The Best 18 Desktop Info Alternatives

  • Conky icon

    Conky

    Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. Originally a fork of Torsmo, Conkys torsmo-based code is BSD licensed. New code in Conky has been licensed under the GPL 3.0.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • XWidget icon

    XWidget

    XWidget is a free desktop customization platform. It’s light, handy with powerful visual widget editor and very subtle animations. The Android page is found here: http://android.xwidget.com/

    Free Windows Android Android Tablet

    Portable Lightweight
  • Bginfo icon

    Bginfo

    How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its...

    Free Windows

  • Übersicht icon

    Übersicht

    Übersicht lets you run system commands and display their output on your desktop in little containers, called widgets.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • BitBar icon

    BitBar

    The BitBar app lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. And it's completely free.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • Moss icon

    Moss

    Moss is a live wallpaper, an alternative to Conky for Android. It provides system statistics such as uptime, cpu usage, network usage, top processes, and battery level.

    Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

  • BGINFO4X icon

    BGINFO4X

    BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Windows created by Sysinternals. You can refer it as BGINFO for Linux, BGINFO for Unix...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

  • KLWP Live Wallpaper Maker icon

    KLWP Live Wallpaper Maker

    Create you own designs and display any data you need, at once, and with wonderful animations too! If you were looking for Rainmeter or Conky on Android, this is it! With Kustom you can create customized Digital and Analog Clocks (with...

    Freemium Android Android Tablet

  • Motherboard Monitor icon

    Motherboard Monitor

    Motherboard Monitor is a utility designed by Alexander Van Kaam for Microsoft Windows that provides live information about the state of a motherboard and other hardware...

    Free Windows

  • WPInfo icon

    WPInfo

    WPInfo displays system information on the Windows wallpaper. It works similarly to BGInfo from SysInternals but it adds a few unique features: - Picks the background...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • TinyResMeter icon

    TinyResMeter

    TinyResMeter is a small tool that displays useful information about system resources in real time, but it also gives much more detail when you right-click on the...

    Free Windows

  • AlomWare 64 icon

    AlomWare 64

    AlomWare 64: See your PC's stats as a live C64 wallpaper! The best-selling computer of all time comes alive again on your PC! Lovingly made for all C64 fans...

    Commercial Windows

  • Cysboard icon

    Cysboard

    Cysboard - A lightweight system monitor similar to conky with html and css for themes

    Free Linux