“I exceeded my total lifetime app store downloads — all my apps over the last 13 years — in a few hours of it when it hit that crazy moment. A viral event outpaces App Store featuring by 10 or 100x. It's insane.”

WidgetSmith Hit #1 With 13 Years of Downloads in a Few Hours

When WidgetSmith went viral on TikTok after iOS 14 introduced home-screen widgets, David's cumulative download total across 13 years of apps was surpassed in hours. He didn't engineer the viral moment — he engineered the app to be first, shareable, and beautiful enough that someone else's TikTok video did the rest.