Dashcode was a software application created by Apple Inc. that was included with Mac OS X Leopard and facilitates the development of widgets for Dashboard.

It was first included on new MacBooks shipping around the time of May 24, 2006, as part of the Xcode developer tools.

Dashcode, Version 3.0 (328), was included as part of Apple's Xcode developer tools on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD as an optional install.

Steve Jobs mentioned Dashcode as a new feature to be included in Leopard during his 2006 WWDC keynote speech.

When announcing this release, Apple stated the beta had been "scaled back" for compatibility with Mac OS X v10.4.