What problem it solves and a comparison: macOS finally has desktop widgets like Color Widgets, but let’s be honest they still have the same old and easy designs, bad Liquid Glas and features. I wanted my desktop to look nicer, so I developed BetterMacWidgets: vibrant, live animated widgets with a glass like appearance that sit right on your desktop you can place them anywhere and arrange them however you like. You can customize the look with “Liquid Glass” you can adjust it from crystal clear (your wallpaper shows through) to a soft, frosted veil, and recolor everything to match your decor. It’s your desktop, so it should look the way you want it to. Features: A true drag-and-drop desktop grid pick any widget, drag it anywhere, resize it, and it snaps neatly into place next to your other tiles. Spread them across multiple pages if you like. It feels just like Apple’s own widgets, except here you’re actually in control About 20 widgets to mix and match: Clock & World Clock, Calendar, Reminders, Weather, “Now Playing” with full media controls, Battery, a system monitor (CPU / GPU / RAM / hard drive with live graphs), battery levels for Bluetooth devices (AirPods, mouse, keyboard…), timer, stopwatch, countdown, unit converter, a photo frame, sticky notes, and more Widgets that are truly dynamic the weather widget actually shows rain, snow, and clear skies depending on the sky, there’s a streaming field of stars, and “Now Playing” subtly tints your widgets in the color of the app currently playing (Spotify green, Apple Music red, etc.) “Now Playing” right on your desktop see what’s playing and skip or pause tracks without interrupting what you’re doing 25 designs plus a glass intensity slider, so you can switch from nearly invisible glass to heavy frost and recolor the whole thing to match your wallpaper Built from the ground up to be battery friendly there’s a power-saving mode that animates only the widget you’re currently viewing, so it consumes virtually no power when idle. (Or crank the setting all the way up to enjoy buttery smooth 60 fps if you don’t care about battery life that day) Privacy comes first no account, no sign in, no telemetry, nothing. Everything stays on your Mac; a network connection is only established when a widget actually needs it (for example, for the weather) Native, Apple-certified, Apple Silicon, macOS 15+ Available at: https://bettermacwidgets.de/ Free download A quick note: Some of the widgets and a few of the extras are included in the Pro version a one time payment of €9.99 with lifetime updates, no subscription required. Everything else remains free forever.

Maker

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2mo ago

Love the design and the fact that it's free with no telemetry. One thing that would make it perfect for me: let me pin a specific widget position so it stays put even when I rearrange others. Right now when I add or remove a widget everything shifts around and I have to redo my layout.

The liquid glass animations on the weather widget are genuinely smooth, way better than I expected for a free app. 18 widgets for nothing is kind of wild.

BetterMacWidgets

Mac Widgets App

Mac Widgets App