Snow for your Mac desktop.
Snowy lets real-looking snow fall on your desktop. It piles up on your windows, the Dock and the floor of the screen, and you can dig it, roll it and build a snowman.
Free. Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later. 2 MB.
What it does
- Snow that builds up slowlyPiles grow only where flakes land, and slide when they get too steep.
- No limit on the floorLeave it running and the drift keeps rising up the screen.
- Heavy stormFar more flakes, falling faster, with swinging gusts.
- A shovel that digsCut a pit, bank the snow beside it, watch the walls slump back.
- Snowballs and snowmenHold Option to roll a ball. Stack three and the top one gets a face.
- Your own falling pictureMake any image fall and spin in place of snowflakes.
First launch
The app is not notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks it the first time.
- Unzip the download and drag Snowy.app into Applications.
- Try to open it once. macOS will refuse.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.
Or run this once in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Snowy.app
A snowflake appears in the menu bar. Everything is in that menu. Your desktop stays clickable the whole time.