Free Mac Dashboard Widgets

Dashboard is disabled by default in MacOS Mojave, but if you’re a fan of the handy underappreciated widgets feature on the Mac, for quick access to things like unit conversion tools, weather reports, calendar, a dictionary and thesaurus, world clocks, and more, then you will be happy to know that you can quickly enable Dashboard in MacOS Mojave. Free ‘Amnesty Screen Saver’ lets Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets run as Screen Savers – August 11, 2005 Runaway hit: Apple Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard Widgets pass one thousand milestone – August.

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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...

Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later (PPC & Intel)

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 OS X 10.4 or later (PPC & Intel)

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...

Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later (Intel only)

Keka

Powerful yet easy to use file archiver for macOS based on a 7za port that enables you to both compress and extract files with a drag and drop

Rectangle

Refine window management on macOS using dedicated snap areas and customizable keyboard shortcuts to resize windows and move them instantly

The Unarchiver

Powerful and very fast archive expander designed to decompress Zip, Rar, 7-zip,Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, StuffIt, LhA and many other archive formats

Microsoft Remote Desktop

Offers you the possibility to quickly connect to a Windows-based computer in order to work with its programs and files, access data and more

Keysmith

Create keyboard shortcuts for simple or highly complex strings of actions, on your desktop and in various applications, by just recording yourself performing the steps

Mimestream

Native macOS Gmail client that uses Google's API in order to provide you with the Gmail features you know and love, all in an efficient Swift-based app

VLC Media Player

Multi-platform multimedia player that helps its users play, convert and stream most popular video and formats via a simple and intuitive user interface

Filmora

Versatile video editor suitable for both beginners and professional content creators, with plenty of advanced features and an intuitive design

macOS

A new macOS that welcomes the arrival of Apple Silicon and offers better integration with mobile platforms, along with fresh visuals and a host of other features

Big Sur Cache Cleaner

User-friendly and intuitive macOS application that makes system maintenance, optimization, tuning and cleaning a lot simpler and faster

AppCleaner

Simple to use macOS utility designed to help you to quickly and properly uninstall any application with a just a flick of your mouse

Alfred

An easy to use productivity application for the macOS that helps you save time by speeding up your searches, on the web or on your Mac

Amphetamine

Straightforward app that integrates itself into the OS X status bar to give you quick access and control over your Mac's energy saver settings

Hidden Bar

Hide menu bar items and avoid clutter without removing the icons altogether, using this impressively straightforward and lightweight app

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Filmora

Filmora
macOS
Big Sur Cache Cleaner
AppCleaner
Alfred
Amphetamine
Hidden Bar
Aerial
Keka
Rectangle
The Unarchiver
Microsoft Remote Desktop
Keysmith
Mimestream
VLC Media Player

essentials

Step Seq 2.0

Have fun composing music from your Dashboard

Mac OS X 10.0 or later (PPC & Intel)

DashboardDock 1.0

A widget that brings the Dock into your Dashboard

Mac OS X (PPC & Intel)

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

Mac 0S X 10.4.8 or later

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

Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later (PPC & Intel)

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.

Mac OS X 10.0 or later (PPC & Intel)

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

Macs have a lot of unique applications out of the box. One of these is called Dashboard, which is an application that basically goes over your desktop and displays widgets. These widgets can serve all kinds of purposes, from being a useful and convenient, quick calculator to a widget that displays The Simpsons quotes (known as HomerQuotes, now discontinued). By default, there are only four widgets that appear on your Dashboard. Adding more of these widgets is certainly not difficult, and can serve to improve productivity or offset stress.

First, you want to click on the Dashboard icon. If you’ve got no idea what that is, you can see it highlighted in the image above.

Press the button with the + at the bottom left of the Dashboard screen.

A selection of other widgets will appear from the bottom of the screen. These are widgets you can pick from and add by default. In order to download and install more other ones, click Manage Widgets.

When the Manage Widgets dialog box pops up, click the More Widgets button at the bottom.

This should prompt your default browser to take you to the Dashboard Widgets website. There are a huge amount of perfectly compatible widgets on this website. In this tutorial, I’ll be downloading the InterfaceLift Wallpaper widget.

Scroll down the website until you reach the Widget Browser. In the categories, select Just For Fun, then InterfaceLift Wallpapers. Click the Download button on the right.

Go into your Downloads folder, or find the recently downloaded InterfaceLiftWallpapers1.0.zip folder in your Downloads stack. Click it to extract it.

The file should be extracted, with the Dashboard icon next to it. Simply double click it to run.

Dashboard will confirm that you want to install the InterfaceLift widget. Click Install to finalize the installation.

This widget will appear on your Dashboard. Use the left and right arrows at the bottom of the widget to navigate between pictures. If you find one you love, click on the picture and it will take you to the InterfaceLift website, where you can download the image and set it as your wallpaper.

Installing new widgets isn’t as hard as it seems! Neither is customizing your desktop, learning iCal shortcuts, or installing new fonts on your Mac. Have fun!