News widget for Windows
Headlines on your dashboard, pulled from NewsAPI. Choose how many you want and how often they refresh, show thumbnails and sources or keep it to a compact list of titles. Clicking through opens in your real browser rather than a cramped in-app view.
Free · Windows 10 and 11 · No account required
The real News widget, running live. Drag it around.
What News is good for
The everyday jobs this widget was built to handle.
Skim headlines without opening a news site and losing twenty minutes
Keep a small, fixed number of stories visible
Refresh on your schedule rather than an infinite feed's
Every News setting
7 options, set per widget - so two copies of News on the same dashboard can behave completely differently. Highlighted values are the defaults.
Show thumbnails
Show source
Show description
Headlines count
Advanced
Refresh interval
minutes
Compact mode
Open in browser
Getting News 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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