Easiest Shutdown

Rust

A tiny, always-in-the-tray Windows/Linux app that shuts down your PC in one click — with a glassy, animated countdown you can still cancel.

Download

Grab the latest Windows installer from the Mark I release

Project site: https://diegomarinangeli.github.io/easiest-shutdown/

Why

Right-click → Start menu → Power → Shut down is three clicks too many. Easiest Shutdown sits quietly in the system tray and turns shutting down into a single click: click the tray icon (or just launch the app), watch a 10-second glass countdown ring drain around your avatar, and the PC powers off — unless you hit Cancel or Esc first.

Features

• Lives in the tray — no taskbar clutter, starts hidden in the background.
• One click to shut down — left-click the tray icon, or simply launch the executable again while it's already running, and the countdown overlay appears instantly.
• Restart too — a toggle right next to Cancel switches the countdown to reboot instead of shutting down (also available from the tray menu's "Riavvia" entry).
• Shows on your main display — the countdown overlay opens on your primary monitor.
• 10-second countdown with a circular progress ring and a custom round avatar at its center.
• Cancel anytime with the on-screen button or the Esc key.
• Liquid-glass UI — translucent, blurred, rounded panels throughout.
• Cross-platform shutdown/restart commands: shutdown /s|/r /t 0 on Windows, systemctl poweroff|reboot on Linux.

Tech stack

• Tauri 2 (Rust backend + native webview)
• Vanilla HTML / CSS / JavaScript frontend — no framework, no bundler
• tauri-plugin-single-instance to keep a single running instance
• tauri-plugin-opener