The Best 23 XWidget 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

  • GKrellM icon

    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

  • KDE Plasma Workspaces icon

    KDE Plasma Workspaces

    Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE. Plasma separates components into "data engines" and their visualization...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • 8GadgetPack icon

    8GadgetPack

    8GadgetPack makes it possible to use gadgets on Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10.

    Free Windows

  • 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

  • iPulse icon

    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

  • gDesklets icon

    gDesklets

    gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. You can...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • ThemeWidgets icon

    ThemeWidgets

    Theme Widgets has eight small apps that run on your PC desktop. The apps cover different tasks such as: clock, calculator, weather, notes, calendar, timer, stopwatch and a whiteboard. This will hopefully grow over time.

    Free Windows

  • Free Desktop Widget Toolbox icon

    Free Desktop Widget Toolbox

    Download a multi widget toolbox. Use an elegant and clean display with one-click access. Use widgets, including Countdown Timer, Logbook Calculator, Month view Calendar...

    Free Windows

  • AveDesk icon

    AveDesk

    AveDesk is a program that will give you the possibility to have icons on your desktop which could update themselves. Each icon of Avedesk is in fact a desklet, a little...

    Free Windows

  • Cysboard icon

    Cysboard

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

    Free Linux

  • Open Sidebar icon

    Open Sidebar

    Open Sidebar is a vertical bar on your Windows Desktop that helps you keep your gadgets organized. This project is written on C#.

    Free Open Source Windows