A method and a mobile terminal for displaying an application with a widget are disclosed. The method includes: monitoring actively by the widget activation of a first application, and acquiring its activation information; monitor actively by the widget deactivation of the first application, and acquiring its deactivation information; acquiring by the widget the latest information of the application when the application is deactivated, and displaying the latest information. The mobile terminal includes a widget module, a supervision unit configured to monitor the activation or deactivation of a first application in the mobile terminal, an acquisition unit configured to acquire the activation or deactivation information generated and transmitted by the supervision module and acquire the latest information of the first application when the deactivation information is acquired, a display unit configured to display the latest information of the first application that is acquired by the acquisition unit. By the above means, the present disclosure can perceive the user's usage habits, and thus update the user-interested contents in the widget.