Canvas
Canvas builds small, personal apps for your Mac desktop—use one from the community, or make something entirely yours.
Small apps, made personal
The most useful app is often the one nobody has made yet. Canvas turns a sentence into a live part of your desktop—shaped around your data, your taste, and your day.
Start with an idea
Every example answers one unusually precise question using public data, a local calculation, or a setting you provide once.
The ones you never close
Not a novelty for one afternoon. These widgets keep a small, living part of your world visible every day—and become more useful as they learn your rhythm.
Lives beside the work for months, not minutes.
Aarav32 days · London
messageNiki18 days · birthday soon
callA relationship reminder without becoming a CRM.
A truer answer than a calendar full of white space.
“The first warm evening of the year. We stayed on the roof until the tea went cold.”
One forgotten fragment returns to the desktop each day.
Canvas Builder
Builder turns your request into a working widget, shows what it is doing, and leaves every part open for another edit.
Make a calm network widget for my apartment. Show who’s home on Wi-Fi, with tiny green status dots and latency.
Understanding the glance
Connecting local network status
Shaping a soft glass card
Ready on your desktop
A library shaped by everyone
You can build privately, publish something useful, or simply tell us what should exist. There is room here for makers and non-makers.
Describe the exact widget you need. Builder gives you a starting point you can keep refining.
See how Builder worksShare a widget others would love. Keep credit, add a helpful description, and improve it over time.
Community publishing · coming nextSomething missing or broken? Send the idea. We’ll use the best requests to shape what Canvas builds next.
Tell us what you needApp of the Week · 001
A calm answer to a nerdy question: what is happening on my home network right now?
Start with something that feels like you
Two starter widgets, picked for the way you want your desktop to feel. You can change everything later.
What should Canvas make next?
Describe the small app you keep wishing for. We read every request, and one community idea can become the next App of the Week.