NATIVE RUST · WINDOWS 10/11 · FREE BETA SOON

Your desktop, at a glance.

Live widgets rendered straight onto your wallpaper: clocks, weather, mail, cameras, your whole homelab. Behind your windows while you work, never stealing a click. It's there whenever you glance.

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glancedock.exe · one native process · zero servers

arrange once, glance forever: this is what GlanceDock feels like

68
widgets & counting
1
native Rust process
$9
founder price, locks forever
0
accounts, servers, telemetry
WHY GLANCEDOCK EXISTS

Built like a tool. Not like a service.

powershell · receipts ● running
PS> tasklist | findstr glance
glancedock.exe    1 native process
# rendering: Windows' own WebView2, shared.
# no bundled Chromium, no Electron.
# a loaded two-monitor desktop ≈ 400 MB,
# lighter than many single-window Electron apps.
One small Rust process on the WebView2 Windows already runs. A loaded two-monitor desktop lands around 400 MB, less than many Electron apps. Live cameras and video cost more; that part's honest.
Sharing your screen?

One keystroke hides mail, notes, and cameras: everything personal. Instantly.

Nothing to sign into

No account, no cloud, no telemetry. GlanceDock talks only to the services you configure: your mail server, your homelab, your weather. And to nothing else.

Secrets stay in the OS vault

Mail passwords, API tokens, camera credentials go straight to Windows Credential Manager, never a plain-text config. The layout file on disk is provably secret-free.

Your license is verified offline

Keys are checked on your machine. The app never phones home to activate. No server ever sees your key, and it keeps working whether or not we're around.

license ✓ valid · checked locally, 0 ms network
THE CATALOG

68 widgets. Three are yours free, forever.

68 shown · every widget tells you if it touches the network

  • Clock

    Local

    Big digital clock with the date.

  • World clock

    Local

    The time in any timezone, DST-correct.

  • Countdown

    Local

    Days and hours to a date, then counts up after.

  • Month calendar

    Local

    A quiet mini-month with today highlighted.

  • Moon & Night Sky

    Local

    Moon phase, rise/set, twilight and dark-sky windows, computed on-device.

  • Timer & Stopwatch

    Local

    A single countdown timer or lap stopwatch, driven from glance mode.

  • Mail (IMAP, multi-account)

    Internet

    Unread counts and latest-message previews across several IMAP accounts, with new-mail toasts.

  • Agenda (ICS calendars)

    Internet

    Today and tomorrow's meetings from ICS feeds, next meeting first, with a join button.

  • Tasks (Todoist)

    Internet

    Overdue and upcoming tasks, glance check-off, quick-add.

  • To-Do (local)

    Local

    A simple local checklist, checkable without entering edit mode.

  • todo.txt

    Local

    Read-only view of a todo.txt file: priorities, due dates, projects.

  • Sticky note

    Local

    A persistent note on your desktop.

  • Shared list

    Local

    One checklist mirrored across every instance, on every monitor.

  • JSON status card

    Local

    Renders any local JSON status file: the escape hatch for your own scripts.

  • Copy Shelf

    Local

    A curated shelf of one-click copyable snippets.

  • Pomodoro

    Local

    Focus timer in four looks, phase-end toast and chime, daily goal dots.

  • Focus Stats

    Local

    Your Pomodoro history: today, a trend chart, streak and best day.

  • Habits

    Local

    Tap-to-complete circles, streaks, and a month heatmap.

  • Medication Schedule

    Local

    Today's doses, log them, snooze reminders, and watch optional inventory.

  • Sourdough Starter

    Local

    Log feeds, ratios, and hydration; an estimated peak from your own history.

  • Camera wall

    LAN

    Live RTSP cameras: 1/2/4 tiles, cycling, and fullscreen.

  • YouTube

    Internet

    Ad-free video, Shorts, and playlists via yt-dlp, up to 1080p DASH.

  • YouTube Downloader

    Internet

    Queue video or audio-only downloads to a folder with live progress, resume, and cancel.

  • Video player

    Local

    Local video files and playlists, ratio-correct, full controls.

  • Photo Frame

    Local

    Local photo slideshow: file, list, or watched folder; fade, slide, Ken Burns.

  • Weather

    Internet

    Current conditions from Open-Meteo, with city search and no API key.

  • Air & Sun

    Internet

    Air quality, UV index, and a sunrise-to-sunset day arc.

  • RSS feed

    Internet

    A few quiet headlines from any feed.

  • Holidays

    Internet

    The next public holiday and countdown for any of 150+ countries.

  • Earthquakes

    Internet

    Recent quakes near you on a radar plot (USGS, keyless).

  • ISS Tracker

    Internet

    The Space Station live on a world map, orbit trail, and visible-pass predictions.

  • Lightning tracker

    Internet

    Live lightning strikes near you on a distance radar.

  • Daily Dose

    Internet

    A comic, a quote, or a dad joke. Your small daily lift.

  • Speedtest

    Internet

    On-demand download / upload / ping, run against Cloudflare.

  • Domain Watch

    Internet

    Expiry countdown for the domains you own.

  • Uptime Kuma

    LAN

    Up/down monitor counts and what's currently down.

  • Proxmox VE

    LAN

    Per-node CPU/RAM gauges, storage pools, and every VM/LXC across the cluster.

  • Unraid

    LAN

    Array capacity and health, per-disk usage/temps/SMART, CPU/RAM, dismissible notifications.

  • Tailscale

    Internet

    Devices online/offline in your tailnet, key-expiry warnings.

  • Home Assistant

    LAN

    Chosen entity states: temps, switches, sensors.

  • Ping monitor

    LAN

    TCP reachability and response times in five looks, with down-host toasts.

  • Cert Watch

    LAN

    SSL/TLS certificate expiry for your hosts, with days-left chips.

  • Docker

    LAN

    Container status across your Portainer environments, with optional controls.

  • MQTT Topic Scope

    LAN

    Read-only live values from selected LAN MQTT topics.

  • LAN Timekeeper

    LAN

    NTP offset, round trip, and jitter without changing your clock.

  • UniFi Network

    LAN

    WAN status, client counts, and device health from your UniFi controller.

  • System monitor

    Local

    CPU and RAM with a history sparkline.

  • GPU

    Local

    Utilization sparkline, VRAM bar, and temperature. NVIDIA-rich, with AMD/Intel fallback.

  • Disk usage

    Local

    Fill level for every drive.

  • Network throughput

    Local

    Live up/down per interface and a 60-second sparkline.

  • Battery & Power

    Local

    Charge, charging state, and runtime at a glance.

  • Now Playing

    Local

    Current Windows media with playback controls.

  • App Volume Mixer

    Local

    Output switching and per-app Windows audio controls.

  • Universal Converter

    Local

    Convert units across 18 quantity categories with standards-backed factors.

  • Text Tools

    Local

    JSON pretty-print & validate, Base64 encode/decode, right on the desktop.

  • Timestamp Converter

    Local

    Convert Unix, ISO 8601, and local date-times with DST-aware results.

  • ID Generator

    Local

    Generate UUIDs, ULIDs, and NanoIDs locally in one click.

  • Password Generator

    Local

    Strong passwords & diceware passphrases, one click, fully offline.

  • Checksum & Hash

    Local

    Verify local files and pasted text with modern and legacy checksums.

  • QR & Barcode Maker

    Local

    Generate QR codes and 1-D barcodes locally.

  • Image Toolbox

    Local

    Drop images to convert and shrink them to WebP/JPEG/PNG with an exact size preview.

  • Wi-Fi QR

    Local

    Let guests scan to join your Wi-Fi with no password to dictate.

  • Public IP / VPN guard

    Internet

    Your public IP, loud red when it stops matching your VPN prefix.

  • Brick Breaker

    Local

    A short-session arcade game: steer the paddle and clear the bricks.

  • Life Lab

    Local

    A Conway's Game of Life sandbox: draw cells, play, and watch.

  • Decision Spinner

    Local

    Flip a 3D coin, roll rattling dice, or spin a Wheel of Fortune, with sound.

  • D&D Dice

    Local

    Roll a configurable 3D polyhedral die for tabletop sessions.

  • Lights Out

    Local

    A fast local logic puzzle: turn every light off.

PRICING

Pay once. Like software used to be.

Three widgets free forever. One payment unlocks the rest, no subscription, ever.

Free
Freeforever
  • 3 widgets, forever
  • No account, no telemetry
  • Yours. Full stop.
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BETA PRICE, LOCKS FOREVER
Founder Best value
Standard price: $19 $19 at 1.0
$9one-time
  • Every widget, every future major
  • Beta price, kept after launch
  • License verified offline
Become a founder for $9 available when the public beta opens
Standard
$19one-time
  • All widgets, the 1.x major
  • After the beta ends
  • License verified offline
Coming at 1.0
FAQ

Frequently asked

Something else? The docs cover setup, licensing, and the offline license in depth.

Is it Windows only?

Yes. GlanceDock is built natively for Windows 10/11 and uses WebView2 (which ships with current Windows).

Does it phone home?

No. No telemetry, no account, no cloud. It only contacts the services you set up (your mail server, your homelab, YouTube, etc.).

Where are my passwords stored?

In Windows Credential Manager, the OS's own encrypted vault, never in a plain-text config file. The layout file on disk is provably secret-free.

Will widgets get in the way of my work?

No. They're click-through by default; your clicks reach the desktop. Only the specific control you hover becomes interactive.

Is the YouTube widget really ad-free?

It plays the raw video/audio streams directly, which carry no injected ads. It uses the widely-used yt-dlp tool, which you can update in one click when YouTube changes.

Multiple monitors?

Fully supported: a widget layer per display, and drag widgets between them.

Is it free?

Yes, free forever for up to 3 widget instances: everything included, no account, no telemetry. To unlock every widget there is a single one-time payment: during the public beta a Founder license is $9, and it stays price-locked forever, covering every 1.x release and future major versions at that same $9. From version 1.0 the Standard license is $19. Keys are verified offline on your machine. The app never phones home to activate.

Your information, at a glance.

Free for three widgets. No account. Installed in under a minute.

Download for Windows Founder beta · $9