Published by Arno Appenzeller on 2015-05-02
What is Glimpse? Glimpse for Mac is an app that allows users to use any webpage as a widget in the Notification Center or the Menu Bar of OSX. Users can quickly check their favorite news sites, browse websites without opening a browser, and see if their long-awaited product is finally on preorder. The app allows users to add any page to Glimpse, choose the size of the widget, and scroll to the area they want to see. Glimpse remembers the position and allows users to switch between multiple pages in the widget.
1. 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.
2. - Choose if your webpage widget is interactive or is static and only refresh at a certain refresh interval.
3. Glimpse for Mac lets you use every webpage as widget in the Notification Center or the Menu Bar of OSX.
4. 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.
5. Scroll to the area you want to see in your widget and choose how large the widget should be for this.
6. 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.
7. So that you don’t need to wait every time you open the page in your widget.
8. - When adding you can scroll and zoom to a certain area of the page.
9. You are able to manage multiple pages in your widget - switch between them by pressing the arrow buttons.
10. Add any page to Glimpse by pressing the „+“-Button and enter the adress.
11. For non-interactive pages you can choose a certain interval for refresh.
12. Liked Glimpse? here are 5 Utilities apps like Webpage to PDF; Web2Pics - Webpage Screenshots; Webpageshot Pro; Glimpse - Webpages for your Watch and Notification Center; Copy Web - copy and edit content from webpage;
Or follow the guide below to use on PC:
Select Windows version:
Install Glimpse - Webpage Widgets app on your Windows in 4 steps below:
Download a Compatible APK for PC
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For Windows 11, check if there's a native Glimpse Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:
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Download on Android: Download Android
- Add a page to a Notification Center Widget and a Menu Bar Item
- Scroll and zoom to a certain area of the page when adding, and Glimpse remembers the position
- Choose a refresh interval for static pages
- Toggle between desktop and mobile webpages
- Choose if the webpage widget is interactive or static and only refreshes at a certain interval
- Many more options and features.
- Provides quick access to designated web pages through a menu at the top right of the screen.
- Useful for keeping web documents easily accessible during workflow.
- Can be used for accessing home controls.
- Cannot scroll up and down a document with the trackpad, only directional buttons are available.
- Directional buttons can become unresponsive at times.
- The page constantly rescrolls to the top after reopening the notification center.
It’s good but needs some work
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