Windows app · v0.4.2 · formerly Dynamic Island
A smooth, animated island at the top of your screen for music, notifications, charging and live activities, plus an optional dock for your apps. It shows what matters, then gets out of the way. Built natively for Windows, with spring physics running at your display's full refresh rate.
Live preview · tap a state, or hover the islandIdle
Features
Every image below is rendered by the app itself. These aren't mockups drawn after the fact.
Music
Album art on one side, bars on the other that follow the actual audio level and pick up their color from the album art. Hover for the full player with a progress bar and controls. It works with any player Windows knows about: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube in your browser, VLC and more.
New in 0.4 · Dock
An optional dock at the bottom of the screen: pinned and running apps, smooth magnification on hover, a Start button, Downloads and Recycle Bin, custom icons, and its own tray for background apps. It can hide the Windows taskbar while it runs and puts it back exactly as it was when you turn that off or quit.
New in 0.4 · Live activities
New in 0.4 · Liquid glass
Choose the classic black island or a glass one that blurs and tints whatever is behind it, with adaptive, accent or custom colours. The dock gets the same looks, so the two always match.
Notifications
Charging
Pick from four animations: Liquid fills the island to your battery level, Ring and Edge trace light around it, and Classic shows a bolt and a filling battery. Then it settles back.
Styles
Go with a floating pill, a notch hanging from the top edge, a thin line that springs into the island when you hover or something happens, or Hidden, invisible until then. While music plays, the line takes the album art's color and pulses with the sound. Switch styles from the right-click menu anytime.
App-aware
Settings
A calm, Windows 11-style settings app for the island and the dock, with a live preview over your own wallpaper: shape, glass and colour, size, behavior, activities, app rules and dock apps. Every change applies the moment you make it.
Quick menu
Settings, a style switcher, quick timers and quit, in a menu that opens neatly under the island and closes when you click away.
Motion
Every resize and transition runs on spring physics at your monitor's refresh rate, with blur-and-scale crossfades between states.
Unobtrusive
Hover for the time and battery. Clicks pass straight through everywhere outside the island, and it never takes focus or shows up in Alt+Tab.
Privacy & security
An app that sits on your desktop all day should never become a way in. Here's what Windsland does, and what it refuses to do.
No network
No telemetry, no update checks, no remote content. Everything stays on your PC.
Least privilege
It never asks for admin while running, and reads music and notification info read-only.
Hardened
It blocks DLL hijacking, refuses notification images from network shares (which can leak your login hash), and safely handles notification content and launch commands.
Clean install
Ordinary programs can't tamper with its files. Uninstalling removes everything, and can delete your settings too.
Verifiable
Confirm that your download is exactly the file that was built (see below).
No logging of content
Logs record app names and states only, never what your notifications say.
Install
Get Windsland-Setup.exe (46.5 MB). Everything it needs is included, so there's no .NET install.
Choose all users (recommended) or just you. Optionally have it start when you sign in, or add a desktop shortcut.
The island appears at the top of your main screen. Hover to open it, and right-click for Settings and styles.
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PowerShell: (Get-FileHash .\Windsland-Setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256).Hash
FAQ
Yes. Download it, install it and use it.
Any app that reports to Windows' media controls: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and other sites in Chrome or Edge, VLC, and more. If the volume flyout shows the song, the island will too.
No. It hides during fullscreen games and videos, clicks pass through everywhere around it, and you can set apps like your browser to show only a thin line until you hover.
Early builds aren't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen doesn't recognize the publisher. Compare the SHA-256 checksum above with your download, then choose More info → Run anyway.
It reads them from Windows to display them, and that's all. It never connects to the internet, and it never writes message content to its logs.
Settings → Apps → Installed apps → Windsland (Dynamic Island on older versions) → Uninstall. You'll be asked whether to remove your settings too.
It was called Dynamic Island until November 2026. "Dynamic Island" is Apple's name for a feature of the iPhone and a trademark of Apple Inc., so the app now has a name of its own. Windsland is an independent app from Hack Angel and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Apple. Same app, same developer, new name.