Apps with 'Desktop Widget' feature
- Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity.
- TickTick is a simple and effective to-do list and task manager app which helps you make schedule, manage time, remind about deadlines and organize life at home, work and...
- Freemium
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Pebble
- Apple Watch
- Google Chrome
- Android Wear
- Firefox
- Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Basecamp or Pandora fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times?
- Übersicht lets you run system commands and display their output on your desktop in little containers, called widgets.
- XWidget is a free desktop customization platform. It’s light, handy with powerful visual widget editor and very subtle animations. The Android page is found here:...
- The X.Org project provides an open source implementation of the X Window System. The development work is being done in conjunction with the freedesktop.org community. The X.
- Websites have become incredibly powerful tools, often more powerful than traditional desktop apps.
- AveDesk is a program that will give you the possibility to have icons on your desktop which could update themselves.
- Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk".
- gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.
Discontinued
The project is no longer updated since 2011 and the official website is no longer available. The unofficial website http://gdesklets.info/archive/ maintains an archive of new and old desklets.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
- GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone application to do all your mail handling, calendar event reading...
Discontinued
Last version, 1.01, was released on March 2009, but it is still downloadable and usable.
- Free Personal
- Mac
- Windows
- Adobe AIR
- It is a screenlet widget which allows you to display the phase of moon, holiday first names, weather of the three places, course, stock, CPU load, multi CPU/core load, CPU...
- Webrunner was a Prism reimplementation and enhancement.
Discontinued
The project has been discontinued.
No screenshots yet- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Firefox