Quickesign Widgets

Quickesign has many "widgets" to allow you to add dynamic info and design options to your screens. The Canva and Design Tool widgets are available with the Standard plan. All other widgets come with the Pro plan.



Canva

Canva has thousands Of Custom Templates And Stock Images that you can use with Quickesign. Canva is a Quickesign widget that all Quickesign users with the standard plan can access.

Quickesign Design Tool

This tool provides a large selection of templates that you may edit and incorporate those slides into your layout.

You may also design your own. The design tool has a robust set of features including

- a library of badges, clip art, flat icons, quotes, and shapes
- robust text formatting and design
- QR codes
- fun drawing tools

Weather

Weather is a popular widget. Quickesign has three different styles. You may also have a transparent background and overlay the weather on top of your own background.

Here are a few samples:

Facebook and Instagram

This widget lets you add a public Facebook or Instagram feed. First, enter a public page such as

https://www.facebook.com/Quickesign/
Then enter the number of posts to include, whether text should display, and the image style, then click Add Widget. Here is a sample Instagram post from a doggy daycare:

Famous Quotes

Display random famous quotes by category or build your own database of quotes to display on a stylish slide:

RSS Feeds

This widget creates slides from an rss feed. Choose from one of the many popular feeds or input a custom feed. Example RSS feeds 04/10/2026:









Feeds may also be all scrolling text by adding them to text zones in the multizone editor.

External Link

With the External link widget, you can include files that are stored on other servers. The link must be a direct link to a jpg, png, or mp4 file.

For example, https://www.filehost.com/yourfile.png links directly to a png image.

Webpage Snapshot

The snapshot widget allows a public webpage to display as a slide. The page will be updated periodically (hourly). Contact support if you need more frequent updates.

When adding the snapshot widget, you can enter the width and height of the snapshot image. This can be useful to fine tune the area that is captured from the website.

Calendar (Google or Outlook)

With this widget, you copy a script from your Google or Outlook calendar so that it will display as a slide in a slideshow. Google has some flexibility (agenda, weekly, monthly). Outlook only displays as a monthly view. See the help section for the steps to add your calendar:

Calendar Help

Google Doc

This widgets can display your Google doc as a slide in a slideshow. The slide will update every hour.

Google Doc Help

Youtube Video

Youtube videos are added to your layout using the video ID. The video ID is at the end of the youtube url. For example, this url
The id is V8uzfKQYiyY

Or click share in youtube and you get this shortened link:
https://youtu.be/V8uzfKQYiyY

Again, the id is at the end: V8uzfKQYiyY

Roku displays do not support Youtube videos

QR Codes

The QR Codes widget lets Quickesign Pro users design any number of customized QR Codes. These may be downloaded and used in print material or other applications.

The may also be added to your Quickesign layouts. When created, a png image is stored in the QR Codes folder in your file library. You can add the QR Code to your layout from the file library

From the file library, you can edit the QR Code settings and view usage details.

   

Event List widget

The event list widget lets you display a list of events by date and time. This is used in event centers generally with multiple events in a day.
You enter a date, start time, end time, and description. Events will automatically be removed from the display as they pass.

You can add this widget only to a multizone layout either by choosing the Event List Widget template when creating a new layout or by clicking Events when editing a multizone layout: