Desktop widgets made of light and glass.

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/6mHm50rCgt8

Lumen puts 51 glass widgets on your Mac desktop — clocks, weather, reminders, focus timers, system stats, and more — and the glass isn't a trick: it reads your actual wallpaper and tunes every widget to match it. Pick the corner your widgets live in and they match that corner. 55 built-in 5K wallpapers, or import your own.

Details

Most widgets sit on your wallpaper. Lumen's belong to it.

Every one of Lumen's 51 widgets is a pane of glass — luminous numerals, a single glowing accent, and a surface that carries your actual wallpaper's colors. Change the wallpaper and every widget re-tunes itself. Keep your widgets in one corner? Tell Lumen which corner on a little picture of your monitor, and the glass matches the colors that are actually behind it.

The look is yours to tune. Ten accent colors or any custom color. Eight numeral styles, from a featherweight face to a hairline, a serif, a sci-fi face, and a dot-matrix throwback. Three glass surfaces — Glass, Smoke for bright wallpapers, Frost with dark ink for light setups. Dial the glow from full halo to crisp. One click applies it to every widget already on your desktop.

The widgets do real work, too. Tap a reminder to check it off. Start a focus session and watch it burn down live on your desktop. Skip tracks from the Remote. Log a glass of water. Follow three stocks. Watch CPU, memory, GPU and storage in a single pane. Click the weather, calendar or reminders widgets and they open Apple's own apps.

It ships with 55 wallpapers made for the aesthetic — deep blues, auroras, golds, earth tones, neons, and light options, all 5K — and applying one takes a click, no System Settings. Or import your own images and they join the pack permanently, glass matching included.

Everything runs on your Mac. No account, no subscription, no data leaving your machine.

Feature list

Glass that matches your desktop

- Widgets read your actual wallpaper and carry its colors, like real glass

- Corner matching: pick the quadrant your widgets live in on a monitor

  mockup, and the glass samples exactly that region — or the whole wallpaper

- Wallpapers you apply or import re-tune every widget instantly

51 widgets across 12 categories

- Clocks: analog and digital orbs, a numeral dial, world clock, dual time

  zone, stacked and column layouts (8 designs)

- Weather: conditions, 6-day forecast, rain radar, sun column with minimal

  outline condition icons, air quality, sunrise-to-sunset arc, moon phase

- Reminders and Calendar: list, next-up countdown, floating stack, agenda —

  tap to complete reminders

- Focus: tap-to-start focus timer and stopwatch that tick live, weekly

  habits, countdown to any date

- Health: steps and water with tap-to-log

- Media: Now Playing with transport controls, plus an Apple Music remote

- System: CPU, memory, GPU and storage in one pane; network; storage

- Extras: stock ticker with a glowing sparkline, three-stock watchlist,

  daily quote, year progress, Mail inbox count

- Notes: quick notes that live on your desktop

Make it yours

- Ten accent colors, any custom color, or follow the system accent

- Eight numeral styles: Featherweight, Rounded, Mono, Serif, Dot Matrix,

  Condensed, Orbit, Hairline

- Three glass surfaces: Glass, Smoke, Frost

- Glow control: regular, light, or none

- One click restyles every widget on the desktop; per-widget overrides too

55 wallpapers — and yours

- 5K gradients across eight families, from near-black to light

- Preview and apply from inside the app; the box closes itself

- Import your own images — they join the list permanently and the glass

  matches them with no permission dialogs

Built for macOS

- Native app for macOS 26, universal for Apple Silicon and Intel

- 12/24-hour time and °F/°C follow your system, or set them per widget

- Per-widget options: cities, stock symbols, countdown dates, glass override

- Local-first: your data stays on your Mac

Requirements

Requires macOS 26 or later. Universal app for Apple Silicon and Intel.

Permissions

Lumen only asks for access when a widget needs it: Reminders and Calendar for the agenda widgets, location for local weather, Music for the remote, and Mail (off by default) for the inbox count. Each one is a standard macOS permission prompt started from a Connect button in the app, and everything keeps working without them — widgets you don't connect simply show sample data.