Feature
A Mac weather widget that lives on your wallpaper
Orbl is a mac weather widget on your desktop — clock, weather, a sunrise/sunset countdown and live air quality (AQI via Open-Meteo). Free, asked lazily.
Checking the weather usually means unlocking your phone or opening yet another app. Orbl is a mac weather widget that lives on your wallpaper, so the time, the forecast and the air outside are already there the moment you clear your screen.
Clock, weather and the sky's schedule
A few related widgets work together to make the desktop feel aware of the day:
- Clock & date — pinned bottom-left, always readable.
- Weather — your current conditions, right on the wallpaper.
- Sunrise/sunset countdown — how long until the next golden hour or dusk.
The palette of the whole wallpaper drifts with the time of day too — warm near sunrise, deep blue at night — so the weather widget sits inside an ambience that already matches the sky. It's part of what makes Orbl a good base for an aesthetic desktop setup.
Live air quality, no key required
The air quality widget shows live AQI for your location, pulled from Open-Meteo — so there's no API key to paste and nothing to configure. Glance at it before you open a window or head out for a run. Like everything in Orbl, calls go directly from your Mac to the provider; there's no server in between.
Free, and yours to arrange
The clock, weather, sunrise/sunset countdown and air quality are all part of the free built-in set — no purchase needed. Each one can be set always-on, tucked behind the reveal shortcut (default ⌃⌥⌘A), or sized small, medium or large. Let Orbl's fluid auto-grid lay them out, or drag them into your own order alongside every other Mac desktop widget.
Location asked lazily, and only locally
Weather and air quality need to know roughly where you are — so Orbl asks for location only when you turn those widgets on, never before. There's no account, no server storing your whereabouts, and no analytics. The request happens lazily, the moment you enable the feature, and the data is used right on your Mac to fetch your local conditions.
Calm and light all day
A weather widget shouldn't be the thing draining your battery. Orbl idles near 0% CPU, stays under 100 MB of memory, and runs an adaptive 8–12fps ambience — 12fps plugged in, 8fps on battery, paused when you step away.
Put the sky on your desktop
See how it ties into the rest of the experience in how the live wallpaper dashboard works. The weather and air-quality widgets are free forever; if you later want meetings, tasks and live integrations on the same wallpaper, that's Orbl Premium — a one-time purchase, never a subscription. Download Orbl and let your desktop tell you the weather.
Frequently asked questions
Are the weather and air quality widgets free or Premium?+
The clock, weather, sunrise/sunset countdown and air quality are all part of the free built-in set — no purchase needed.
Where does the weather and air quality data come from?+
Live air quality (AQI) is pulled from Open-Meteo, so there's no API key to paste and nothing to configure. Calls go directly from your Mac to the provider — there's no server in between.
Does Orbl track my location?+
Weather and air quality need to know roughly where you are, so Orbl asks for location only when you turn those widgets on, never before. There's no account and no server storing your whereabouts — the location is used right on your Mac to fetch your local conditions.
What exactly does the weather widget show?+
Your current conditions on the wallpaper, a clock & date pinned bottom-left, and a sunrise/sunset countdown showing how long until the next golden hour or dusk. The whole palette also drifts with the time of day.
Can I rearrange or resize these widgets?+
Yes. Each can be set always-on, tucked behind the reveal shortcut (default ⌃⌥⌘A), or sized small, medium or large. Let the fluid auto-grid lay them out or drag them into your own order.
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