Kakuchi
Everything it does

Every detail, covered.

The short version is “any widget, anywhere on your Mac”. This is the long one.

Places

Six places for a widget

Every widget can live in any of them, and keeps its settings when you move it.

  • Desktop: under every window, and it stays put through Space switches, full-screen apps, sleep and restarts.
  • Notch: point at it and a shelf slides down. With several widgets, small icons below switch between them.
  • Notch sizes: small, medium or large, with every widget fitted into it separately from its desktop size.
  • No notch? The shelf opens from the same spot at the top centre of the screen.
  • Now Playing in the notch: album art and a moving equalizer beside it while Music or Spotify plays.
  • Menu bar: any widget can become a menu bar item, and a click opens the full widget.
  • Lock screen: your widgets above the password field. Their buttons work. Off by default, since anyone at your Mac can see them.
  • Keep on top: pin a widget above every window, including full-screen apps and calls.
  • It fades when your pointer comes close, so it never blocks what you're doing (you can turn that off per widget).
  • Edge docking: flick a pinned widget at the left or right edge and it docks, picture-in-picture style. A tab brings it back.
Layout

Put things where you want them

Drag, resize, tidy, stack. Your layout is yours.

  • Drag a widget from anywhere on it. It stays exactly where you drop it.
  • Resize from the corner grip, or right-click and choose Size. Widgets built for it get a real new size and show more.
  • Widgets never overlap: drop one onto another and it slides to the nearest free spot.
  • Arrange: Bento packs everything into a tidy grid, also available centred or on the right. Tidy Up lines them up. Undo puts them back.
  • Stacks: two or more widgets share one spot. Hover for arrows and dots, or use the right-click menu.
  • Copies: put the same widget on the desktop several times, each with its own settings, like Weather for London and for Tokyo.
  • Multiple displays: show a widget on the main display, all displays, or a specific one.
  • Lock Widget Positions, Reset Position, and Hide All from the menu bar.
  • Hide Desktop Icons for a clean wallpaper.
  • Open at login, with no Dock icon.
Widgets

50+ widgets, ready on day one

Native-looking, light and dark, with live data.

  • Time: Clock, Flip Clock, Word Clock, World Clock, Timer, Stopwatch, Countdown, Year Progress, Daylight.
  • Weather and money: Weather with a five-day forecast, Markets for stocks and crypto, Currency.
  • Your day: Calendar, Next Meeting with a Join button, Reminders, To-Do, Habits, Focus Session with white noise, Break Coach, Sticky Note.
  • Your Mac: System gauges, Battery, Network, Bluetooth devices, App Launcher, Shortcuts, Clipboard history, screen time by app.
  • Tools: Calculator, Unit Converter, Password Generator.
  • Feeds: RSS and Atom, Hacker News, Reddit, On This Day, Quote of the Day.
  • Web Page: any website live on the desktop, signed in and reloaded on a schedule.
  • For developers: running dev servers, Git status, pull requests, Docker, Homebrew updates, Claude Code usage.
  • Photos and music: a photo frame, and Now Playing for whatever plays in any app, with seeking and artwork.
Make it yours

Settings, themes and a look for everyone

Change what a widget shows without touching code.

  • Every widget has a native settings form: text, sliders, toggles, choices, colours, dates, city search, folders, apps, time zones and editable lists.
  • Changes apply instantly, with no reload.
  • Ten themes: Liquid Glass, Frosted, Clear, Solid, Wallpaper Tint, Midnight, Paper, Terminal, Neon and Pastel.
  • Pick a theme for everything, or give each widget its own, with a live preview of every theme before you choose.
  • Light and dark follow your Mac.
  • Real Liquid Glass on macOS 26. Earlier systems get the standard macOS blur.
  • Secret fields keep API keys in your Keychain, not in a settings file.
  • Hot reload: save a widget and only that widget reloads.
AI

Describe it, and it exists

A widget builder with a live preview, and an MCP server for your own assistant.

  • The builder is a chat on the left and a live preview on the right. Add the result to the menu bar or desktop in one click.
  • It works with Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
  • Bring your own key. Keys stay in your Keychain.
  • Use a local model on your Mac for free and keep everything private.
  • The AI sees a real render and the real errors of its widget, so it fixes its own mistakes before you see anything.
  • It exposes what you might want to change as settings, so “add TSLA” changes a setting instead of rewriting the widget.
  • Built-in MCP server with 15 tools, for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other assistants.
  • Any chatbot works too: paste the result, or open a share link. Copy Error for AI hands a problem back to the chat.
Data

Native data, no scripts

Widgets read live macOS data directly.

  • System, CPU, memory, disk and processes.
  • Battery, network and Bluetooth devices.
  • Audio, displays and running apps.
  • Now Playing from any app: browsers, Music, Spotify, podcasts. No permission prompts.
  • Calendar, reminders and photos.
  • Folders and files, and daily counts of keys, clicks and app switches, kept on your Mac. What you type is never recorded.
  • A source only runs while a widget on screen uses it.
  • Everything pauses while your display sleeps.
Safe by default

Private, and careful with permissions

No account. Nothing leaves your Mac unless a widget you approved sends it.

  • No account and no sign-in.
  • Widgets declare the websites they talk to. Redirects must stay on those sites.
  • Previews never run commands on your Mac.
  • A widget that runs commands, uses the network or reads files is listed in the install sheet and needs your approval.
  • The AI can only edit or delete widgets it made itself.
  • Deleting a widget moves it to the Trash after a confirmation that names everything it removes.
  • Widget pages run under a strict content policy, and only the app's own page can talk to the system.
Compatibility

Runs on your Mac, and on your old widgets

A modern home for the classic desktop widget community.

  • Needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
  • Classic desktop widgets run unchanged, and the app offers to reuse an existing widgets folder.
  • Install from the classic widget gallery, from a share link, or from a file.
  • Widgets are web technologies: HTML, CSS, SVG and canvas, so anything you can draw can be a widget.
  • A design kit makes widgets look native, and is optional.
  • A direct download from this site, not the App Store. It uses system features the App Store doesn't allow.

Put your Mac to work.

$14.99 one-time during launch, with lifetime updates. macOS 14 or later.

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