Planned Release Date: September 2026

About This Software

Your desktop, alive.

Dashboard Engine turns your wallpaper into a living, interactive dashboard. It renders straight onto the desktop — behind your icons, under your windows — so the information you care about is always there: the time, your system's pulse, the weather, what's next on your calendar. It thinks, it speaks, and it can act on your machine.

INSTALL A PACK. OR BUILD YOUR OWN.

A "pack" is a complete look: wallpaper + layout + personality + voice. Ships with eight hand-built packs across wildly different moods — a sci-fi command HUD, a warm cozy hearth, minimal monochrome, anime spring, kawaii pastel, gothic noir, retro vaporwave, and neon cyberpunk. Subscribe to more from the community, or make your own with a guided builder or the full editor — no coding required.

LIVING BACKGROUNDS

• Video wallpapers — bring any scene to life

• Layered parallax — depth that follows your cursor

• WebGL effects — ripple, sway, drift, pulse, shimmer and cursor-reactive shaders, painted onto any region with masks

• A particle studio — start from embers, dust, snow, petals, rain or sparkles, then design your own

• Breathing character rigs — layered art that sways and follows your cursor

• A day-night cycle and timeline — palettes that shift from dawn to dusk to night, and widgets you animate over time

REAL, USEFUL COMPONENTS

• Clocks — analog, digital, sci-fi reactor rings, themeable ring-clock

• Live system monitors — CPU, per-core load, memory, disk, battery, uptime

• Weather, a calendar planner with reminders, and a Pomodoro focus timer

• An app launcher that pins and opens your programs right from the wallpaper

• A per-app volume mixer and live desktop notifications

• Now-playing from any media player, plus a system-audio visualizer

• A photo gallery, and sandboxed custom HTML modules for designers

IT SPEAKS. NEURAL HD VOICES.

Dashboard Engine ships with a natural neural voice for English, and downloads more on demand — Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, with male and female options for English, Spanish, and French. Tune rate, warmth, and expressiveness into a voice profile and share it on the Workshop. (Voice profiles are just settings — never a recording.)

A LOCAL AI ASSISTANT

Run a language model right on your own machine — with free tools like Ollama or LM Studio — and your dashboard gets a voice-enabled assistant with a personality you choose. It stays entirely local: no cloud service, no account, no API key, and nothing sent off your PC.

SHARE IT ON THE WORKSHOP

Publish your packs and voice profiles to the Steam Workshop, and subscribe to what the community makes. Everything you install is sandboxed and safe.

A GOOD CITIZEN ON YOUR PC

Built to run all day. Dashboard Engine automatically pauses when you launch a full-screen game or app, throttles on battery, and caps its own frame rate — so it stays gorgeous without getting in your way.

SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE.

The interface is fully localized in English, Spanish, French, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, and Korean.

Windows 10/11. Your desktop will never look the same.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Dashboard Engine uses AI only at runtime, on your own device, and bundles no pre-generated AI content.

On-device neural text-to-speech (installed by default): the app includes neural TTS voices (MeloTTS and Kokoro) that synthesize spoken audio from text locally on your PC. An English voice is bundled and installed by default; other languages download on demand. These voices produce speech at runtime — for the assistant's replies, spoken system alerts, and voice previews. They are used purely as speech output: a "voice profile" is a small set of tuning settings that reference a licensed base voice, and the app stores or uploads no voice recordings of any kind.

Optional AI assistant (off by default): if you turn it on, you connect it to a language model you run locally on your own machine or local network (for example Ollama or LM Studio). Your typed messages are sent to that local model to generate conversational replies in real time, which can be read aloud by the on-device TTS above. There is no cloud AI service, account, or API key — nothing leaves your PC.

All AI output is generated live from your own input and your own local models, so it is not authored or reviewed by the developer. No AI-generated content is pre-created or bundled with the app.