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Lookout Station

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An always-on dashboard for the Mac and iPad: weather, calendar, scores, launches and your home lab, arranged on one screen.

Lookout Station on the Mac in the Obsidian theme: clock, London weather, a countdown, today's calendar, a monthly trend chart, a stock watchlist, a live Premier League score, reminders and the ISS globe

About the app

Lookout Station turns a Mac or an iPad into an always-on information display. Panic's Status Board did that beautifully until it was retired in 2016, and nothing quite took its place; Lookout is our go at a spiritual successor.

There are more than 130 panel types, from the everyday (clock, weather, calendar, reminders, RSS) to the specific: live scores and Formula 1, flight radar, rocket launches, stock watchlists, App Store Connect sales and your home lab's services. Press E and lay them out on a 24-column grid: drag one onto another to swap them, pull a corner to resize, and undo anything with ⌘Z. Nothing to configure in a text file.

It's a native app, not a web page in a window. On the Mac each dashboard opens in its own window, so one can sit full screen on a second display while another stays on your desk, and every action is in the command palette.

Built to stay on

Kiosk mode fills the screen, keeps it awake and can move through the pages on a timer. Fleet Commander runs several screens from one: put your other Macs and iPads in Station Mode, give each a dashboard, and go live together.

Themes

Over 65 of them: wireframes, paper and glass, the editor palettes you already know (Nord, Dracula, Catppuccin, Solarized, Tokyo Night) and experience themes with GPU-drawn CRT, holographic and VHS effects. Theme Studio, on the Mac, duplicates any of them for you to change colour by colour.

No ads and no tracking: your dashboards stay on your devices, and sync through your own iCloud.

Screenshots

  • A sports page: a live Arsenal v Chelsea scoreboard, the match timeline, fixtures, the Premier League table and the Formula 1 drivers' standings
    Scores, timelines, tables and Formula 1 on one page.
  • A space page: the ISS on a 3D globe, the next rocket launches with a countdown, NASA's Deep Space Network, the ISS's position, near-Earth asteroids and the day's earthquakes
    The ISS, launches, the Deep Space Network and the week's asteroids.
  • A home lab dashboard: Proxmox, Portainer, Kubernetes, TrueNAS, Scrutiny, UniFi, Traefik, Speedtest Tracker, Plex, Sonarr and Radarr cards with live numbers
    Imported from a Homepage services.yaml, with every card filled in.
  • Edit mode on the desk dashboard, with the page settings sidebar on the left and the clock panel selected on the grid
    Press E to edit: drag panels, resize them, and set the page's colour and grid.
  • The desk dashboard in the Command Center experience theme: ice-blue HUD chrome on a dark grid
    Command Center, one of the experience themes.
  • Theme Studio, with the list of bundled themes on the left and a live preview of lists, grids and form controls
    Theme Studio: duplicate any theme and make it yours.