# Add the MoreRoom widget to your desktop

> Put MoreRoom’s widget on your desktop or in Notification Center: free space, the 30-day trend, the forecast and what you can free up.

- URL: https://moreroom.app/support/widget
- Topic: Storage Weather & alerts
- Updated: 2026-10-17
- Publisher: MoreRoom (Yando Pte. Ltd.) — https://moreroom.app

## In short

- Open MoreRoom once first, so the widget has data to show.
- Control-click (right-click) the desktop, choose Edit Widgets…, search for MoreRoom, then drag the small or medium widget onto the desktop.
- The widget shows free space, the trend and what you can free up. Click it to open Storage Weather.

## How to add the MoreRoom widget

1. **Open MoreRoom once.** Open MoreRoom from Applications. It takes its first measurement right away and shares it with the widget.
2. **Open the widget gallery.** Control-click an empty spot of the desktop and choose Edit Widgets…. You can also click the date and time in the menu bar, scroll down and click Edit Widgets….
3. **Find MoreRoom.** Type MoreRoom in the search field of the gallery, or click MoreRoom in the list of apps.
4. **Add it.** Choose the small or the medium size, then drag the widget onto the desktop, or click it to add it to Notification Center. Click Done.

## What the widget shows

- **Small**: available space and how full the disk is, with the forecast (“Full in ~*n* days” or “Stable”).
- **Medium**: the same, plus the free space over the last 30 days, what the last scan found that **can be freed**, and the folder that grew the most this week (“+*size* this week”).

Click the widget to open **Storage Weather** in MoreRoom.

## How fresh is it?

MoreRoom updates the widget after each measurement — every 30 minutes while MoreRoom is running — and only when something it shows has changed. To keep it up to date with the window closed, turn on **Open at login, in the menu bar** (see [Menu bar and open at login](https://moreroom.app/support/menu-bar-and-login)).

The “can be freed” figure comes from your last scan: it appears after your first scan and changes when you scan again.

## Move or remove it

- To move it, drag it to another place on the desktop.
- To remove it, Control-click the widget and choose **Remove Widget**.
- On the desktop, macOS may dim widgets when windows are in front: that’s a macOS setting, in **System Settings › Desktop & Dock › Widgets**.

## The widget says “Open MoreRoom to start”

It has no data yet. Open MoreRoom once. If it still says so, see [The widget shows no data](https://moreroom.app/support/widget-no-data).

## Related articles

- [Storage Weather: a forecast for your disk](https://moreroom.app/support/storage-weather.md)
- [The MoreRoom widget shows no data or is out of date](https://moreroom.app/support/widget-no-data.md)
- [The menu bar item, and opening MoreRoom at login](https://moreroom.app/support/menu-bar-and-login.md)

## Still need help?

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