readout·now on macOS

A heads-up overlay for your whole desktop

readout floats a glanceable layer over any game or app — controller battery, what's playing, live performance, a custom crosshair, system vitals — then gets out of your way. Windows and macOS. Endlessly extensible.

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Windows 11 · macOS · Linux soon

readout's now-playing widget glanceable over a game

glanceable over your game — never alt-tab to check what's playing again

Everything worth knowing, on the glass

A set of widgets that read out what matters and stay out of your way — click-through while idle, there the instant you need them.

Now playing, on the glass

Album art, transport controls, a spectrum visualizer, and a flippable hi-fi card — with bit-perfect FLAC details. Your media keys keep working, even over a fullscreen game.

readout's now-playing flip card on Windows

See your machine in real time

FPS, frame time, CPU, GPU, VRAM, RAM, per-core load and I/O as a live dashboard — know exactly how your rig is holding up, mid-game.

readout's live performance dashboard

Never get caught on a dead pad

DualSense, Xbox, and Switch battery and charging at a glance, with a live input visualizer and per-controller lightbar, rumble, and naming.

readout's controller battery cards on macOS

A crosshair for any game

Drop a pixel-perfect crosshair dead-centre on any title — shapes, colours, outlines, presets and share codes. Works even where the game won't let you have one.

readout's custom crosshair over Battlefield

Tune the sound, system-wide

A 10-band parametric equaliser with a preamp and saveable presets, applied to everything you hear — not just one app.

readout's equaliser and music player on macOS

Native on every machine, in any theme

The same overlay and your same layout on Windows 11 and macOS — and it follows your system's light or dark mode. Linux is on the way.

readout on Windows, light mode
Windows · Light
readout on Windows, dark mode
Windows · Dark
readout on macOS, light mode
macOS · Light
readout on macOS, dark mode
macOS · Dark

See it in action

Real captures across both platforms — click any shot to zoom in.

>_ extensions

Make it yours — then make it anything

readout isn't a fixed set of widgets, it's a surface. Drop in community extensions or build your own with web tech — a clock, a weather tile, a now-playing visualizer, a stream dashboard. Each one runs sandboxed and permission-gated, so the overlay stays fast and safe no matter what you install.

Read the SDK docs
One overlay, every machine
Native on Windows 11 and macOS, with the same modules and your same layout.
Built to disappear
Transparent, click-through, and always on top — part of the OS, not a popup fighting for attention.
Yours to arrange
Pin, drag, and snap widgets anywhere. Bind a hotkey and the whole overlay is a keystroke away.

Get readout

A glanceable overlay for your whole desktop. One purchase, Windows and macOS, free updates.

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