Your taskbar,
out of the way.
A floating strip of app bubbles that hides at the edge of the screen and slides back when you reach for it. Six materials, eighteen themes, a spinning-vinyl mini player, and an audio visualiser that lives on your wallpaper.
- Free
- 187 MB
- Windows 10 1903+
- 64-bit
- Nothing else to install
move your pointer to the right edge
Six materials
The bubbles are made of something
Each material is a real optical model, not a colour swap: refractive rims, horizon banding, thin-film interference. Any of them works with any theme.
Glass
Lit top edge, gradient sheen
Liquid Glass
Clear centre, refractive rim
Chrome
Turned metal, drifting highlights
Iridescent
Soap-bubble pearl, hues drift
Gloss
Aqua button, hard highlight cut
Venom
Ferrofluid spines that crawl
On the desktop
Everything, in one place
The dock, the mini player and the visualiser, running together. Each bubble below is wearing a different material.
Layouts
Three ways to wear it
Switch in settings at any time. Every material and theme works with all three.
Floating
Round bubbles sitting off the edge, each casting its own shadow. The default.
Edge tabs
Flush to the screen and rounded only on the inward side, so they read as cut into the edge.
Icons
No container at all. Just the app icons over your wallpaper, as light as it goes.
What it does
Built for getting out of the way
Auto-hiding dock
Slides off-screen until your pointer touches the edge. Click a bubble to focus an app, click again to minimise it, and cycle windows on apps that have several.
Three dock styles
Floating pills that sit off the edge, half-pills welded flush to it, or bare icons with no box that magnify under the cursor.
Mini player
Right-click your music app for a spinning vinyl with the cover art as its label, a seekable bar, and transport controls. Drag it anywhere; it stays put.
Audio visualiser
A single smooth curve drawn on nothing: no panel, no border. Lock it and it sits on the desktop behind every window, click-through and out of the way.
Hides the taskbar properly
Made invisible, not disabled, so the Windows key still opens Start and tray notifications still fire. Restored on exit, sign-out and uninstall.
Eighteen themes
Each one carries its whole look: material, glow, sparkles, opacity. Pick one and it lands finished rather than needing ten minutes of sliders.
Privacy
It never talks to anything
There is no server for your data to go to, because there is no server. Point a firewall at it and you will see silence.
That is the app. This page loads one third-party thing — the Ko-fi donation widget — and nothing else.
- Network
- No connections. No telemetry, no analytics, no accounts, no update check.
- On disk
- One settings file. Readable JSON in your AppData folder. Nothing else.
- Audio
- Output only. Read for the visualiser and discarded, never recorded and never the microphone.
- Uninstall
- Leaves nothing. Taskbar restored, settings removed, startup entry gone.
Download
One file. Nothing to install first.
The .NET runtime is bundled, so there are no prerequisites. Download, run, done.
187 MB · Windows 10 1903 or newer, 64-bit. Windows will warn on first run, because the app is not code-signed yet. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
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