For macOS 15+
Your desktop, alive.
BetterMacWidgets puts 25 Mac desktop widgets right where you work — many live-animated, all free-floating with drag & drop and an invisible snap grid. And fully private: no telemetry.
macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon · free forever
No telemetry · 25 widgets · 20 themes
Live Weather
Weather that plays the sky.
Forecasts are real: Open-Meteo data for your precise or approximate location — or any custom city you type in.
LIQUID GLASS
CLEAR IS PROClear, actually clear.
Frosted is a real glass pane you can tune from 0 to 100%. Clear removes the tile entirely — only the widget's content floats on your wallpaper.
Frosted — free, and adjustable
A translucent glass card with its own 0–100% opacity slider. Minimal glass that lets your wallpaper shine through, or a dense pane — your call.
Clear — the Pro look
The tile itself disappears. No fill, no rim, no card — just your widgets' content, floating directly on the wallpaper with a soft legibility shadow.
WIDGET STACKS
PROOne slot. As many widgets as you like.
Drop a widget onto another of the same size and they merge into a single stack — flick through the members whenever you like.
How it works
- 1Drag one widget on top of another on your desktop.
- 2They merge into a single slot — one widget on show at a time.
- 3Hover the tile and use the ‹ › arrows to flick through; the dots show where you are.
- 4Right-click for “Show Next” and “Rotate Every” to switch automatically.
The rules
A 3×2 stacks with another 3×2, never with a 2×2. Mixed sizes would leave the smaller widget rattling around inside the bigger slot, so they're pushed apart instead.
Drop a tile on a neighbour it can't stack with and it slides to the nearest free spot.
Stacking is part of BetterMacWidgets Pro — the demo above is exactly how it behaves on your desktop.
The Widgets
Twenty-two widgets. Made for your desktop.
Every tile below is the real widget, rebuilt for the web — same design, same interactions, same themes. Go on, hover around.
Now Playing
Your music, living on glass.
Artwork, marquee titles and real playback progress, mirrored straight from Spotify or Apple Music. Play, pause and skip right on the tile — your desktop becomes the remote.
System Pulse
Watch your Mac breathe.
Animated gauges for CPU, GPU, memory and disk, plus a liquid battery that actually sloshes while it charges. Idle cost stays near zero — widgets only animate while you're looking.
Productivity
Check it off. Jot it down.
Reminders come straight from Apple Reminders — tick a checkbox on the widget and it syncs right back. Next to it, a sticky note that lives on your desktop: your text, your paper color, your font.
Time & Date
Every timezone at a glance.
An analog face with a sweeping second hand, world clocks for the cities you care about, and a calendar that highlights today. All ticking on one shared, battery-friendly heartbeat.
Ambient
A desktop that dreams.
A starfield drifts on a canvas of its own while the Photos widget plays a slow Ken-Burns slideshow of any folder you pick. No photo-library access, no cloud — your pictures never leave your Mac.
Market & World
The whole world, on glass.
A crypto ticker whose digits flash when prices move, and a world map whose day-night line follows the real sun — recomputed from the actual time, so it always matches the sky outside your window.
Toolbox
Small tools, big time-savers.
A live clock, a timer, a stopwatch with lap splits, a unit converter and a password generator — compact where it helps, with wider layouts where the content needs room. Scatter them wherever you need them; they snap neatly into the grid.
Command Center
Launch apps. Watch your gear.
A launcher grid puts your favorite apps one click away, one-tap Shortcut buttons run your automations, the Network widget draws a live throughput chart, and the Bluetooth widget reads real battery levels from your headphones, mouse and keyboard.
Snap Grid
Arrange anything, anywhere — invisible snap grid.
Drag any widget across the desktop and it glides into place. 25 widgets, 20 themes, one grid.
EVERY SIZE
One widget. Six shapes.
A bigger tile is not the same tile stretched. Every size is drawn for the room it has — pick one and watch the System widget rebuild itself.
Gigabytes instead of percentages, peak and average beside them.
Live components at app-exact pixels — the same views the app renders.
CUSTOM WIDGETS
PROBETACan't find the widget you want? Write it.
One small JSON file. Say what it should show — a reading from your Mac, the time, or a number from any JSON address — and it lands on your desktop like every other widget.
{
"schema" : 1,
"name" : "My Mac",
"symbol" : "cpu",
"accent" : "#5B8DEF",
"sizes" : [ "wide", "large", "wideTall" ],
"rows" : [
{
"align" : "leading",
"elements" : [
{ "type" : "gauge", "text" : "{cpu}",
"color" : "accent", "min" : 0, "max" : 100 },
{ "type" : "text", "text" : "CPU {cpu} %",
"color" : "primary", "style" : "headline" }
]
},
{
"elements" : [
{ "type" : "text", "text" : "Memory",
"color" : "secondary", "style" : "caption" },
{ "type" : "bar", "text" : "{ram}",
"color" : "accent", "min" : 0, "max" : 100 }
]
},
{
"align" : "leading",
"elements" : [
{ "type" : "text", "text" : "{disk.free} GB free",
"color" : "secondary", "style" : "caption" }
]
}
]
}Custom Widgets is part of Pro, and marked Beta while the format settles. Building and previewing is free; putting one on the desktop is not.
SMART LAYOUTS
PRO AUTOMATIONThe right desktop for every part of your day.
Save named widget profiles, keep their positions sensible across displays, and switch the whole desktop in one step.
Pick a profile — the desktop swaps live.
Monitor-adaptive profiles
Each profile remembers its widgets and placement, then maps them cleanly when your display setup changes.
Smart switching with Pro
Activate a profile by time, the app in the foreground, or the display that is connected.
Private and local
Profiles and rules stay on your Mac. No account, cloud sync, analytics, or activity history.
Manual profile switching is always one click away. Smart rules are included with BetterMacWidgets Pro.
Themes
20 themes. One click.
3 free + 17 Pro palettes included
Pick a palette — every widget on your desktop retints instantly. Surfaces, accents, text, hairlines: one theme, everywhere.
DOWNLOAD
Free. On your desktop in a minute.
No account, no telemetry, nothing that expires. Download, drag into Applications, done.
Weather, music, clocks, reminders and more — animated and interactive.
Free-floating with drag & drop and an invisible snap grid.
No telemetry. Your data never leaves your Mac.