Top 10 Most Useful XENEON EDGE Widgets in 2026

We like having album artwork and playback controls on the Edge without keeping a music app open on a main monitor. Our Music widget works with compatible Windows media players and has three looks: Classic, Pulse and Vinyl. We wanted it to feel simple, so we added familiar gestures that make it easy to move around without learning a whole new set of controls. That, along with choosing a look that suits your desk, is a big part of the appeal for $6.99.

For more access to your library, Sidekick for Apple Music and Sidekick for Spotify are also $6.99 each. Both give you more detailed controls, like browsing and searching for songs and choosing playlists, so it feels more like having your music account right on the Edge.

Other makers have their own take. Music Pro by FlowKits ($12) has artwork-based colors and several visualizers. StreamSpell’s Music Widget ($14) supports several services, while Now Playing by Scott Reed Development is free. They’re worth a look to see which controls and style you prefer.

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If you use Home Assistant, having your lights, thermostat and other device controls beside your PC is pretty convenient. Our Home Assistant Companion lets you choose supported devices and arrange their controls on the Edge.

You can move and resize cards, change names and icons, adjust colors and add custom actions. We like that it can be as small as a few lighting buttons or a larger panel with room temperature, media controls and device status.

That flexibility is what makes it useful to us: the controls you actually reach for can fit around the rest of your widgets. At $19.99, it’s one of the pricier picks here, so it makes the most sense if Home Assistant is already part of your day.

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Flow for Gmail by FlowKits brings your inbox, Google Calendar and next-meeting countdown onto the Edge, with multiple accounts and a Google Meet join button. We like being able to check what needs attention without leaving Gmail open on another screen.

FlowKits spent hundreds of dollars on independent security testing for this. Its published documentation confirms the app is Google-verified and passed a CASA Tier 2 security assessment through TAC Security.

We went down this rabbit hole ourselves, but decided the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. So honestly? Hats off to FlowKits. He put a lot of time and care into this, and took a financial risk to make it happen. It passes our eye test. Definitely check it out.

Gmail Connect by Qaem is another option. We haven’t evaluated its security, so we can’t comment on that aspect of it.

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There’s something satisfying about browsing game covers on the Edge. Our Steam Library widget shows your installed games and lets you launch them through Steam, with a poster grid or showcase view, favorites, hidden games and search.

We like the mix of looks and usefulness here. The artwork suits a gaming setup, while download progress and speed give you something helpful to glance at while waiting for an update.

Respawn Companion, our desktop hub for connecting and managing supported Respawn Icons widgets, detects your installed games. An optional Steam API key adds extra profile and library information. For us, the appeal is simply having a little place to browse what to play next without opening the full library on a main screen.

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Sidekick for Outlook & Teams keeps your calendar, inbox and supported Teams conversations on the Edge. There are different calendar views, mail folders, read and unread controls, supported meeting invitations and Teams status, with multiple Microsoft accounts and a choice of panels.

We like having that workday information together without spreading it across our monitors. It also runs through Respawn Companion, our desktop hub for connecting and managing supported Respawn Icons widgets. If you already use the hub, adding Sidekick for Outlook & Teams means one less companion app to keep running.

Flow for Outlook & Teams by FlowKits ($20) is honestly pretty much just as good. Its next-meeting countdown, join button, daily timeline and focus controls are worth a look. For us, sharing the hub with our other widgets is the appeal of Sidekick for Outlook & Teams at $14.99.

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