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Dashboard tiles: read-only status on the panel

Updated October 5, 2026

A tile shows information on the panel instead of being a button — a meter, now-playing, battery, a timer, your next meeting, the clipboard, or CI and OBS status. Tiles are read-only: they display what's happening on the Mac, they don't trigger an action when you look at them.

The local tiles

These read only what's already on your Mac, nothing to set up:

  • Meter — CPU, memory or disk, as a live bar.
  • Now playing — the current track or video.
  • Battery — charge and whether it's charging.
  • Timer — a countdown you start and stop with a tap.

The private tiles

These read something more personal, and the sensitive part never leaves your Mac:

  • Next meeting — your next calendar event and a Join button. The meeting link stays on the Mac; tapping Join opens it there. You can hide event titles so only "Meeting" shows on the iPad.
  • Clipboard — your recent copies, so you can paste one to the Mac from the panel. The history lives on the Mac in memory only (never written to disk), skips anything a password manager marked private, and the panel sends back only which item to paste, never the text.

The integration tiles

These read your own connected services (see Integrations):

  • CI build and Pull requests — from your own read-only GitHub token.
  • OBS record, OBS levels and OBS on-air — from OBS on your local network.

Every tile is read-only and opt-in: a tile reads its source only while it's actually on a deck.

Dashboard tiles are part of the paid plan. See what's free and what's paid.

Questions & answers

Can I press a tile?
A tile's job is to show information, not to fire an action. Use a button for that; a tile keeps you informed at a glance.
Where does a tile's data come from?
From the Mac — the thing it reports on. For GitHub and OBS tiles you connect those with your own credentials.

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