KAVIBAY

Windows desktop widgets

Desktop widgets for Windows 11 and 10.

Windows 11's own widgets live on the Widgets board, a panel that slides in from the side of the screen — they do not sit on your desktop. Kavibay puts widgets where you can arrange them: on one transparent layer over your desktop, next to a command palette, a double tap of Ctrl away.

Kavibay desktop widgets on Windows: todo, notes, clock, weather and a pomodoro timer around the command palette.
A desk with five widgets. Clicks between the cards fall through to the windows below.

Widgets that come with it

31 widgets ship with the app. A few of them:

Kavibay clock widget showing 06:36:51, Thursday, November 05, 2026.

Clock widget

Local time with optional seconds and a timezone. Add one card per city.

Kavibay weather widget: 14 degrees and partly cloudy in Lisbon, with a four-day forecast.

Weather widget

Current weather and the next days for a city you choose, from Open-Meteo — no API key needed.

Kavibay Now Playing widget showing a Spotify track with previous, pause and next buttons.

Spotify widget

Now Playing shows what is playing — Spotify included — with play, pause and skip. Spotify Playlists lists your playlists and opens one.

Kavibay to-do widget with three tasks, one checked off.

To-do widget

A nestable checklist: drag to reorder, edit inline, check things off.

Kavibay notes widget with a short standup list.

Notes widget

Sticky notes with rich text — headings, lists, the meeting you are about to forget.

Kavibay pomodoro widget showing a 25:00 focus session.

Pomodoro widget

Work and break sessions that keep ticking while the desk is hidden.

The rest: Alarm, Calculator, Calendar (Google), Clipboard history, Color Picker, Emoji Picker, Focus Tracker, GitHub Actions, Image, Launcher Buttons, Moodist ambient sounds, Single Purpose AI, Snake, Snippets, Stocks, Stopwatch, System Info, tado°, Time Tracker, Timer and more — the full list.

Spotify Playlists, Calendar and the other account-based widgets connect once in Settings. In version 0.1, Spotify and Google Calendar ask for a Client ID from their developer console; Now Playing needs nothing.

How they sit on your desktop

  • Double-tap Ctrl to show the desk and the palette; again to hide it.
  • Pin the widgets you want on screen all the time. They stay above your windows.
  • Hold Ctrl+Space to peek at the rest, and let go to get your screen back.
  • Several desks — one for work, one for the evening — switched with Ctrl+Shift+1…9.
  • Duplicate any widget: two clocks, two cities, separate settings.

To add one, open the palette, type the widget's name and press Enter.

When the widget you want doesn't exist

Describe it. The Widget Wizard writes a widget from a sentence, previews it in a sandbox, and Save puts it on your desk. It uses your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, a few cents per widget — or Claude Code and Codex over MCP. Coming from Rainmeter? See Kavibay as a Rainmeter alternative.

A water tracker widget built by the Widget Wizard, on the desk beside the command palette.
A water tracker the Wizard built, saved to the desk.

Questions

How do I put widgets on my desktop in Windows 11?

Windows itself keeps widgets on the Widgets board. For widgets you place yourself, install a widget app — with Kavibay: install it, double-tap Ctrl, type the widget's name, press Enter, and drag it where you want it.

Does it work on Windows 10?

Yes. Version 0.1 supports Windows 10 and 11.

Is it free?

Yes, and open source. No account, no subscription.

Can widgets read my accounts' data safely?

Keys and tokens are encrypted at rest with Windows DPAPI and used only inside Kavibay's Rust backend. Widgets get the data, never the key.

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