What's new

In this update

New

• Send Feedback in the menu bar opens an email to support with your Kakuchi and macOS versions filled in. If Kakuchi ever crashes, it keeps the report so you can attach it.

Fixed

• Edit Widget fits each widget's settings again, so nothing is cut off at the bottom. It opens where you last left it.

Earlier in 0.0.1

New

• Lyrics widget: the words of whatever is playing, in time with the song. The line being sung lights up and the rest fade away as it scrolls. Turn off its card for words right on your wallpaper or lock screen. Find it in the Gallery under Mac.
• Set a mood as your wallpaper. In Moods, Set as Wallpaper makes a mood's picture your Mac's real wallpaper, so it stays even when Kakuchi isn't running. Restore My Wallpaper puts your old one back.
• Resize widgets on the lock screen. Each widget keeps its lock-screen size, so your desktop layout doesn't change.
• Screenshots of the lock screen now include your widgets, so you can share how it looks.
• Setups: a whole desktop in one file, with its widgets, where they sit, the theme and the wallpaper. Install one from Settings › Setups or by opening a .kakuchisetup file, save yours to share, and Put My Desktop Back returns your own.
• Reminders that work. Widgets can now go off on time even while windows cover your desktop, and tell you with a Mac notification. The Timer chimes and notifies you when it's done.
• Wi-Fi widgets can show the band, channel width and the networks around you, without running any commands.
• Build widgets with the AI you already pay for. Settings › AI works with Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity when you're signed in to them, so no API key is needed. Usage counts against your plan.
• Change Design with AI in Edit Widget reopens the widget's own chat, so you can keep refining it.
• Quiet first-run welcome: after you activate your licence, Kakuchi offers a starter set (Clock, To-Do, World Clock, Timer, Year Progress) and places it in free space around anything already on your desktop.
• Widgets snap to each other, the screen margin and the middle of the screen as you drag, with guide lines. Hold Option to move freely.
• The desktop clears while you hold a widget, so you can drop it anywhere, and your windows come back when you let go. You can turn this off in Settings.
• Kakuchi shows in the Dock while Settings or the Gallery is open.
• Widgets can't be added to the desktop without a licence; you get the activation window instead.

Improved

• Settings › AI is simpler. Choose where your AI comes from with Subscription, API Key or Local Model, and see right away whether you're signed in and connected. Model and preview options are together in one place.
• Moods keep your widgets. A mood now sets the backdrop and the theme, and the widgets you already have stay where they are and take on its look. Turning a mood off puts your theme back.
• Connecting a monitor keeps your layout. Widgets keep the same distance from the edges as on your Mac's screen, so a column on the left stays on the left and widgets on the right stay on the right.
• Widgets made with AI now follow your theme. Ask for any widget, even "something random", and it takes its colors and fonts from the theme you picked instead of inventing its own.
• The AI builder checks its work more closely: it notices when a list is cut off at the bottom of a widget with no way to scroll to the rest, and fixes it.
• Settings and the Gallery open on the screen your pointer is on.
• Choosing Settings from the menu bar opens it on the tab you were already on.
• A gallery widget you switch off stays in your list, switched off, until you remove it.
• The licence card and version label are easier to read.

Fixed

• Text boxes in Settings and Edit Widget show their hint and cursor at the start, where you type, instead of in the middle and at the far end.
• Edit Widget opens at the same size and in the same place for every widget, wherever you last left it.
• Settings keeps one size as you switch tabs, without flickering.
• When an AI-made widget asks to run long commands, the Allow and Don't Allow buttons always stay on screen.
• On the lock screen, a button you clicked no longer looks selected after you move away, and the resize corner no longer stays on screen.
• Snap guides no longer stay on the desktop after you let go of a widget.
• Snap guides run only between the widget you're dragging and the one it lines up with, instead of across the whole screen.
• Resizing a widget with a scrolling list (news, feeds, to-dos) no longer shrinks its text or changes its shape. The list fills the new size and keeps scrolling.
• Grabbing a widget's scrollbar scrolls the list instead of moving the widget.
• Your licence now stays after a restart on every Mac, and Unlink This Mac works straight away.