The Best 15 GeekTool Alternatives

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    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

    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

  • GKrellM

    GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • iPulse

    Using its concise and appealing user interface, iPulse graphically displays the inner workings of OS X on your desktop, menu bar or Dock.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • XMeters

    Taskbar System Monitoring for Windows.

    Freemium Windows

  • Cysboard

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

    Free Linux