United StatesGlimpse for Mac lets you use every webpage as widget in the Notification Center or the Menu Bar of OSX. Check out your favourite news sites with a swipe (or a click when you don’t have a trackpad), see if your long awaited product is finally on preorder, check some stats quickly or just browse websites quickly without opening a browser. Add any page to Glimpse by pressing the „+“-Button and enter the adress. Scroll to the area you want to see in your widget and choose how large the widget should be for this. Glimpse remembers this and scrolls always to the right area of your choice. You can also choose if you want the page in the Menu Bar or the Notification or why not in both? Your webpage can also be interactive that means you can scroll in the notification center by using your keyboard or in the Menu Bar popup with your trackpad/mouse. For non-interactive pages you can choose a certain interval for refresh. So that you don’t need to wait every time you open the page in your widget. If you want to open the page quickly in Safari to see the whole thing just click on a button and the page opens in your browser. You are able to manage multiple pages in your widget - switch between them by pressing the arrow buttons. Features: - Add a page to a Notification Center Widget and a Menu Bar Item - When adding you can scroll and zoom to a certain area of the page. Glimpse keeps this position, so that you are always in the right place. - Choose a refresh interval for static pages. - Toggle between desktop and mobile webpages. Sometimes the mobile webpage offers the better layout for your widgets. - Choose if your webpage widget is interactive or is static and only refresh at a certain refresh interval. - Many more options and features.
Just burnt 2 dollars
It didn't work with the Citibike web page I tried to turn into a widget. App is great in theory, just what I need. I think the code is outdated.
United StatesFails to add widget in Big Sur, no support
Would give it zero stars if possible. Hasn't been updated in a VERY long time. Run as far as you can from this.
United StatesHas issues, not updated for years
Not only does it do what it's supposed to do, but also, unfortunately, seems to be the only app that does what it does. In the days of Dashboard, one could just use Safari to create a widget that showed a webpage. It worked fine then. Dashboard is now finally gone. Glimpse *barely* brings that Dashbard-Safari crossover functionality to the Today widgets. Glimpse's setting don't really work. I set up the "glimpse" to a specific spot on the webpage (middle-ish), but every time the widget refreshes, we're back at the top of the page. I have it set to *never* refresh, but it refreshes *every time* I call out the Notfication Center, forcing me to scroll back to the spot below. You could set it to not be interactive, which does normally prevents it from refreshing. The problem is that it needs to be refreshed sometimes. Again, Goes back to top on every refresh, but you can't scroll if it is not interactive. In other words, the app has issues that make it difficult to use as advertised. Not worth even the small amount I paid for this. It's unfortunate that this is the only app of its kind.
United StatesDid exactly what I wanted
It places a menu at the top right of the screen with the web pages I designate. I’m using it to get quick access to my home controls.
United StatesIt’s good but needs some work
I really like the app alot but it needs further development. Really useful for keeping web documents easily accessible during my workflow. However, my problems with it are: 1. That you can’t scroll up and down a document with the track pad, you can only use directional buttons but sometimes even that becomes unresponsive. 2. The page constantly rescrolls to the top after reopening the notification center. 3.. Even if you untick refresh into “never refresh”, the page still refreshes. It becomes inconvenient when trying to access a page that requires a login. 4. It needs a zoom in and zoom out button
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