Widgets on your desktop seem to be a great option to improve productivity, however, it is not recommended to keep widgets on the desktop if you have a small screen. Bonus Tip: If you want to get third-party apps as a widget on your Mac desktop, you can always use Flotato app to get web apps of any of the websites you frequently use. Download Widgets for macOS 10.14 or later and enjoy it on your Mac. Widgets is a collection of digital gadgets, designed to inform, entertain and assist you. Audio Player — Quickly and easily play your local iTunes music files. Available metadata (album cover, song title, album name and artist) is shown for the song that is being played.
Cocktail
Can you mix an, um, Apple Martini? Kamikaze? Or Piper at the Gates of Dawn? The free Cocktail widget powered by 7.com lets you impress buddies with your mixologist skills. Just type the drink you have in mind. Cocktail’s database includes nearly 7,000 drink recipes. Click Feelin Thirsty? for a random selection.
Countdown Plus
Steven Chaitoff’s simple Countdown Plus widget tells you how much time is remaining until a specified date, such as the newborn’s due date, your next vacation, your anniversary, or the day you’ll be paroled.
Daily Dilbert Widget
If you work in an office environment, you’ll love this widget, which delivers Scott Adams’ cartoon strip to your Mac every day. The latest seven comic strips are promised at any given time.
Daily Dilbert Widget
If you work in an office environment, you’ll love this widget, which delivers Scott Adams’ cartoon strip to your Mac every day. The latest seven comic strips are promised at any given time.
Mac Tips and Tricks
Mac Tips and Tricks does what its name suggests − it’s a springboard to tips on all things Macintosh, from listening to music through multiple speakers via AirPlay to fine-tuning the volume on your computer. Check out the widget for other tricks.
Movies
Want to know the flicks playing in the hood? Want to read a synopsis and view trailers to help you decide which to see? That’s just what Movies, a simple film fan widget from Apple, lets you do. Apple supplied the widget with OS X. It even lets you purchase tickets (via Fandango). It’s one of the widgets that has exhibited cranky behavior of late, so hopefully Apple will provide the, um, direction, it needs. In the meantime, anyone up for Hitchcock?
Power Switch
Press (or rather click) this single button in the Dashboard to make something happen on your Mac. What that something is depends on what happens when you click the “i” to configure the widget. You can put the Mac to sleep, log out, restart, or shut down, all after that single click.
You can fine-tune these actions. For example, you can place check marks that will close all Finder windows, empty the trash, eject network volumes, and secure the system. You can have the computer announce all these actions out loud too.
By dragging the slider, you can delay the start before the behavior takes hold, between 0 and 7,000 seconds after you press the button. The button itself will pulsate leading up to the start of the actions you requested.
Power Switch
Press (or rather click) this single button in the Dashboard to make something happen on your Mac. What that something is depends on what happens when you click the “i” to configure the widget. You can put the Mac to sleep, log out, restart, or shut down, all after that single click.
You can fine-tune these actions. For example, you can place check marks that will close all Finder windows, empty the trash, eject network volumes, and secure the system. You can have the computer announce all these actions out loud too.
By dragging the slider, you can delay the start before the behavior takes hold, between 0 and 7,000 seconds after you press the button. The button itself will pulsate leading up to the start of the actions you requested.
Quote of the Day
“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.” Edith Wharton said that. “A true friend is one soul in two bodies.” Aristotle said that. Start your day with the Quote of the Day widget for these and other pearls of wisdom and a photo or illustration of the person who said them.
Starry Night Widget
Want to know what you’re looking at in the evening sky? This interactive planetarium widget can reveal the answers. Click the “i” and then the Time/Place tab to enter your current whereabouts or some other location.
If you place a check mark in the Now box (assuming that it’s not already checked), you’ll be able to identify the galactic objects in the immediate sky. But you can also enter another date or hour — well into the future or deep in the past — to see how space appeared or will appear at that time. You can also display star and planet labels, and constellations.
Translate
If you need to quickly translate a word or phrase, the aptly named Translate widget provides a handy tool. You can translate words to or from English and Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Translate
If you need to quickly translate a word or phrase, the aptly named Translate widget provides a handy tool. You can translate words to or from English and Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Word of the Day
Improve your vocabulary with this widget, which serves up daily definitions from Merriam-Webster.com, Dictionary.com, UrbanDictionary.com, or any of the other sources that developer Code Driven lets you pick from.
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Free Widgets For Mac
Delivery Status 6.3
Dashboard widget that can help you track the status of your package for various websites that allo...
Sports Fan Widget 1.3.95
A simple and unobtrusive Dashboard widget for Mac OS X that enables you to keep track of your favo...
Language Translator 1.4
Easily translate any text between different languages using the Google language translation servic...
Radar In Motion 2.8.1
Dashboard widget that displays radar images from the Weather Channel
Screenshot Plus Widget 3.4
Grab screenshots of your entire desktop, windows, other widgets or specific areas of your screen, ...
Currency Converter 2.0.2
A practical and easy-to-use Dashboard widget that automatically calculates the currency conversion...
Canadian Weather Forecast 5.8
Reference the current weather conditions and 5-day weather report for all major Canadian cities
DNActions 1.2
A simple widget that offers you the possibility to quickly process and perform different actions o...
BBC Radio Widget 4.7
A minimalist Mac OS X Dashboard widget that offers you the possibility to listen to more than 50 n...
MailWidget 3.61
Be notified of new email every time you open Dashboard
Australia Post Widget 1.7.0
Australia Post Widget - Search AusPost without internet connection
Mac Desktop Widgets
Satellite Images 2.8
A widget that will display an animation of the latest satellite images of North and South America.
Unepic 1.5.2
A role-play game where you must explore dungeons, defeat enemies, complete quests and level up you...
Microsoft Remote Desktop
Apple Xcode
Keysmith
Mimestream
VLC Media Player
Hackintool
Clover Configurator
AppCleaner
Alfred
Amphetamine
Hidden Bar
Aerial
Keka
Rectangle
The Unarchiver
- AppCleaner
- Alfred
- Amphetamine
- Hidden Bar
- Aerial
- Keka
- Rectangle
- The Unarchiver
- Microsoft Remote Desktop
- Apple Xcode
- Keysmith
- Mimestream
- VLC Media Player
- Hackintool
- Clover Configurator
Step Seq 2.0
Have fun composing music from your Dashboard
DashboardDock 1.0
A widget that brings the Dock into your Dashboard
TPG Usage 1.11
A free widget that enables users to effortlessly monitor the bandwidth status and past month's usa...
FlipClock 2.0
Simple flip clock for your Dashboard
SMSwiss 1.0.9
An OS X Dashboard widget that enables you to send SMS with most of the Swiss SMS providers: Sunris...
Docx Converter 1.1
Drag and drop based and free Dashboard widget created to help you effortlessly and quickly convert...
Firewall Switch 2.5
Check if your firewall is on, and switch it on or off using this great Dashboard widget
Bluetooth Switch 2.4
Check if Bluetooth is on and switch it on or off with this lovely dashboard widget.
Notefile Widget 1.6.2
Dashboard widget that helps you manage daily notes
MLB Schedule Widget 3.0
A small Mac OS X Dashboard widget that offers you the possibility to visualize the schedule of any...
BBC Weather Widget 1.0.6
A lightweight and practical Dashboard widget that offers you accurate 5 day weather forecast from ...
iStat Pro 4.92
A well-designed and practical monitoring widget that displays useful information about the CPU, me...
DonkeyKong 3.0.1
Play DonkeyKong in your Dashboard.
RetroGmer 3.0.1
Have fun playing retro games from your Dashboard
Overtorque Stunt Racing 1.0.1
Have fun racing cars from your Dashboard
iChrono 1.1
A simple stopwatch (minutes, seconds, tenths) within reach
Time Machine Buddy 1.08
Allows you to see the system logs generated by your Time Machine