A sleek, hardware-accelerated Dynamic Notch for Windows with live background blur, media controls, multi-glass finishes, and desktop notifications.

Venu brings a Dynamic Island-style experience to Windows, transforming the unused space around the top of your desktop into a useful, contextual information surface. It displays the time, controls media, shows notifications, tracks your focus, presents reminders, monitors AI coding tool usage, and alerts you from developer tools without requiring you to switch windows. Venu is designed to feel native, lightweight, and unobtrusive, running locally with hardware-accelerated rendering and no account or cloud service dependency.

Dynamic Notch / Desktop HUD: A compact panel that expands when needed and stays out of the way otherwise, featuring smooth expansion, configurable placement, multiple information slides, and mouse wheel navigation.

Media Controls: Integrates with Windows System Media Transport Controls to display current track, artist, artwork, and playback controls.

Notifications: Acts as a lightweight notification hub with live desktop alerts, unread indicators, a notification center, and local webhook support.

AI Agent and Developer Notifications: Serves as a desktop HUD for developer workflows, allowing external tools and scripts to send instant notifications to Venu for events like task completion or build status.

Edge Marquee: Displays scrolling text on screen edges for reminders, quotes, or status information, with customizable speed, direction, and appearance.

Glass and Surface Themes: Offers various visual treatments including Dark, Light, Frosted Glass, Transparent Glass, Blurred, and Windows Fluent Acrylic, with adaptive colors based on the desktop wallpaper.

Modern Color Editor: Provides a precision color editor with a 2D canvas, hue slider, alpha slider, and input for HEX, RGB, and HSV values.

System Tray and Windows Integration: Runs quietly in the background with system tray support, quick controls, and native Windows integration.

Privacy First: Designed as a local-first application with no account, telemetry, or cloud dependency.

Built with Rust, Venu targets Windows 10 and Windows 11, focusing on performance and responsive visual rendering using technologies like egui, eframe, Direct2D, and DirectWrite.