A Webstarted tool · macOS & Windows · Free beta

Your menu bar,
supercharged.

A lightweight app that lives in your menu bar on macOS or system tray on Windows. One click opens a popover that works like a hub — tasks, notes, timers, dev tools and dashboards, all organized in tabs. The little things you reach for all day, without opening another window.

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Open it Wfrom anywhere
Webstarted Toolbox — a menu-bar popover showing its tabbed widgets
Menu bar hubEvery widget, one click away
Fast & nativeBuilt with Tauri — light, instant
Stays out of the wayHides on blur, or pin it open 📌
Yours to shapeLight/dark, translucent, drag to reorder
The idea

One icon. A whole toolbox.

Toolbox sits in your menu bar or system tray and opens into a popover packed with widgets, organized in tabs. Turn on only the ones you use, drag them to reorder, and group them into spaces like “Personal” or “Business”. It hides itself when it loses focus — or pin it to keep it open.

  • One icon, always within reach
  • A popover instead of yet another window
  • Widgets grouped into clean tabs & spaces
In action

Real widgets, real work.

A few of them, live in the popover.

The widgets

One popover, a whole toolbox.

Enable only what you use. More land here as we build them.

Productivity

Tasks

A fast to-do list, with an option to hide what’s done.

Checklists

Reusable control lists from templates, with Markdown export.

Quick Note

A scratchpad with autosave — pop it into its own window.

World Clocks

Several cities’ time at once, with automatic daylight saving.

Habit Tracker

Daily habits with a streak — the last 7 days or an 8-week contribution grid. 100% local.

Job Tracker

Your job applications across five stages, with a Kanban board and an OS alarm before every interview. Desktop only.

Project Boards

Kanban boards that stay on your machine: columns you define, cards with labels, checklist and a due date that reaches you as an OS notification. Imports a Trello export. Desktop only.

Courses

Micro-courses at one 5-minute lesson a day, with quizzes, levels and a streak — subscribe to a channel or paste a single course link. Opens offline. Desktop only.

Teleprompter

Your script scrolls itself at the speed you read — set in words per minute, with mirror mode.

Presenter

A clock that knows your script: sections with their minutes, whether you are on time, ahead or behind, notes stamped with the minute they happened, and a summary when you finish. Sits in a corner above everything, full screen slides included. Desktop only.

Pencil

Draw on your screen while you present: underline, circle, cross out — over everything, your full screen slides included. Color, thickness, undo, Esc to leave. Nothing is saved. Desktop only.

Translator

18 languages with automatic detection — no API key, or plug in your own DeepL key.

Calendar

A simple monthly agenda: mark days and jot things down.

More than widgets

Built to live in your day.

The details that make it disappear into your workflow — quick to open, quick to hide, synced across machines, and the hub of the Webstarted tools ecosystem.

It also talks to agents: Toolbox runs a local MCP server so Claude can read and drive the widgets you allow it to — one widget at a time, and never your local scripts.

Agent control (MCP)A built-in MCP server: Claude can list your widgets and drive them. Opt-in, per widget.
Private sessionOpen a widget in a throwaway window that writes nothing to disk.
Detach a widgetPop one out of the popover into its own always-on-top window.
Immersive fullscreenAmbient widgets fill the screen and the controls fade away until you move the mouse.
Global shortcutOpen it anywhere with a configurable hotkey (⌃⌥⌘W by default).
SpacesGroup widgets into spaces — “Personal”, “Business” — each with its own tabs.
iCloud syncBack up and restore your setup to move between machines.
Deep linksAutomate from terminal, Alfred or Shortcuts via ws-toolbox:// URLs.
Webstarted catalogDiscover and install other tools from the ecosystem, right in the app.
Plugin architectureNew widgets install right in the app as signed plugins — verified before they load, with the core left untouched.
Webstarted Toolbox — a menu-bar popover showing its tabbed widgets

Get Webstarted Toolbox

Free to use while in beta. macOS 12+ and Windows 10+.

Signed & notarized · 34 installable widgets · All tools