Eww Alternatives

Eww is described as 'Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager' and is a desktop customization tool in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Eww for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Wayland and BSD apps. The best Eww alternative is Rainmeter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Eww are Wigify, Conky, ViBox and Cairo-Dock.

Eww alternatives page was last updated Nov 14, 2025

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lemonbar
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lemonbar (formerly known as bar) is a lightweight statusbar based on XCB. Provides full UTF-8 support, basic formatting, RandR and Xinerama support and EWMH compliance without wasting your precious memory.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Linux
FreeBSD
NetBSD
openSUSE
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wf-shell
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wf-shell is a repository which contains the various components needed to built a fully functional DE based around wayfire. Currently it has only a GTK-based panel and background client.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
Wayland
Linux
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Widgy Widgets
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With Widgy, your home and lock screens becomes YOUR screens. You can make any kind of widget imaginable that perfectly matches the rest of your aesthetics. All the information you need can be easily surfaced through a widget that you designed.
16 Widgy Widgets alternatives
Cost / License
Freemium
Proprietary
Platforms
Mac
iPhone
iPad
Apple Watch
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