Alternatives to XWidget for all platforms with any license

Rainmeter

Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float...

Free Open Source Windows
UI customization Colored Text Customizable Hardware Monitoring ... Live Wallpapers Skinnable Add a feature

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Conky

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. Originally a fork of Torsmo, Conkys torsmo-based code is BSD...

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Hardware Monitoring Add a feature

149 Like
MenuMeters for El Capitan

This is a port to OS X El Capitan 10.11 of MenuMeters by Alex Harper. MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network...

Free Open Source Mac
Hardware Monitoring Add a feature

14 Like
KDE Plasma Workspaces

Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE. Plasma separates components into "data engines" and their visualization...

Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

9 Like
GKrellM

GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Hardware Monitoring Add a feature

16 Like
GeekTool

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...

Free Mac
Applescript Hardware Monitoring Add a feature

22 Like
Moss

Moss is a live wallpaper, an alternative to Conky for Android. It provides system statistics such as uptime, cpu usage, network usage, top processes, and battery level.

Free Open Source Android Android Tablet
Outside temperature Add a feature

5 Like
8GadgetPack

8GadgetPack makes it possible to use gadgets on Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10.

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

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MiniUsage

MiniUsage displays various data like CPU usage, amount of network flow, battery status and process names which uses much CPU time in a menubar. It takes little space and...

Free Mac
Activity Monitor Hardware Monitoring Network Monitoring Add a feature

4 Like
- Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 3.0.0, released in April 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website, but it doesn’t work on macOS 10.13
iPulse

Using its concise and appealing user interface, iPulse graphically displays the inner workings of OS X on your desktop, menu bar or Dock.

Commercial Mac
Hardware Monitoring Add a feature

4 Like
Moo0 System Monitor

Lets you keep your eye on system resource usages of your PC. It supports 43 kinds of information including CPU, Memory, Network, and detailed HDD usages, so you may...

Free Personal Windows
Hardware Monitoring Portable System analysis Temperature Monitoring ... Web-Based Add a feature

3 Like
Cysboard

Cysboard - A lightweight system monitor similar to conky with html and css for themes

Free Linux
No features added Add a feature

1 Like
gDesklets

gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. You can...

Free Open Source Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

3 Like
- 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.
ThemeWidgets

Theme Widgets has eight small apps that run on your PC desktop. The apps cover different tasks such as: clock, calculator, weather, notes, calendar, timer, stopwatch and...

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

2 Like
- Discontinued Website unavailable.
Desktop Info

This little application displays system information on your desktop in a similar way to some other desktop information tools. Unlike others, this application looks like...

Free Windows
Hardware Monitoring Portable Add a feature

11 Like