Canvas

Describe the widget you wish existed.

Canvas builds small, personal apps for your Mac desktop—use one from the community, or make something entirely yours.

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macOS 14+ · Free for 3 widgets

Codex Builder

From a prompt to the desktop

Type → Build → assemble → a live glance settles on your Mac.

Compose
Studio · New widget

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macOS 14+

Free up to 3 widgets · Pro $5 lifetime for more.

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

Useful. Oddly specific. Yours.

Pick something ready-made or change every detail. These are examples, not the edges of what Canvas can do.

Canvas Builder

Don’t configure it. Describe it.

Builder turns your request into a working widget, shows what it is doing, and leaves every part open for another edit.

Canvas Studio Listening
You

Make a calm network widget for my apartment. Show who’s home on Wi-Fi, with tiny green status dots and latency.

Canvas

Understanding the glance

Connecting local network status

Shaping a soft glass card

Ready on your desktop

Live preview
Network WatchHome LAN
MacBook Pro4 ms
Phone11 ms
Studio NAS

A library shaped by everyone

Make it for yourself. Share it when it works.

You can build privately, publish something useful, or simply tell us what should exist. There is room here for makers and non-makers.

01

Create it

Describe the exact widget you need. Builder gives you a starting point you can keep refining.

See how Builder works
02

Publish it

Share a widget others would love. Keep credit, add a helpful description, and improve it over time.

Community publishing · coming next
03

Request it

Something missing or broken? Send the idea. We’ll use the best requests to shape what Canvas builds next.

Tell us what you need

App of the Week · 001

Network Watch

A calm answer to a nerdy question: what is happening on my home network right now?

  • See which devices are home
  • Spot connection trouble at a glance
  • Restyle it to match your desktop
Built from a community request
Network WatchHome LAN
MacBook Pro4 ms
Phone11 ms
Studio NAS

Start with something that feels like you

Choose your desktop vibe.

Two starter widgets, picked for the way you want your desktop to feel. You can change everything later.

Your first two
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What should Canvas make next?

If it doesn’t exist—or doesn’t work—tell us.

Describe the small app you keep wishing for. We read every request, and one community idea can become the next App of the Week.

You don’t need to know how to build it. A rough idea, an annoying problem, or a link to something you check every day is enough.