Fully functional
Places a fully functional Microsoft Outlook calendar directly on your desktop. Create, edit, and remove items just like you would in Outlook.
Windows utility for Outlook Classic
Outlook on the Desktop
Keep your Outlook calendar, inbox, notes, tasks, and folders visible directly on your desktop without opening the full Outlook window.
Features
Pinned to your desktop
The calendar is pinned to your desktop so no windows can get stuck behind it.
Dark mode
Follows your Windows light/dark setting for the header bar, tray menu, and dialogs.
Customizable
The calendar's position, size, and opacity are all easily adjustable, and calendar views use the time scale you've set in Outlook.
HiDPI & multi-monitor support
Full HiDPI and multi-monitor support lets you place instances across all of your screens.
Multiple instances
Run several calendar, inbox, or task windows at once and assign each one to its own virtual desktop.
Tray icon with day of month
A tray icon that shows the current day of the month gives you quick access to the app’s more advanced options.
Use any Outlook view
Switch between any Outlook view, including calendar, inbox, contacts, tasks, and notes.
Signed & self-updating
Code signed, with built-in updates that are verified before they install and relaunch the app automatically.
How to put Outlook on your desktop
Outlook on the Desktop turns your Microsoft Outlook calendar into a desktop calendar widget for Windows — a live month, week, or day view pinned to your wallpaper so your schedule is always in sight. Here is how to get your calendar on the desktop in three steps.
1. Install in seconds
Download the installer and run it. Setup fetches the required .NET runtime for you if it is not already on your PC, so there is nothing else to configure.
2. Pin Outlook to the desktop
OotD hosts the Outlook Classic view directly on your desktop, behind your other windows, so your calendar, inbox, tasks, and notes stay visible without opening the full Outlook app.
3. Size it to your screens
Drag, resize, and set the opacity to taste, then place separate instances across multiple monitors. Your layout is saved when you exit, so it returns exactly how you left it.
Built for people who live in Outlook
Outlook on the Desktop is useful when your schedule is the center of your day and switching windows is friction you do not need.
Important compatibility note
The latest OotD versions require Outlook Classic. If Windows has switched you to the new Outlook, switch back to Classic before using OotD.