Stream Deck Use Cases

Enhance your workflow with a collection of Windows assistants, smart tools, and instant wizards inspired by Microsoft PowerToys. The Windows Cockpit Plugin turns your Stream Deck into a powerful control center, letting you manage key actions, shortcuts, and processes effortlessly. Pre-configured assistants help streamline tasks and boost productivity across your Windows setup.

Stay updated directly from your Stream Deck with the RSS News Ticker. Track breaking news, entertainment releases, gaming updates, tech trends, sports results, and more in near real time. The plugin checks your chosen RSS feeds at customizable intervals, shows new articles instantly, and lets you open sources or a built-in reader with one press—keeping headlines accessible at a glance.

Launch your favorite radio stations instantly with the Live Radio Plugin for Stream Deck. Start streams with a single press while displaying your custom cover art directly on the key. A separate floating player allows independent control, shows current artwork, and appears in the Windows taskbar—giving you fast access, clear visuals, and full playback control anytime.

Check your live stream like a professional: With native plugins for OBS, Twitch and YouTube, you control the change of scene, records, chat interactions and much more-everything directly via your Stream Deck.

Play sound effects, control your music or change your voice live - all with just one push of a button. With Spotify integration and voiceemod, your stream, call or gaming evening become an experience.

Launch your favorite applications individually or open multiple programs simultaneously with a single button press.

TimePulse is an intelligent time-tracking plugin that automatically records how long you work in active apps and windows—no manual timers required. Using periodic activity snapshots, it tracks real focus time without intrusive monitoring and delivers clear daily insights, CSV exports, and visual dashboards to help freelancers, teams, and professionals understand and manage productivity more effectively.

Bring your memories to life with the Moments Slideshow plugin for Stream Deck. Display vacation photos, travel highlights, party moments, and personal collections directly on your keys as a dynamic slideshow. Images are automatically cropped and optimized for sharp button visuals without altering originals, supporting formats like JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, and TIF.

Add motion and personality to your Stream Deck with animated GIF icons from VIVRE-MOTION, designed to make your setup feel more dynamic, lively, and visually engaging.

Assign any keyboard shortcut to your Stream Deck and match it with the perfect icon from thousands of color variations, allowing you to customize your setup exactly for your favorite game.

Step into retro digital culture with this handcrafted Pixel Art Icon Pack inspired by arcade classics, early computer interfaces, and vintage gaming aesthetics. Featuring pixel-perfect icons for games, apps, UI design, streaming, and creative projects, the collection delivers authentic 8-bit and 16-bit style with clear readability and a cohesive nostalgic look.

Monitor your CCTV or IP cameras directly from a Stream Deck button. Connect private smart home cameras via RTSP or display public HTTP camera feeds for instant live viewing. Easily integrate your Stream Deck or Virtual Stream Deck into your smart home setup and keep an eye on your home, garden, or workspace at any time.

The Instant ZIP Manager plugin lets you compress or extract selected files and folders directly from Explorer with a single key press. Created archives are instantly copied to the clipboard for quick sharing, such as attaching to emails. Supports multiple formats, flexible extraction paths, optional cleanup, sound feedback, and a configurable console view for full process transparency.

The Plenom kuando® Busylight Stream Deck Plugin adds simple and effective status control to your Stream Deck, allowing you to manage your Kuando Busylight with ease. With a single button press, you can instantly show your availability and minimize interruptions — ideal for modern offices, hybrid teams, and structured work environments.

The Weather Screen Plugin delivers accurate forecasts while transforming your display into a live weather wallpaper that updates in real time, day and night. Choose from multiple visual styles and customize units like temperature, humidity, and wind speed. Dynamic backgrounds automatically adapt to current conditions, covering everything from sunshine and clouds to storms, snow, and fog.

The UNICODE MATRIX Plugin lets you instantly search Unicode symbols, emojis, and special characters in real time and save favorites for quick access. With fast, smartphone-style searching and a wide range of categories—from arrows and math symbols to pictographs, music icons, shapes, and technical characters—you can find and use any symbol effortlessly.

The Floating Color Picker lets you capture color values in real time directly under your cursor on Windows and Stream Deck. Instantly detect HEX, RGB, CMYK, or integer codes with customizable output formats and automatic clipboard copying. A zoomable preview enables pixel-precise selection, making color picking fast, accurate, and efficient for design workflows.

Matrix Screen Setup simplifies multi-monitor workflows by letting you position and arrange windows using percentage or pixel-based layouts. Automatically distribute apps across screens based on titles or processes, create flexible grid setups via Stream Deck actions, and optimize layouts for productivity, trading dashboards, or advanced workflows with precise window detection and positioning tools.

The System Vitals Monitor Plugin provides real-time tracking of essential system metrics directly on your Stream Deck. Monitor CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, network activity, temperatures, power usage, audio volume, battery status, and more through smooth animated charts inspired by Task Manager visuals, with optional logging for performance analysis and benchmarking.

Control your meetings and online calls directly from your Stream Deck. Toggle camera and microphone, raise your hand, and manage key actions instantly during Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack, or Google Meet sessions—so you can stay focused on the conversation instead of searching for controls.

Enhance your cursor experience with powerful presentation and control tools for Stream Deck and Windows. Highlight your pointer with customizable spotlight styles and colors, simulate natural mouse movement to prevent standby, add colorful mouse trails, and trigger visual sonar effects with audio feedback—perfect for presentations, recordings, gaming, and focused navigation.

Record and replay complete input sequences with the mouse simulator plugin for Stream Deck. Capture any keyboard shortcut or mouse action and emulate it instantly, allowing complex workflows, repetitive tasks, or combined inputs to be executed automatically with a single press.

Outlook Instant Mail streamlines your email workflow by creating ready-to-send Outlook 365 messages with predefined recipients, subject, HTML content, attachments, priority, and read-receipt options. Emails can open for review or send instantly, while signatures are added automatically—making reusable templates and fast communication effortless.

Elevate your trainings and presentations with powerful cursor-focus tools like Mouse Spotlight, Echo, Trail, and Focus Mask. These presentation plugins highlight your movements and guide viewer attention precisely, helping your audience follow every action on screen and stay fully engaged throughout your session.

Always keep track of your cursor with the Mouse Camera, which follows it live and centers the view at the press of a button. The Screen Dive plugin lets you zoom deep into your desktop for pixel-level detail, making navigation, presentations, and precise work clearer and more focused.

Translate selected text instantly with this Stream Deck plugin. Convert content into your chosen target language in seconds, with the translated result automatically copied back to your clipboard for quick and seamless use.

Control and execute VBA macros directly from your Stream Deck with this powerful interop plugin. Launch public subs and functions across Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, or Project 365 instantly—without complex ribbon menus. Trigger Office automation with a single key press and streamline workflows using dedicated Stream Deck controls.

Drop-Zone File Manager Pads add floating storage areas to your desktop for quickly copying or moving files and folders to predefined locations. Customize position, colors, and behavior, automatically create dated folders, and use Windows’ native copy process for full control. Includes a powerful delete option for fast cleanup and organized workflows.

Dynamic Search Island delivers ultra-fast web navigation by instantly launching searches through a focused input field. Your typed query dynamically replaces placeholders in custom URLs and opens results immediately in a new tab—perfect for maps, shopping, social platforms, streaming sites, and more, with flexible presets and fully customizable search links.

Adjust essential system settings instantly with a single click. Toggle airplane mode, switch languages, enable dark or light themes, activate HDR, or control the Windows night light filter directly from your Stream Deck for faster and more convenient system management.

Control your smart home effortlessly with the Shelly plugin and a comprehensive smart home icon pack. Manage devices intuitively while the IoT monitor provides a clear overview of everything—from lighting systems to your photovoltaic setup—all directly from your Stream Deck.

Back to the 90s-with the original retro icons from Windows 3.11, 95, 98 and XP!

Display custom full-screen status messages across one or all monitors with the Standby Screen plugin. Show personal notifications or visual updates on demand, similar to status screens known from messaging apps, creating a clear and eye-catching display whenever needed.