Vale
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Your Windows, with a notch.

Free and open source, for Windows 11.

Download for Windows
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hartono0297/vale/main/install.ps1 | iex

One hover, fourteen pages.

  1. Calendar Your day from Google Calendar, with a day and a week view.
  2. Pomodoro Focus sessions with breaks, right under the notch.
  3. Reminders Small things at the right time, repeated if you like.
  4. Notes Quick notes that stay put.
  5. Music Whatever is playing, with the cover and synced lyrics.
  6. Mixer A volume slider for every app.
  7. Clipboard Everything you copied, searchable, on your PC.
  8. Notifications The toasts you missed, kept in one list.
  9. File shelf Drop files on it now, drag them out later.
  10. System CPU, memory and disks at a glance, and a cleaner.
  11. Devices Eject flash drives and disks safely.
  12. CLI A small terminal in the notch.
  13. Susun Window layouts, picked and placed.
  14. Shortcuts Your own tiles: apps, pages, sites.

Things other notches don't do.

Every card below is live. Try them.

The cat dances to your music

It nods to the bass of whatever is playing, and the EQ bars follow the real audio.

It types while Claude works

When Claude Code, a CLI task or Mole is running, the cat gets a laptop. When it is done, one click takes you back to the session.

It peeks with two eyes

Over a full window, the notch shrinks to the cat's eyes while your pointer is near, and they follow you. Move into the picture.

Susun puts windows in place

Pick a layout, click a window for each tile, and they snap. Saved layouts come back on a hotkey.

Draw right on the screen

PrtSc freezes the screen, the selection snaps to windows, and you draw on it in place. Draw in the picture, then Copy.

Select any text on this page and press Ctrl + C. Watch the notch at the top.

Every copy, a preview

Copy anything and the notch shows what you copied for three seconds. The history stays on your PC.

Install

Download the app, or paste the line below in PowerShell. No admin rights needed.

Download vale.exe

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hartono0297/vale/main/install.ps1 | iex
Update, uninstall and details

Run the same line again to update. The installer checks the SHA-256, installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Vale and adds a Start Menu shortcut. For Windows 11 x64, with an MIT licence, in English and Indonesian.

Uninstall

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hartono0297/vale/main/uninstall.ps1 | iex

Uninstall and delete Vale's data

This variant also deletes the data Vale keeps on your PC.

$env:DI_PURGE = '1'; irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hartono0297/vale/main/uninstall.ps1 | iex

Google Calendar

Connecting Google Calendar is optional. You sign in on Google's own page, and your data goes only between your PC and Google. Vale never deletes events.

How Vale uses Google Calendar

You sign in in your browser, on Google's own page, using OAuth with PKCE. While you sign in, Vale listens on 127.0.0.1 on your PC for Google's reply, and only during the login. Release builds use Vale's own OAuth client. If you enter your own Client ID in Settings > Integrations, yours is used instead.

Vale lists your calendars and events, creates new events in your primary calendar, and edits existing ones. It never deletes events. Read-only, recurring and multi-day events cannot be edited. While connected, it fetches your events again every 10 minutes.

Data goes only between your PC and Google. Vale has no server in between.

The two scopes

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.calendarlist.readonly
Reads the list of your calendars, so Vale can show them and their colours.
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events
Reads your events, creates events in your primary calendar and edits existing ones. It never deletes them.

Disconnecting

Disconnect in Settings > Integrations. That deletes the saved token and nothing else, so events Vale already cached stay on your PC until you delete them. To revoke Vale's access on Google's side, go to myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Read the privacy policy

Privacy in short

Vale has no server of its own, no account, and no telemetry or analytics. Release builds check GitHub for a new version about once a day, and you can turn that off.

Read the full privacy policy

Everything that can leave your PC
  • The update check. On by default. About once a day, release builds ask the GitHub API for the latest release, with a User-Agent: Vale/<version> header. Turn it off with Check for updates automatically in Settings > About. When you click Update, Vale downloads vale.exe and vale.exe.sha256 from the GitHub release and checks the SHA-256.
  • Lyrics from LRCLIB. Off by default. When you turn it on, Vale sends the song title, the artist and the duration, never the album.
  • Google Calendar. Only after you connect it.
  • Web search. Vale opens google.com/search in your default browser only when you pick that result.
  • Links. They open in your browser when you click them.
  • The installer. It downloads Vale from GitHub.

Album covers are not downloaded. They come from Windows' media session.