Alternatives to XWidget for all platforms with any license

Rainmeter

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...

Free Open Source Windows
UI customization Colored Text Custom widgets 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 Support for Multiple Monitors Network Monitoring Performance Monitoring ... Uptime Monitoring Add a feature

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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 System Info Add a feature

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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

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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 System Info Add a feature

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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

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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
Config by GUI instead of text file Hardware Monitoring System Info Add a feature

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8GadgetPack

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

Free Windows
PNG source support Add a feature

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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

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Nerdtool

NerdTool is a GeekTool-like application that displays information directly on your desktop.

Free Open Source Mac
Clock widget Customizable Customizing System Info 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...
- 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
Free Mac
Hardware Monitoring Network Monitoring Add a feature

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AveDesk

AveDesk is a program that will give you the possibility to have icons on your desktop which could update themselves. Each icon of Avedesk is in fact a desklet, a little...

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

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Amnesty Generator

Easily convert millions of web widgets, games and videos – designed to live on home pages, blogs or social network profiles – into gadgets for your Sidebar. If you like...

Free Open Source Mac Windows
No features added Add a feature

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myBoard

myBoard is a Windows port of Mac OS X dashboard. It is an application for Windows operating systems, used for hosting mini-applications known as magnets.

Free Open Source Windows
No features added Add a feature

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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...
- 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
No features added Add a feature

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