Windows has no place for what's happening right now. ZenithBar adds a floating island to the top of your screen: playback controls for any Windows media session, your next calendar events, pinned apps and sites, a file shelf you can drag straight into other apps, and a visual clipboard history. It opens on hover, disappears during full-screen games, and processes everything on-device — no account required to use it. One-time purchase with a 7-day trial, not a subscription.
I've spent years on Windows watching my attention get shredded by window switching. Pause a song → Spotify comes forward. Check when the next meeting is → calendar app takes the screen. Find something I copied twenty minutes ago → gone.
macOS users got the Dynamic Island treatment on the desktop. Windows never did.
So ZenithBar is a small island pinned to the top of the screen. Hover it and it expands: media controls for whatever Windows is playing, your next events, pinned apps and sites, a shelf you can drag files out of, and a clipboard history that remembers text, links, images and colors. Move the pointer away and it's gone. During full-screen games it hides itself entirely.
The part that took longest wasn't the features — it was making it feel like it belongs to Windows instead of sitting on top of it. Getting the hover timing right, making the island not steal focus from what you're typing in, deciding what stays visible when it's idle. Most of my rewrites were about restraint.
Everything stays on your machine. Calendar is read-only Google access, Drive backup is optional and you start it yourself, and nothing needs an account.
One honest note: this build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows will show a SmartScreen "Publisher: Unknown" warning. It's a reputation notice, not a detection — the SHA-256 is published on the site so you can verify what you downloaded. Signing is on the way.
What would you want on an island like this that isn't there yet?
About ZenithBar on Product Hunt
“The activity island Windows was missing”
ZenithBar launched on Product Hunt on July 28th, 2026 and earned 91 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #26 on the daily leaderboard. Windows has no place for what's happening right now. ZenithBar adds a floating island to the top of your screen: playback controls for any Windows media session, your next calendar events, pinned apps and sites, a file shelf you can drag straight into other apps, and a visual clipboard history. It opens on hover, disappears during full-screen games, and processes everything on-device — no account required to use it. One-time purchase with a 7-day trial, not a subscription.
On the analytics side, ZenithBar competes within Windows, Productivity and GitHub — topics that collectively have 712.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how ZenithBar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted ZenithBar?
ZenithBar was hunted by Henry Cauan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of ZenithBar including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Henry Cauan