen
- Name items by function and size, for example 'Wide clock — dark' rather than 'Widget 8'.
- Open an older design and check whether its source settings and images are still present.
- Before major changes, duplicate or export a design if your app supports that feature.
- After importing a template, inspect its values before treating the thumbnail as proof of live data.
Separate a draft from a finished result
Keep an experimental version while you test crop, typography or progress behavior. Once you like a design on the actual launcher, give it a stable name and avoid using it as a scratchpad. A duplicate or imported template is still a local Gallery item, not a backup stored online.
WidgetCraft's free tier allows up to 10 saved authored or imported Gallery widgets. Pro removes that count limit. Reaching a limit should not make you delete a useful design blindly: decide which drafts you no longer need and verify a completed version is preserved before cleaning up.
Know where recovery lives
WidgetCraft includes draft recovery and undo/redo for editing, but do not treat those editing conveniences as an unlimited cloud version history. No mandatory account or cloud sync is provided. If your phone is reset or storage is cleared, local designs may be lost unless you have a supported export or backup method you have actually verified.
Before resetting an app to fix an issue, read what happens to local widget data. A widget is worth saving twice when you spent time perfecting the layout.
Check the result
Removing a widget from the launcher can be different from deleting a saved design inside the app. Clearing application storage, however, may permanently remove locally saved work. Before reinstalling, confirm which backup or export method actually exists and test it where possible.
Common question: Will removing the home-screen widget erase the gallery design?
That depends on the app. Check the Gallery before deleting anything. Launcher placement and in-app saved documents are often separate objects.