The dynamic notch for Windows.
A native, hardware-accelerated desktop HUD for Windows 10 & 11. Contextual media controls, AI coding telemetry for Claude Code & Antigravity, desktop alerts, and edge marquees — zero cloud, zero telemetry.
Memory Footprint
~15 MB RAM
Rendering Engine
Direct2D & DirectWrite
Cloud Telemetry
0 Bytes Sent (Offline)
Platform Support
Windows 10 & 11
Interactive Architecture
Engineered for desktop flow.
Scroll or toggle through the slides to inspect how Venu morphs with fluid spring physics across each desktop state.
Compact Status Capsule
Unobtrusive when working. Expands with spring physics on hover.
Venu sits quietly at the top bezel, presenting digital time, current focus session, and active battery or system stats. Approaching the edge triggers immediate sub-pixel spring expansion.
Developer Telemetry
AI agent telemetry on your desktop.
Stop switching tabs or digging into terminal scrollback to check token burn and compaction thresholds. Venu natively tracks Claude Code, Antigravity, and OpenAI Codex.
Monitors active Claude 3.7 context window, compaction warnings, and session API expenditures directly on your desktop.
Receives proactive agent lifecycle notifications when subagents complete long-running tasks, test suites, or require user approval.
Refactoring components to production standard
Presents TPM/RPM quotas and automatic retry notifications when your scripts or autonomous agents hit OpenAI throughput ceilings.
Local Webhook Daemon
Connect your CLI, tests, or scripts in one line.
Venu runs a zero-latency daemon on 127.0.0.1:49152. Dispatch events from `cargo build`, CI test runners, or custom AI agents without external network dependencies.
# Send instant notification to Venu local daemon
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:49152/notify \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"title": "Build Succeeded",
"message": "target/release/venu.exe compiled in 3.8s",
"app": "Cargo"
}'System Integration
Capabilities engineered for Windows.
Built as a native citizen of the Windows desktop. Adapts to your monitors, wallpaper colors, and daily multitasking habits.
Venu samples the active Windows desktop wallpaper beneath the notch and automatically extracts dominant tones to tint the glass borders and specular highlights without manual tuning.
2D saturation and value canvas with exact HEX, RGB, and alpha sliders instead of the rigid default Windows picker.
Assign Venu to your primary display or any secondary monitor. Configure top or bottom placement with exact pixel offsets.
Run continuous reminders along the perimeter of your screen. Full Unicode support including Latin, Devanagari (Plus Jakarta Sans & Noto Sans Devanagari), CJK, and symbols.
Hover over the notch and scroll your mouse wheel to switch between Clock, Media, AI Agent, and Alerts slides.
Optionally launch on Windows sign-in via registry. Starts quietly in the system tray without opening settings windows.
Open-Source Architecture
Engineered in Rust. Zero telemetry.
Your desktop is where you work. Venu runs entirely on your local machine, stores preferences in plain JSON, and contains zero tracking code.
Architecture & Resource Telemetry
Comparative benchmark against standard webview-based overlays.
| Metric | Venu (Rust + Direct2D) | Typical Electron Overlay |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Footprint | ~14 - 18 MB RAM | 350 - 650 MB RAM |
| Idle CPU State | 0.0% (sleep state) | 1.5% - 4.0% continuous |
| Graphics Pipeline | Direct2D & DirectWrite | Chromium Compositor |
| Telemetry / Analytics | 0 Bytes Sent (Offline) | Continuous Telemetry |
| Local Config Format | %APPDATA%\venu\config.json | Opaque IndexedDB / LevelDB |
Permissive open-source license. Inspect the code, compile your own binaries, or write custom plugins in Rust.
No registration forms, no login gates, no subscriptions. Download and launch. The binary never needs internet access.
Maintained with craft by Nakul Srivastava. Contributions and pull requests are welcomed on GitHub.
Contribute on GitHub
Run `cargo fmt --check` and `cargo check` before pull requests
Distribution
Install Venu for Windows.
Choose between an automated per-user installer, zero-install portable binary, or compiling directly from Rust source.
Venu Setup Installer
Installs per-user into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Venu — no administrator rights needed.