Real hardware monitoring
Core temperatures, per-core load, GPU hotspot, fan speeds, memory, disk. These come from an optional background service, so the numbers are the real ones rather than estimates.
Early Access on Steam
Your desktop,
Your desktop,
running live.
Widgey puts a live dashboard in a corner of your screen. Hardware temperatures, weather, markets, match scores, audio spectrums. You decide what goes where, and it's gone the moment you need the space back.
One-time purchase. No subscription, no ads, no account. Windows 10 & 11.
57widgets built in
3dashboard pages
$3.99one time, no subscription
0accounts to create
The basics
What you actually get
Most tools make you go looking for information. This one keeps it in front of you, in a layout you built yourself.
The dashboard
Everything at a glance
Drop widgets onto a grid and read the whole thing in a second. Core temps next to the market you're watching, next to tonight's fixtures. There are three pages, each with its own layout. Switch between them with a keystroke or the scroll wheel.
- Grid up to 8×4. Widgets snap to cells and resize within their own limits.
- Three pages. A monitoring page, a media page, a page for whatever else.
- Hide the chrome. One shortcut strips every header for a clean wall of data.
Pop-outs
Or scatter them across the desktop
Any widget can leave the dashboard and become its own small window. Pin it above other apps, park it on a second monitor, tuck it into a corner while you work. Position and size are remembered, along with whether you pinned it, so your desktop comes back the way you left it.
- Always-on-top pinning per window, not all-or-nothing.
- Multi-monitor aware. A pop-out saved to a monitor you've unplugged comes back on screen, not off it.
- Restored at launch alongside the dashboard itself.
Layout
Drag it where you want it
Pick a grid size, then drag widgets from the palette onto it. That's the whole thing. Every widget declares its own minimum and maximum size, so you can't squash one into a shape it can't render.
- Browse by category. Audio, Finance, Fun, Games, News, Sports, System, Time, Utilities, Weather.
- Live preview of every widget before you place it.
- Per-widget settings behind a gear on the widget itself.
Appearance
Make it look like yours
Change the theme and every widget follows: accent colour, card corners, borders, background opacity, fonts. Widgets get told when the theme changes and restyle themselves. Community ones do too, so your dashboard doesn't end up looking like a ransom note.
- Corner styles and borders from sharp panels to soft cards.
- Transparency to sit over a wallpaper instead of hiding it.
- Pin to the desktop so widgets live behind your windows, not in front.
Details
More than a row of clocks
Audio-reactive visuals
A 64-band spectrum of whatever is playing drives the visualizers. Any widget can ask for the same data, so community authors can build their own.
Markets and news
Stocks and crypto with sparklines. RSS headlines. Live scores for football, baseball, basketball, soccer. All of it updates quietly in the background.
Clocks, timers, calendars
Flip clocks, world clocks, alarms, countdowns, a stopwatch, a month view. Ordinary things, done properly, and readable from across the room.
Sandboxed by design
Community widgets run in an isolated browser container. No file access. No code execution. No network at all unless the widget names the exact hosts it needs.
Light on its feet
It is a native Windows app rather than a packaged browser. It idles quietly, and widgets on a page you are not looking at do not burn cycles keeping themselves current.
The library
57 widgets, included
All of these ship with Widgey. Nothing is locked behind a tier or an upgrade. You buy the app once and the library is yours.
…and 35 more, including Minesweeper, Magic 8-Ball, a program launcher, network and disk monitors, world clocks, RSS feeds and more audio visualizers.
Make your own
If you can write a web page,
If you can write a web page,
you can write a widget
A widget is a folder with an HTML file and a manifest. No SDK, no build step, no
compiler. Write it, drop it in the folder, and Widgey reloads it every time you save. When you
are happy with it, publish to the Steam Workshop from inside the app.
A small bridge API hands you saved settings, live hardware sensors, the audio spectrum, and a heads-up when the theme changes. Everything else is just the web platform you already know.
manifest.json
{
"name": "Server Ping",
"description": "Latency to my game servers",
"version": "1.0.0",
"author": "you",
"glyph": "",
"category": "Utilities",
"permissions": ["network"],
"networkHosts": ["api.example.com"]
} widget.html
// Injected before your scripts run. No plumbing to write.
const temp = await widgey.system.get('cpu_temp');
const bands = await widgey.audio.getBands();
widgey.settings.set('host', 'api.example.com');
Why this exists
I built it to replace iCUE
I wanted a screen that stayed useful while I was playing something. iCUE gave me a dashboard, but not one I could actually shape around what I cared about. So I started building my own, and it turned into this.
The things I check constantly are the things that got built first. Server latency, because I want to know whether it is me or the game. Volume, without alt-tabbing. What is eating my CPU when the fans spin up. Then some things that are just fun, because a screen you stare at all day should have something on it worth looking at.
The grid is 240 by 180 pixels per cell, which is an odd number until you know that the panel mounted under my ultrawide is 1920 by 720. That divides into exactly 8 columns by 4 rows. Most of the layout maths in Widgey traces back to one monitor on one desk, and I would rather tell you that than pretend it came from somewhere more scientific.
Solo project. I have been building it for months, and I am still going. The FAQ has the practical answers.
Before you buy
Common questions
Widgey is a native Windows application rather than a packaged web browser, and it idles when nothing needs redrawing. Widgets update on their own schedules. A clock ticks once a second, a news feed every few minutes, so an idle dashboard is barely doing anything.
Animated widgets like the audio visualizers do real work while they're visible. If you're chasing every frame, put those on a page you're not looking at, or close the dashboard to the tray while you play.
No, and that is on purpose. Widgey starts with Windows, and making your clock wait for a game client to finish booting would be a bad trade.
Steam is only needed for the Workshop: browsing, installing and publishing community widgets. If Steam starts up after Widgey does, Widgey notices and your Workshop widgets appear on their own, without a restart.
Yes. One payment on Steam, no subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, and no account to create. All 57 built-in widgets are included, and community widgets on the Workshop are free.
Each one runs inside its own sandboxed browser container with no access to your files, no ability to run programs, and no network access at all unless it declares the exact hosts it needs, which you can read before installing.
Widgets are also validated on your machine every time they load, not just when published, and there's a kill switch that stops a widget loading everywhere if a real problem is found.
No. Plenty of people run it on one screen, pinned to the desktop behind their windows, or pulled up with a shortcut when they want it. A second monitor is nice, not required.
Put your desktop to work
Widgey is in Early Access, which means I am still adding to it. Buy it once and every update comes with it. The price goes up as it grows.
Windows 10 & 11 · 64-bit · Steam's standard refund policy applies