A living island for your Windows desktop.
Your music, apps, files and alerts in one glass capsule at the top of your screen — with Nova, a little companion who keeps you company.
Download for Windows · Microsoft Store · Free and open source (GPL v3)
A little companion who lives in your island. Nova keeps you company while you focus, welcomes you back, cheers your wins, and reminds you to drink water and rest your eyes.
Title, artwork and live waveforms of whatever is playing, plus a floating mini player in one click.
Prayer times with a heads-up before the adhan, plus dhikr, du'a and Qur'an verses in the KFGQPC Hafs script, as often as you choose.
Progress, speed and time left while you work, with IDM Nova — pause, resume or open a file in one click.
13 free themes in Settings → Themes, from liquid glass to pure black, sakura pink and pixel green. None of them makes Nova heavier, and the solid ones are even lighter.
Copy a link, a sum or a color and the island knows what to do with it. It also lets you know when an app turns on your mic or camera.
Turn on only what you need from one simple settings window. Vertical on the screen edge, hides in full screen, starts with Windows.
- Download Nova Island from the website, or get it from the Microsoft Store.
- Run it. With the direct download, Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" because the app is not code-signed yet — choose More info → Run anyway. The Store version doesn't show it.
- The island appears at the top of your screen. Press Ctrl + Alt + I to open it.
Requires Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit).
npm install
npm start # run it
npm run dist # build the installer into dist/Nova Island is free, with no ads and no tracking, and it always will be. If it makes your day a little better, you can buy us a coffee:
- Ko-fi (cards, PayPal): ko-fi.com/binamer
- InstaPay (Egypt): Send via InstaPay
Stars ⭐ and sharing it with a friend help a lot too.
Nova Island is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
Copyright © 2026 Nova Island by AmerTech.
The Qur'an font in fonts/ (KFGQPC HAFS Uthmanic Script by the King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex) is included unmodified under its own license — see fonts/KFGQPC-LICENSE.txt. It is not covered by the GPL.
The name "Nova Island" and its logo are not covered by the GPL; please use a different name for modified versions.