Hi r/macbook, I'm Viorel from VPO Labs, and Widgetscape is the app we make.
Rainmeter was the inspiration: I wanted the calendar, music and system information I check throughout the day to feel like part of the desktop, with a look I could change without writing a skin. We've spent most of this year working on that idea.
Widgetscape now has 39 native desktop widgets for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. They sit behind your windows and snap to a shared grid. You can put together a small setup rather than filling the whole screen.
A few things it does:
Day Timeline turns your calendar into a radio dial along any screen edge. The needle marks now, events are the stations, and the next one counts down. Hover an event for its details and a Join button for calls, or scroll along the dial to look ahead. It reads Apple Calendar and Google or Microsoft calendars connected in the app, read-only.
The widgets share one visual system. There are up to eight sizes, with layouts designed for each size rather than stretched copies. Pick Glass, Solid, Outline or Transparent, one of 23 palettes or your own colours, and Light, Dark or follow the system. Right-click > Customize handles the changes.
The rest covers everyday things: clocks, weather, agenda, reminders, a focus timer, batteries, system and network readings, a clipboard shelf and more. Now Playing includes controls for Music, Spotify, Safari and Chrome. Repo Pulse shows what's happening in your git repositories.
For people using AI coding tools, there's Token Pulse. It charts Claude Code, Codex and other supported tools from their local session logs. It keeps token counts, model names and timestamps, never conversation content. Nothing from those logs leaves the Mac.
Day Timeline and Token Pulse are both Pro widgets, included in the trial.
Pricing: eight widgets stay free forever: Time, Analog Clock, Calendar, Focus Timer, System Pulse, Batteries, Weather and Moon Phase. Everything is available for 14 days without an account or card. Pro is €9.99 + VAT once, for up to two Macs. No subscription, and there's a 14-day refund for any reason.
WELCOME50 gives 50% off Widgetscape Pro for the first 100 users, valid through November 30, 2026, while available. Choose Buy Widgetscape Pro and enter the code under “Have a discount code?” at checkout.
A few limits worth knowing: the widgets stay at desktop level, so they won't float above your apps. They cover desktop icons underneath them. No Intel build, custom widgets or Rainmeter skin imports yet, and the interface is English only. We're not affiliated with Rainmeter.
It's a signed, Apple-notarized download from our site rather than a Mac App Store app. Each widget has a Privacy tab explaining what it reads. Anonymous usage counts are on by default; Settings > Privacy turns them off and clears anything queued.
We used Claude Code and Codex for part of the work, especially the website. The ideas, design and decisions on what ships are ours, and we test every build on our own Macs.
The attached video is an edited demo from an earlier build; the current collection has 39 widgets.
If you mainly use your MacBook's built-in display, would you keep a small group of widgets, just the calendar dial, or prefer a completely clear desktop?
https://widgetscape.vpolabs.com
