A Mac calendar widget that lives on your wallpaper

You shouldn't have to open an app to find out when your next meeting is. Orbl puts a mac calendar widget on your desktop, right on the wallpaper behind your windows, so your next event and your tasks are there the moment you glance down.

Meetings and a next-event countdown

The meetings & tasks widget reads your calendar and surfaces what's coming. Instead of a wall of month-grid noise, it focuses on the thing you actually need — your next event and a live countdown to it. Glance at the wallpaper and you know whether you have forty minutes or four to wrap up what you're doing.

Like every Orbl widget, you can set it always-on, tuck it behind the reveal shortcut (default ⌃⌥⌘A), or size it small, medium or large to fit your layout.

Apple Reminders, on the wallpaper

The same widget brings in Apple Reminders, so your to-dos sit alongside your schedule rather than in a separate app you forget to check. Add event countdowns for the dates you care about — a launch, a deadline, a trip — and watch them tick down on the desktop you already look at.

This pairs naturally with the focus and rhythm tracker: your schedule on one side, the shape of your working day on the other.

Titles optional, for privacy

Calendars can be personal. Orbl lets you show event titles or hide them, so a screen-shared desktop reveals "next event in 25 minutes" without broadcasting what that event is. It's a small toggle that makes a desktop calendar safe to leave visible in any room or call.

And because this is Orbl, the underlying stance is 100% local. There's no account and no server in the loop — calendar and reminders access is requested lazily, only when you turn the widget on, and the data stays on your Mac. If that matters to you, see the privacy-first Mac dashboard page.

This is a Premium feature

Meetings & tasks — the calendar, Apple Reminders and event countdowns — is part of Orbl Premium. The core wallpaper dashboard and most built-in widgets are free forever, but putting your schedule on the desktop is one of the Premium additions. Premium is a one-time purchase, never a subscription.

Light enough to leave running

A calendar widget shouldn't slow your Mac down. Orbl idles near 0% CPU, stays under 100 MB of memory, and runs an adaptive 8–12fps ambience that pauses when you step away — so your next-meeting countdown costs you nothing in battery.

Never miss the start of a meeting again

See how it fits with the rest of your layout in every Mac desktop widget Orbl offers. When you're ready, Orbl Premium unlocks meetings, tasks and every live integration in a single one-time purchase. Download Orbl and upgrade.