Conky AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Desktop Customization Tools

The best Desktop Customization alternative to Conky is Rainmeter, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Conky and 17 are Desktop Customization Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Desktop Customization Tool alternatives to Conky are Seelen UI, ViBox, Sidebar Diagnostics and Eww.

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  1. Rainmeter icon

    Rainmeter

     517 likes

    Transform your Windows desktop with customizable skins for displaying system resources, weather updates, RSS feeds, and more. Community-driven, Rainmeter offers real-time data monitoring, enhanced aesthetics, and privacy-focused features. Its portable design requires no installation and includes a dark mode.

    45 Rainmeter alternatives

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    • Windows
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  2. Seelen UI icon

    Seelen UI

     55 likes

    Web-based customizable desktop environment integrated with Windows 10/11 offers tiling window manager, intuitive configuration, widget and menu adjustments, theme personalization, taskbar layout options, wallpaper management, streamlined multitasking, and workflow optimization.

    17 Seelen UI alternatives

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    • Windows
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  4. ViBox icon

    ViBox

     21 likes

    Make your desktop truly yours with the power of wide-ranging personalization options offered by ViBox. We believe that your desktop should reflect your style, needs, and preferences, and that's why we've crafted a widget experience that goes beyond the ordinary.

    28 ViBox alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Global
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  5. Sidebar Diagnostics icon

    Sidebar Diagnostics

     82 likes

    Offers at-a-glance hardware monitoring for CPU, RAM, GPU, network, and drives through a customizable sidebar with alerts, hotkey support, multi-DPI compatibility, an integrated clock, themes, and clear graphical statistics on the Windows desktop.

    71 Sidebar Diagnostics alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  6. Eww icon

    Eww

     17 likes

    Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.

    69 Eww alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
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  8. XWidget icon

    XWidget

     38 likes

    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: http://android.xwidget.com/

    38 XWidget alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Steam
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  10. DeskDash icon

    DeskDash

     4 likes

    DeskDash turns your Windows desktop background into a live dashboard of widgets that sit behind your open windows. Build your own or install from a secure community-based marketplace.

    24 DeskDash alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    • European Union flagEU
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    OpenAnima

     1 like

    OpenAnima is an open-source Windows desktop overlay engine for animated and static assets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  12. GeekTool icon

    GeekTool

     25 likes

    GeekTool is an application for Mac OS 10.6+. It lets you display various kinds of information on your desktop via 3 default plug-ins:

    • File plugin to monitor MacOS X activity
    • Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands
    • Image mode
    22 GeekTool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • European Union flagEU
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  14. nwg-wrapper icon

    nwg-wrapper

     2 likes

    This program is a GTK3-based wrapper to display a script output, or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors. It uses the gtk-layer-shell library to place the window on the bottom layer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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