Rainmeter Skins: Transform Your Desktop with Stunning Designs

Windows offers a fair amount of customization, primarily through wallpaper changes and official or third-party Windows 10 themes. 

Fortunately, several programs enable users to fully customize their Windows desktops, with Rainmeter being one of the most popular. Rainmeter skins completely change the look of a device. 

macOS Monterey for Windows

If you like the Big Sur skin but want the macOS Monterey look on your Windows 11 PC, try this Rainmeter skin. 

It adds desktop widgets for different apps, and the font and design closely resemble macOS. You can have everything from a calendar to a music player and weather info on your desktop.

Sonder

Sonder skin is perfect for a minimalistic theme with a nature-inspired look. It uses green accents for the clock, calendar, weather, and CPU stats. 

Combined with TaskbarX for a centered transparent taskbar, this Rainmeter skin can enhance your home screen. Plus, it’s still actively developed, so new features should be coming soon.

LIM!T

LIM!T is for those who prefer a clean look with meaningful text. This Rainmeter skin displays information using large, clear fonts.

It fills the inside of the text with information, like showing minute numbers filling up steadily every 60 seconds. 

The skin shows the date and time, CPU and RAM usage, media playback status, and weather stats.

Before Dawn

Before Dawn is likely the most accessible Rainmeter skin to set up, it requires no tweaking. Just run it; it appears as an information-packed bar across your desktop. 

The skin displays time and date, shortcuts to frequently accessed programs and websites, subscribed RSS feeds, and the current temperature at your location.

ALIENS

The ALIENS skin perfectly shows how important wallpaper is to customization. It’s a well-designed Rainmeter skin that pairs perfectly with the accompanying Aliens wallpaper. 

The modules are customizable, including disk partition shortcuts and power status to network speeds and system time and date.

Spiderman

Who doesn’t love a Spiderman theme? This skin brings Spiderman-inspired icons to your desktop, complementing the included wallpaper (located in My Documents/Rainmeter/Skins/Spiderman). 

In the left-side menu, you’ll find essential stats like download and upload speeds disk and memory info.

Ageo

Ageo is a minimalistic Rainmeter skin that gives your desktop a material design feel. It features an excellent music player, date, time, weather widgets, and a running widget for motivational quotes. 

It also includes a dock similar to macOS and is fully customizable. I like the fact that it doesn’t slow down my i5 laptop. If you want to try it, check the link below.

I’m using a minimalist nature wallpaper with it (you should check it out).

Mond

Mond is my top Rainmeter skin because it matches perfectly with my wallpaper. I found the Neon Gas Station wallpaper on Reddit (you should check it out).

The Mond skin is highly customizable and lets you add many widgets to your desktop. 

However, Spotify integration doesn’t work immediately, so you must install a separate plugin.

You can find the plugin in the link below. Mond is minimalistic, lightweight, and doesn’t slow down your computer.

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 finally arrived on all major platforms after several delays. If you’re a game fan, this skin can give your desktop a similar vibe.

It provides essential desktop shortcuts, quick access to time and CPU info, download and upload speeds, and system info.

Frost Glass

Windows 11 has a slight mica effect in its UI, but is subtle. Some users prefer a more frosted look in their UI. 

The Frost Glass Rainmeter skin is an excellent choice for your style. It gives the entire UI a frosted glass appearance and adds a dock similar to macOS. You can also open a side panel to access your favorite apps.

ClockWorld

Many users on DeviantArt love ClockWorld, a stylish Rainmeter skin. It offers features like desktop widgets, a music player, quotes, a calendar, and apps.

The newly designed icons are refreshing and visually appealing. If you want a colorful Rainmeter skin, I highly recommend ClockWorld.

Wisp

Wisp is distinctive because its sub-elements don’t have borders, making them look as if they’re directly drawn or written on the desktop background.

When paired with a suitable wallpaper, this creates a visually stunning desktop.

The skin displays modules that show disk space usage, temperature, system date and time, CPU and RAM usage, and network bandwidth.

The Gemini Suite

The Gemini Suite is a straightforward Rainmeter skin with widgets for CPU, RAM, storage, and date-time. However, it has some unique features.

You can instantly add your favorite games and apps to the left widget and even link your Steam account to launch games. 

The best part is the integration with Xbox Game Bar, allowing quick access to gaming tools.

The skin also includes an embedded wallpaper, which is a nice touch. If you’re a gamer, give The Gemini Suite a try.

Big Sur

If you’re a Windows user who loves macOS Big Sur widgets, this Rainmeter skin is for you.

It includes many widgets like a music player, system info, calendar, to-do list, clock, weather, and volume and brightness controls. 

One unique feature is the latest news articles displayed on your desktop.

Speed

Speed is another skin with frosted glass and transparency effects. It looks fantastic with muted and minimal wallpapers. 

The sub-modules of the skin maintain a uniform design and adjust to different screen sizes. They display network details, unread emails, time, date, and RSS feeds. 

You can monitor CPU and RAM usage with clear gauges, view the temperature, and check a three-day weather forecast.

T-R-A-N-S-F-O-R-M-E-X Mod

Take a trip back to the 2010s with the T-R-A-N-S-F-O-R-M-E-X Mod. This Rainmeter skin gives your Windows desktop a nostalgic look, similar to JetAudio. 

You can display location, weather, CPU, RAM, and SWAP details—the bottom features 3D icons for apps and power options, all set against a visualizer-style background.

Senja Suite

If you’re into minimalism, you’ll love Senja Suite. It’s a lightweight and clean Rainmeter skin that handles the basics well without overwhelming you with information. 

It displays time, a user profile button with an expandable bar for system folder shortcuts, a slideshow of favorite pictures, media info with control buttons, and shutdown/restarts/log-off options.

Moderate

Moderate skin is worth mentioning because it resembles the Android interface. It has a launcher, quick settings, and music controls, all available on the home screen.

If you have a touchscreen laptop, I highly recommend this material, Rainmeter Skin. 

To match the skin and desktop background, I used a ‘Futuristic City’ wallpaper from Reddit (you should check it out). I love this skin and suggest you try it on your computer.

Enigma

Enigma is the most downloaded Rainmeter skin. You can spend hours customizing it. In 2009, Rainmeter chose it as the default skin. Enigma displays almost any system information you need.

You can customize and arrange its sub-modules to fit your needs.

Enigma provides weather updates, world time, media status, picture slideshows, multiple RSS feeds, CPU and RAM usage, real-time active processes, quick notes, and more.

Simple Media

Simple Media is true to its name. It’s a bare and straightforward Rainmeter skin. Despite its simplicity, it looks great on almost any desktop. 

The skin includes modules displaying the current date and time, recycle bin status, and current temperature, with several variations available for each.

MNML UI

MNML UI is perfect for those who don’t want to clutter their Windows 10 desktop with widgets. It offers a clean and tranquil experience with almost no distractions.

The skin includes modern clock and date widgets that can elevate your desktop’s look.

Clouds

If you prefer minimal Rainmeter skins, take a look at Clouds. It only includes essential widgets like time, date, and a music visualizer. 

The skin is clean and doesn’t use much of your system’s resources. It also comes with a calming wallpaper, which is a nice touch. You can customize the skin to add other plugins if needed.

IronMan-Jarvis

You don’t need to be Tony Stark to have a J.A.R.V.I.S. computer. The IronMan-Jarvis Rainmeter skin is highly customizable, and you can quickly move around with multiple modules. 

It displays information like the clock/date, hard disk space, temperature details, RSS feeds, and shortcuts to system folders (e.g., My Documents) from the arc reactor core.

Eker Lina

Eker Lina offers a beautiful design as a Rainmeter skin. It includes various sub-modules that look like small widgets, all with a matching design.

You can arrange these sub-elements to create impressive layouts.

Eker Lina can display much information, including system folders and drive shortcuts, media controls, RSS feeds, time and date, and current weather.

Avengers SHIELD OS

While creating a team of superheroes might be challenging, you can still play Nick Fury at your computer with the Avengers SHIELD OS Rainmeter skin.

It’s available in different resolutions and includes handy shortcuts to frequently used apps like the browser and media player. 

It features a media playback bar, volume control, RAM and CPU usage monitor, shutdown/restart buttons, and a custom emblem.

What is Rainmeter? 

Rainmeter is a free program that allows you to change your desktop’s appearance entirely.

You can use it to show extra details like the clock, network data, and CPU usage on your desktop. 

With the many skins available, you can customize your desktop in various ways.

To use these skins, first install Rainmeter on your Windows PC. It is compatible with all versions from XP to 10 and works well on Windows 11, as verified in a separate guide on making Windows look like macOS.