Lumabar

lumabar replaces the Windows taskbar with a dock on the top or bottom edge of the screen that holds your apps and more than 80 widgets. Widgets include now playing music, a calendar, weather, system stats such as CPU and battery, to-do lists and notes, and usage limits for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok, along with payment services such as Stripe and Polar, so you can check things without opening each app.

The privacy model is a selling point: it needs no account, runs no server of its own and collects no telemetry, and every widget contacts only the service it displays, straight from your computer. Keys you paste stay local, AI limit tiles read your existing sign-in read-only, and removing a widget stops its requests. The only thing lumabar itself contacts is the store that sold the license key.

lumabar costs $5.99 once, down from a listed $15.99, with every feature unlocked, free updates and a 14-day money-back guarantee. The site has a community showcase, feedback, docs, a changelog and a roadmap.