A living notch for Windows and Mac

New in 0.1.7 · Better Japanese in 0.1.15 · Japanese readings add-on in 0.1.20

Read along in Korean, Japanese and Chinese

Like Apple Music's Show Pronunciation, each word of a lyric line gets its reading in Latin letters, set small underneath: the syllables for Korean, romaji for Japanese and pinyin with tone marks for Chinese. Japanese kanji are read with Windows' own reading analyzer. On PCs without Windows' Japanese data, kana lines read right away and the Music page offers Japanese readings, a 3.8 MB add-on that reads every kanji line. Since 0.1.15 it reads closer to how the words are sung: numbers with their counters (二人 futari, 一歩 ippo), は as "wa" after every word (心には kokoro ni wa), and words like 愛おしい and 失くす. Turn it off in Settings or the tray menu.

New in 0.1.17 · An add-on

Prayer times, for your kab/kota

Today's times as Kemenag RI publishes them for your kab/kota, the next prayer and how long until it, and the qibla. Windows' location finds the nearest of Kemenag's 517 places and checks again when your laptop travels, or you type your city. The point stays on your PC: it only picks the place.

In the ten minutes before each prayer the island counts down, and when it's time it says so, with a short tone, the adzan recorded at Masjidil Haram, or nothing. Checked against Kemenag's 2026 schedule: 98.2% of 227,367 times to the minute, none more than a minute off. Makkah, Madinah and Jeddah use Umm al-Qura.

New in 0.1.8

Phone drop: files from your phone, onto the Shelf

Open the Shelf, click Phone and scan the QR code with your phone's camera. Pick photos or files, tap Send, and the island asks before anything arrives. It works with iPhone and Android over your own Wi-Fi: nothing to install on the phone, and nothing goes through the internet. The phone can save what's on your Shelf too.

New in 0.1.11 · Redone in 0.1.17 · On the Mac in 0.1.19

System: your PC at a glance

CPU, GPU, memory, drives, network and battery in rings and charts: each core's load with performance and efficiency cores apart, the graphics card's engines and memory, memory pressure and what fills memory, read, write, download and upload speeds, and the processes using the most. Since 0.1.17 it reads Windows' own kernel counters and keeps the last minute while the page is closed, so the charts are full the moment it opens. Since 0.1.20 that minute rests while your PC is locked, the screen is off or battery saver is on. No driver, no admin rights, and nothing leaves your PC. On a Mac it reads macOS's own counters the way Stats does, and rests while the screen is asleep or the Mac is locked.

New in 0.1.18 · Peeks instead of staying in 0.1.20

Show over games: FPS, GPU and CPU

While a game fills the screen in borderless full-screen, the island becomes a small readout: frames per second, the graphics card's load and temperature, and the CPU's load. It shows for a few seconds when the game comes to the front, when the frame rate drops sharply, and whenever you press Alt+Shift+F, then gets out of the way: any window over a borderless game makes Windows combine the two before they reach the screen, which costs about a frame, so with the island gone the game's frames go straight to the screen again. Switch it on in System › Games, or right-click the island › In full-screen apps › Show FPS, GPU and CPU over games.

Frames are counted the way Intel's PresentMon and Xbox Game Bar count them, from Windows' own log of each frame a game shows. Nothing is loaded into the game, so anti-cheat has nothing to see. DirectX 9 to 12, Vulkan and OpenGL. The first time, Windows asks once for an admin OK, as Game Bar's FPS counter does, and FPS shows from your next sign-in. Over a full-screen app, Glass draws smoked glass instead of copying the screen.