Tell
Mac widgets, made fun.
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Will G

Tell - Mac widgets, made fun.

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Native macOS app that transforms system stats into interactive 3D objects. Monitor network speed, CPU usage, battery, and more through smooth, animated visuals that live on your desktop. Designed to feel fast, minimal, and alive - not like traditional widgets. More collections, animated objects, and new system modules for deeper insights are already in development and coming soon

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Will G
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Hey everyone - I’m the maker of Tell. I’ve always been into 3D design and interactive visuals, and for the longest time I wished my desktop felt a bit more… alive. Everything felt flat, static, and honestly a bit boring. I wanted something that looked and felt cool, but was also actually useful day-to-day. So I built Tell - a way to turn system data like CPU, network, and battery into interactive 3D objects that just sit on your desktop and move with you. This is just the beginning. I’m already working on new object collections, themes, and more expressive ways to visualize different parts of your system. I want this to feel less like “widgets” and more like a living layer on your Mac. Would genuinely love your feedback - what you like, what you don’t, and what you’d want to see next 🙏
Saul Fleischman

Congrats on the launch! This is such a fresh take on system monitoring - the 3D object approach is genuinely delightful. I'm curious about performance impact: since these are animated visualizations running on the desktop, how optimized is Tell to avoid becoming a resource hog itself? Do you have any benchmarks on CPU/memory usage?

Will G
Maker

@osakasaul Appreciate it Saul, means a lot 🙏

Performance was something I focused on a lot while building this. It’s designed to stay lightweight - it’s not constantly doing heavy work, just checking system stats at intervals and updating the visuals smoothly.

In normal use CPU and memory stay pretty minimal, and if it’s hidden or not active on the desktop it’s basically idle.

Still refining and optimizing it as I go, but the goal is for it to feel smooth without becoming part of the problem it’s visualising.

Germán Merlo

Hehehe love this kind of widgets that makes our work funnier! It's a matter of enjoying the journey as well. Wish you all the best Will

Will G
Maker

@german_merlo1 Thank you sir! Not all the boring things to look at should be boring!