WINDOWS APP / DESKTOP WIDGETS
Widgets
An app that lets you freely place widgets on a Windows 11 desktop. It does not run in a browser. Get this WinUI 3 app from its GitHub repository — it is a beta build (v0.1.0-beta).
- OSWindows 10 (1809) or later / Windows 11
- Widget types16
- StatusBeta (v0.1.0-beta)
16 widget types
Time widgets (clock, analog clock, world clock, date, calendar), info widgets (weather, astronomy, countdown), system widgets (system monitor, CPU, GPU, network, disk, battery), and personal widgets (photos, notes). Pick one from the gallery and it's added immediately, opening straight into the editor.
Sizing and appearance
Five fixed sizes plus a custom size that can be resized freely between 96 and 1200px on each axis. Font, color, shape and background (solid / frost / Mica / transparent / photo) are all adjustable, and 16 preset themes are included.
System monitoring and real FPS
CPU, GPU, network and disk each get a dedicated widget. FPS is measured from Windows ETW (Present events) and shows the actual frame rate of the foreground game or app, with its process name attached. It needs administrator rights; without them it falls back automatically to the desktop's overall composition rate.
How the transparency works
The "transparent" and "frost" backgrounds don't use Windows' acrylic effect — they capture the actual desktop rendering with PrintWindow and composite it in. Since widgets always sit below every other window (just above the wallpaper), what's behind them is guaranteed to be the desktop.
Getting it and data handling
Build it yourself from the GitHub repository or grab a published build. It supports Windows 10 version 1809 and later, or Windows 11, on x64 or ARM64, with the runtime bundled in. Settings and widget definitions are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Widgets\widgets.json. Only the weather widget calls an external API (Open-Meteo); everything else works offline.