Statlet
Live information in your Android status bar. No root, no custom ROM.
Statlet puts the numbers you actually check into the status bar: the outside temperature, how fast your connection is moving right now, how hot the phone is running. They sit next to the clock and update on their own.
What it can show
- WeatherOutside temperature as text, plus sky conditions as a pictogram with day and night variants.
- Network speedDownload, and optionally upload on a second line.
- Phone temperatureFrom the SoC sensor where the kernel exposes it, from the battery sensor otherwise.
- BatteryCharge level, with a marker while charging.
- RAMHow much memory is in use, as a percentage.
- StorageFree space on the internal storage.
How it works
Android has no API for drawing in the status bar. What does get drawn there is a notification’s small icon — so that is what Statlet uses. Every icon you enable is a silent, ongoing notification whose small icon the app redraws with the current value.
That is the whole mechanism, and it is why the app needs no root and no special privileges. It also means the icons play by the notification system’s rules:
- Android 15 and earlier — each widget gets its own icon.
- Android 16 and later — the system bundles an app’s notifications and draws a single icon for the group. Statlet shows one icon and cycles it through your enabled values; pull the shade down and every value is readable at once.
Each icon gets its own notification channel, so any one of them can be muted or hidden from the system settings without touching the others.
Weather without an account
Weather comes from Open-Meteo, which needs no API key and no sign-up. If you prefer OpenWeatherMap, enter your own API key in the settings — it stays on your device, and Statlet ships none of its own.
Location is optional: grant approximate location, or just search for a city by name.
Honest about the limits. The icons are notifications, so their order follows the notification ranking, and some manufacturer skins rearrange them or cap how many an app may show. Without root there is no public API for CPU temperature, so the phone-temperature icon falls back to the battery sensor when the kernel keeps its thermal zones private — the notification always says which sensor answered.
Privacy in one paragraph
No account, no server of ours. Your coordinates go to the weather service when a weather icon is enabled, and nothing else leaves the device unless you switch on the optional crash reports or usage statistics — neither of which ever includes what your icons measure. The full text is on the Privacy Policy page.
Get it
Statlet requires Android 6.0 or later.
- Changelog — what changed in each release
- Source code
- Privacy Policy · Terms of Service