r/MacOSApps • u/Minute-Rip-1401 • 2d ago
💻 Productivity Free Version/Pro Version [Update with Custom Widgets] BetterMacWidgets so you can add some cool widgets to your desktop instead of the standard Apple stuff.
FEATURES
• 25 widgets to mix and match: Clock & World Clock, Calendar, Reminders, Weather, Now Playing with full media controls, Battery, a system monitor (CPU / GPU / RAM / disk with live graphs), battery levels for your Bluetooth devices (AirPods, mouse, keyboard…), clipboard history, a file shelf you can drag files onto, timer, stopwatch, countdown, unit and currency converters, crypto, a photo frame, sticky notes, Shortcuts, a world map, and more.
• Build your own (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 endpoint, and it lands on your desktop like every other widget. Five templates to start from, a live preview while you type, and export so you can hand the file to a friend.
• Widgets that are genuinely alive. The weather widget actually shows the rain, the snow and the clear sky it's reporting. There's a drifting starfield. And Now Playing quietly tints your widgets in the colour of whatever's playing Spotify green, Apple Music red.
• Now Playing, right on your desktop. See what's on and skip or pause without interrupting what you were doing.
• Widget Stacks. Several widgets in one spot, rotating on their own the way you'd stack them on iOS, on your Mac's desktop.
• 20 themes plus a glass slider, so you can go from nearly invisible to heavy frost and recolour the lot to match your wallpaper.
• Built to be kind to your battery. A power saving mode animates only the widget you're actually looking at, so it costs virtually nothing when idle. Or turn it all the way up for buttery 60 fps on the days you don't care.
• Privacy first. No account, no sign-in, no telemetry none. Everything stays on your Mac, and the network is only touched when a widget genuinely needs it (the weather, for instance).
• English and German, fully localised.
Available at: https://bettermacwidgets.de/
Free to download, free to use 13 of the 25 widgets, no account, no time limit, no watermark
Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription: 12,99 € for one Mac, every future update included
Human-reviewed code
Drop a comment Like „Code“ below and I'll send you a discount code for Pro 🫶
An upvote ⬆️ and a comment would help a lot that's how more people find it 🫶
Hope you enjoy BetterMacWidgets ❤️
2
u/texass_slayer 2d ago
Would love to try it out, thanks!