But, that’s in the future, and we are not there yet. And since the introduction of third-party custom widgets on iOS 14, you will get all those widgets on your Mac. The benefits of the Today View area is that apart from showing you the stock widgets, it also gives you an option to showcase third-party widgets.Īnd this feature is going to matter a lot more with upcoming macOS Big Sure and ARM Macs, as they will be able to run iPhone and iPad apps natively. The Today View is the same as its iOS counterpart, which means you can place widgets there. While Apple killed Dashboard with macOS Catalina, it also introduced a kind of replacement for it by launching the Today View area (access by swiping left to right from the right edge of Mac trackpad). If you are missing the Dashboard on macOS Catalina, try it out.ĭownload from App Store: $4.99 2. Also, it’s only available in the US Mac App Store.
The only drawback that I could find was the app crashed a few times on me. The Widgets app gives you a modernized Dashboard and that’s probably the highest praise that I can give to this app. So, not only you can see widgets in traditional black and white themes but also in other colors. Another thing that impressed me was the inclusion of multiple themes.
