BetterMacWidgets
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For macOS 15+

Your desktop, alive.

BetterMacWidgets puts desktop widgets right where you work — 8 essential widgets permanently free, free-floating with drag & drop and an invisible snap grid. Pro unlocks all 37 widgets, live weather & lock screen.

Download for Mac (Free)

macOS 15+ · Apple Silicon · 8 widgets free forever

8 widgets free · No telemetry · 37 widgets total

Live Weather

Weather that plays the sky.

RettenbergClear
28°
Feels like 26°22°31°
Now28°
1229°
1329°
1428°
FORECAST
Thu22°31°
Fri21°29°
Sat23°32°
Sun20°27°
06:3020:45

Forecasts are real: Open-Meteo data for your precise or approximate location — or any custom city you type in.

LIQUID GLASS

CLEAR IS PRO

Clear, 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.

CLEAR
15:26Friday, 10 Jul
FROSTED 50%
15:26Friday, 10 Jul
Frosted opacity50%

Frosted — adjustable glass

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

PRO

One 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

  1. 1Drag one widget on top of another on your desktop.
  2. 2They merge into a single slot — one widget on show at a time.
  3. 3Hover the tile and use the ‹ › arrows to flick through; the dots show where you are.
  4. 4Right-click for “Show Next” and “Rotate Every” to switch automatically.

The rules

Same size only

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.

Widgets never overlap otherwise

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

37 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.

SpotifyDEMO
Midnight City
M83
YouTube MusicDEMO
Midnight City
M83
1:14-2:20

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.

System
27
CPU27%
24
GPU24%
70
RAM11/16 GB
86
Disk30 GB free
CPU
47%
BatteryOn batteryCalculating…

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.

4
Reply to Anna1d ago
Pick up groceries18:00
Submit expense reportin 1d
Water the plantsin 1d

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.

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.

5:00
00:00.00
Ready
mkm
1
0.0010
18 ch

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.

4.2MB/s
317KB/s
AirPods ProConnected
82%
Magic KeyboardConnected
64%

Snap Grid

Arrange anything, anywhere — invisible snap grid.

Drag any widget across the desktop and it glides into place. 37 widgets, 20 themes, one grid.

RettenbergRain
28°
Feels like 26°22°31°
Now28°
1229°
1329°
1428°
System
27
CPU27%
24
GPU24%
70
RAM11/16 GB
86
Disk30 GB free
CPU
4
Reply to Anna1d ago
Pick up groceries18:00
Submit expense reportin 1d
Water the plantsin 1d
SpotifyDEMO
Midnight City
M83
New York−6h
09:26
London−1h
14:26
AirPods ProConnected
82%
Magic KeyboardConnected
64%
mkm
1
0.0010
18 ch
47%
BatteryOn batteryCalculating…
4.2MB/s
317KB/s
New Year
174d
5:00
00:00.00
BTC2.34%
27
CPU27%
24
GPU24%
28°

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.

27
CPU27%
24
GPU24%
70
RAM11/16 GB
86
Disk30 GB free
MEMORY
11 GB5 GB free
STORAGE
464 GB30 GB free
CPUpeak34%ø 24%
GPUpeak33%ø 24%
RAMpeak57%ø 54%
Diskpeak80%ø 79%

Gigabytes instead of percentages, peak and average beside them.

Live components at app-exact pixels — the same views the app renders.

CUSTOM WIDGETS

BETA

Can'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.

Custom Widgets is included with BetterMacWidgets, and marked Beta while the format settles.

my-mac.bmwidget
{
  "schema" : 1,
  "name" : "My Mac",
  "symbol" : "cpu",
  "accent" : "#5B8DEF",
  "sizes" : [ "wide", "large" ],
  "rows" : [
    { "elements" : [
      { "type" : "gauge",
        "text" : "{cpu}", "max" : 100 },
      { "type" : "text",
        "text" : "CPU {cpu} %" }
    ] },
    { "elements" : [
      { "type" : "bar",
        "text" : "{ram}", "max" : 100 }
    ] }
  ]
}
42CPU 42 %
Memory
286 GB free
on your desktop
LOCK SCREENBETA

Your widgets, while the Mac is locked

Weather, your battery, the time in another city — readable at a glance without unlocking anything. Your clock, your wallpaper and the password field stay exactly as macOS draws them.

9:41
Berlin
18°
Battery
84%
New York
03:41
  • You decide what a stranger may read

    Every widget can be shown or hidden there, and the ones that carry something personal — your notes, your calendar, your clipboard — start hidden.

  • A click always reaches the password field

    The widgets are drawn on top and take no input at all. Nothing you put there can get between you and unlocking your Mac.

  • Place them on a grid, on every display

    Drag them anywhere that is not reserved by macOS. They snap to a grid and appear on each screen you have.

  • Still by default

    A locked Mac is usually one nobody is watching, so nothing animates unless you ask. If you do, you pick the frame rate.

Included. One purchase buys the whole app, the lock screen with it — it used to be sold separately and is not any more.

Beta: it uses a part of macOS Apple does not document, so a future macOS update can stop it working.

Themes

20 themes. One click.

All 20 curated palettes included with Desktop Widgets

15:26Friday, 10 Jul
47%
DEMO
Midnight City
M83

Pick a palette — every widget on your desktop retints instantly. Surfaces, accents, text, hairlines: one theme, everywhere.

GET STARTED · INSTANT ACCESS

Your Mac Desktop. Elevated.

Bring live, interactive Liquid-Glass widgets to your Mac desktop and lock screen. 8 essential widgets free forever, or unlock full Pro access.

100% Free Forever

Download BetterMacWidgets

8 essential widgets free forever on your Mac desktop: Clock (all sizes), Weather (up to 2×2), Calendar, Reminders, Timer, World Clock, Stopwatch, and Countdown. No subscription, no account.

Download for Mac (Free)
macOS 15+ (Sequoia)Apple Silicon (M1–M4)~7 MBApple Notarized
One purchase

Unlock Pro & Lock Screen

Instant access to all 37 widgets, live weather animations, lock screen widgets, smart stacks, custom widgets, and all 20 themes.

19,99 € once
No subscription · every future update included
Buy the App & Get Pro
Instant license key via emailSecure Stripe checkout14-day money-back guarantee
Everything included in BetterMacWidgets:
✓8 essential widgets permanently free (Clock, Weather, Calendar, Reminders…)
✓All 37 native widgets with Pro (Battery, System, Music, Notes, Photos…)
✓Live weather animations (rain, snow, sun) & display sizes up to 4×3
✓Widgets on macOS lock screen (macOS Standby)
✓Smart widget stacks with auto-rotation
✓All 20 curated themes + Clear Glass look
✓Custom widgets via simple JSON files
✓100% private: Runs locally, zero telemetry
Native Mac app · Apple notarized · Idle CPU usage near zeroWhat's new in 2.3.10 →

FAQ

Questions, answered.

One payment of €19.99 and the app is yours, with €23.99 for two Macs and €27.99 for three. That unlocks the entire app: all 37 widgets, all 20 themes, lock screen widgets, custom widgets, and every future update.

€19.99, paid once. There is no subscription. Your licence key arrives by email straight after checkout and every future update is included.

BetterMacWidgets requires macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later on Apple Silicon (M1 and newer). It's a native Mac app — notarized by Apple, with idle CPU usage near zero.

Privacy-first, by design: no telemetry, no analytics, no app account. Widget data stays on your Mac; network access is limited to weather and location lookups, Now-Playing artwork, license validation and signed update checks.

A license key is digital content delivered instantly. If something does not work on your Mac or you have any issues, simply contact our support team and we will refund your purchase or find a fair solution within 14 days.

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