About DeskDash.
A Windows app that turns your desktop background into a live dashboard, built by one developer.
What it is
DeskDash puts live widgets on your desktop wallpaper: clocks, system stats, weather, media controls, notes, and whatever else people build. They sit behind your normal windows, so they are there when you clear your screen and out of the way when you do not. You arrange, resize and restyle them until the desktop looks like something you chose rather than something you were given.
Widgets come from a built-in marketplace and install from inside the app. They are all free. Before one runs you see exactly what it wants access to, and you decide what to grant.
The marketplace also has taskbars: full replacements for the Windows taskbar, from a floating dock to a side rail, that carry your pinned and open apps, start menu and notification area. One runs at a time, and the Windows one comes back with one click.
Why the site is desktop-dashboard.com
The app is called DeskDash. The website lives at desktop-dashboard.com. Those are the same project: the domain says what the thing does, and the name is what it goes by. If you came looking for DeskDash, you are in the right place.
Who builds it
One developer, working on it directly. There is no team behind a support address and no ticket queue: when you send a message, it reaches the person who wrote the code.
It is a one-time purchase. No subscription, no ads, no upsell inside the app, and every marketplace widget and taskbar is included.
Open by design
A DeskDash widget is a folder of plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no build step. Everything the first-party widgets can do is available to anyone through the same documented API, and the developer docs cover the whole surface. If a widget you want does not exist, you can write it, and you can publish it to the marketplace for everyone else.
Where it is going
Windows 10 and 11 first, with Mac and Linux planned later. The app keeps itself up to date, and every release is written up on the changelog. If you want something it does not do yet, say so: the roadmap is mostly made of things people asked for.