Übersicht
Übersicht is a macOS desktop widget app that runs commands and shows live information on your desktop using customizable HTML and JavaScript widgets.
What is Übersicht?
Übersicht is a native macOS desktop widget app from Felix Hageloh that helps users place live information directly on the desktop. It is designed for people who want at-a-glance system stats, calendars, weather, development data, or other custom views without opening a full app window. Widgets can run shell commands, display the results visually, and update on a schedule, which makes the app especially useful for personalized dashboards and developer-focused setups. Widgets are written with web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and JSX, so users can customize existing widgets or build their own. Übersicht also supports AppleScript actions for managing widgets and includes a large ecosystem of community-made widgets. Most users install it as a desktop customization and lightweight monitoring tool for Mac.
Key features
- Show live desktop widgets with data from shell commands
- Display information in custom layouts such as text, tables, charts, and graphs
- Build or edit widgets with HTML, JavaScript, and JSX
- Refresh widget data automatically on a schedule
- Customize widget placement and styling for different screen sizes
- Manage and refresh widgets through AppleScript
- Use community-made widgets for system stats, calendars, weather, and more
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Übersicht is a legitimate desktop widget tool for macOS. It can run shell commands inside widgets, which is central to how it works, so the main practical risk comes from the widgets you install or write rather than from the app itself. Community widgets may access local system information, network services, or files if their code is designed to do so. Use widgets from sources you trust, review any widget code before installing it if possible, and remove widgets you no longer use.
Recommendation: Keep Übersicht if you actively use desktop widgets or custom desktop dashboards on your Mac. If you do not use it anymore, you can remove it without affecting macOS itself, but any widgets and desktop displays managed through it will stop working.
Common paths
/Applications/Übersicht.app~/Library/Application Support/Übersicht~/Library/Application Support/tracesOf.Uebersicht~/Library/Preferences/tracesOf.Uebersicht.plist
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Übersicht~/Library/Application Support/tracesOf.Uebersicht
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/tracesOf.Uebersicht.plist
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