Live Data widget for Windows
Connect a service once: GitHub, Stripe, Plausible or any URL with your own headers. The connection fetches a sample and shows the response as a tree, so you click the values you want instead of typing JSON paths, and one poll feeds every widget pointed at it. Each value can be a plain number, a delta since the last fetch, a progress bar toward a goal, a gauge, a sparkline or a full trend chart over time, and seven formatters read the raw value properly: a unix timestamp as a date, a byte count as GB, a signed coordinate with its hemisphere, a code as a coloured status. Any list in the response becomes a bar, line or area chart with two dropdowns. Everything previews live as you configure it, and threshold notifications tell you when a value crosses a line you set.
Free · Windows 10 and 11 · No account required
The real Live Data widget, running live. Drag it around.
What Live Data is good for
The everyday jobs this widget was built to handle.
Put an internal dashboard number on your desktop
Show net revenue when the API only sends revenue and expenses
Track a live position as a marker on a world map
Chart a list from an API without building a dashboard
Turn a single API value into a trend by watching it over time
Get notified when a value crosses a threshold
Values the API never sent are values too. A derived field is built from dropdowns rather than a formula: pick an operation, pick the fields it reads, and the result joins the catalogue as an ordinary value. Revenue minus expenses becomes net revenue, used over capacity becomes a percentage you can put on a gauge, cents times 0.01 becomes dollars, and a latitude and a longitude pair into a single field drawn as a marker on the world map. Derived values collect history like any other, so net revenue can be a sparkline without ever being fetched.
Every Live Data setting
9 options, set per widget - so two copies of Live Data on the same dashboard can behave completely differently. Highlighted values are the defaults.
Show last updated
Show refresh button
Pulse on change
Display mode
Grid columns
Advanced
Error display
Cache duration
Any number · starts at 0
Single value index
Which data point to show in single-value mode
Any number · starts at 0
Enable threshold notifications
Getting Live Data on your desktop
- 01
Install
Download and run the installer. No account, no sign-in.
- 02
Add the widget
Hit Add Widget, or press Ctrl+K and search for it by name.
- 03
Make it yours
Drag it where you want, resize it, and set the options below.
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Live Data is one of 83 widgets
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