Dynamic Island for Windows

A fluid, living overlay inspired by Apple's Dynamic Island, bringing a beautiful, highly-responsive UI to your Windows desktop. Built natively with hardware-accelerated Direct2D rendering for a buttery-smooth 60 FPS experience.

🚀 Modules & Dashboards

The Dynamic Island intelligently expands to display context-aware dashboards. You can easily navigate between different views using your mouse scroll wheel.

Module	Description	Preview
Media Player	Shows live album art, track details, audio waveforms, and full playback controls.
Calendar	A monthly grid that always fits its rows, with today marked in the accent colour.
Weather	Real-time weather stats powered by wttr.in, including wind speed, humidity, and "feels like" temperature.
Hardware Monitor	CPU, RAM, GPU, disk and live network throughput, with load bars that turn amber past 75% and red past 90%.
Game Overlay	Real-time FPS, CPU, GPU, RAM and disk, sized to whichever metrics you enable.
Idle View	A minimal dashboard with your battery status, digital clock, and sleek pagination dots.
Camera Privacy	Shows a green dot when an app is actively using your webcam.
Mic Privacy	Shows an orange dot when an app is actively using your microphone.

✨ Core Features

• Hardware Privacy Indicators: A pulsing orange dot appears when your microphone is active, and a green dot when your camera is in use. Rate-limited polling ensures absolutely no CPU drain.
• High-Res Clipboard & Notifications: Instantly see what you copied or your latest Windows notifications, featuring crisp, high-fidelity 64px app icons extracted directly from system executables.
• 360Hz+ Dynamic Fluid Animations: Ultra-smooth resizing and splitting with native support for high refresh rate monitors (up to 360Hz/500Hz+) and zero idle CPU drain.
• Eight Curated Themes: Obsidian, Graphite, Slate, Nord, Evergreen, Espresso, Plum and a light Porcelain, all switchable from the right-click menu's Theme submenu — or dial in your exact hex colors.
• Clean Flat Material: Surfaces are built from soft downward depth shading, a drop shadow, and an accent wash tinted live from your album art. No rim lighting, no glass highlights, no outlined cards — nothing traces a bright line along an edge.
• Real Blur & Acrylic Backdrop: Optionally paint genuine Windows blur or frosted acrylic behind the island so your desktop shows through it, exactly like the system's own surfaces.
• Translucent Backgrounds: Hex colors accept an alpha channel (#RRGGBBAA), so you can make the island see-through while keeping text and icons perfectly crisp.
• Your Language: The island's own labels follow your Windows display language across 12 languages, or you can pick one explicitly.
• File Tray: Drag any file onto the island to park it on a shelf, then click to open it. Files are only referenced, never copied or moved.
• Typography & Clock Control: Scale all island text independently of the island's size, choose 12- or 24-hour time, show seconds, and set a custom date pattern — including CJK forms like yyyy年MM月dd日.

⚙️ Usage & Settings

• Hover & Scroll: Hover over the island to seamlessly expand it. Use your mouse scroll wheel to swipe between the Media, Calendar, Weather, Hardware Monitor, and File Tray tabs.
• File Tray: Enable the File Tray module, then drag files onto the island. It jumps to the shelf to confirm the drop. Click a row to open that file; right-click the island to clear the shelf.
• Right-Click Menu: Right-click the island to access Theme presets, Transparency settings, and to pin the island open.
• ⚠️ Right-click choices are per-session: The right-click menu is a quick way to try things out, not a place to configure the mod. Theme, shape style (Pill / Notch / Windows 11) and pin open are all re-applied from your Windhawk settings whenever the mod restarts — so a reboot, a mod update, or toggling the mod off and on will discard them. Anything you want to keep, set in the Mod Settings tab instead. (Transparency and Expand-on-hover do persist, but the settings tab is still the reliable place for them.)
• Windhawk Settings: Visit the Mod Settings tab to change the island's Position, Size Scale, Refresh Rate (Target FPS), Animation Style (Smooth/Default/Bouncy/Snappy), Animation Speed, and toggle specific modules. You can also perfectly align the island using the Offset X and Offset Y settings, and select exactly which monitor the island should appear on (including a "Follow Mouse" mode!).
• Notifications: Windows must allow apps to read notifications: turn on Settings > Privacy & security > Notifications > "Let apps access your notifications". Without that permission Windows denies the listener and the module stays silent. Nothing needs to be added to the process inclusion list; the island runs in its own process and reads notifications from there.
• Quick Hide/Show: Right-click the island and choose "Hide Island" to collapse it completely — CPU usage drops to ~0% while hidden since the mod fully parks its render thread. Bring it back instantly with the configurable hotkey (default Ctrl+Alt+D, changeable in the Shortcuts settings tab). Because a hidden island can't be right-clicked, the hotkey is the only way back once hidden — if you turn the hotkey off while hidden, re-enable it (or disable the mod) from Windhawk's settings.

📝 Feedback & Credits

Feedback / Support / Bug Reports

• Please use Windhawk Mods Issues or dynamic-island-for-windows issues to report bugs, request features, or share feedback.
• Clear descriptions, screenshots, or steps to reproduce help improve fixes and updates.
• Suggestions for UI/UX or new integrations are always welcome.

Credits

• Sarthak Singh (sarthakaksh) @GitHub: Major feature overhaul including the right-click focus timer, hover clock, robust media controls, zero-CPU instant hide shortcut, Bluetooth battery integration, image clipboard thumbnails, and full-screen autohide fixes.
• ciizerr @GitHub: Improved the UI by refining layout alignment, fixing dashboard scaling, and enhancing calendar and weather module integration.
• ChrisSch-dev @GitHub: Added album title support, word wrapping for weather descriptions, sleep resume fixes, and various performance/movement stability improvements.
• thevioletto @GitHub: Added custom font support, Windows Do Not Disturb integration and status alerts, improved album art color sampling, reorganized settings, and addressed various UI/media edge cases.

🤝 Contributing

We love community contributions! To ensure high-quality updates, please follow these rules:

1. Fork & Branch: Fork the repository and apply your feature or fix.
2. Respect Existing Features: Do not outright remove or break other people's features unless fully explained why in your PR. You are highly encouraged to refine and improve existing features!
3. Credit Yourself: After completing your feature, add your name and a short summary of your contribution to the Credits section in both the Mod UI here and the GitHub README.md!