Let it snow on your desktop, piling up on top of your windows (yes!) and the screen (really!), and have Santa and his reindeer fly around your screen for that Extra Festive Season Cheer. Maybe there's a polar bear somewhere too.
New: 2023:
- Menu bar app, bigger snow flakes, and you can hide the Dock icon
- Apple Silicon compatible
New features (December 2021):
- The Moon and Sun (optionally) travel across your desktop with proper rise and set times, based on the current time and date and your geolocation on Earth, using the internal astronomical calculator.
- You can let Sun and Moon follow a natural path, a straight line, or have it stationary in a fixed location on your desktop.
- The true moon phase will be shown for the current date and time, and your location, but you can also set the moon to “always full moon”, or select a fixed moon phase.
- If you prefer you can have the Moon rotate with a speed you can specify.
- The size of the moon, sun and Earth can be set dynamically.
- Earth can also be shown, though it technically does not feature in our sky.
- Aurora Borealis in the background. Faintly coloured lines and patches of color in the sky, slowly changing and evolving. Colours and shapes can be changed, there is an Aurora editor built-in.
There are lots of options to control the snowfall, the wind, Rudolf's red nose, the size of the snowflakes, Santa, the bear, the snowdrops, etc.
Sinterklaas (Dutch Saint Nicholas) is present too, but only if you have been very good, this year.
iSnow is compatible with multi-monitor setups.
NOTE: If you have trouble starting iSnow you can hold down the option-key while starting the application, that will reset the settings.
iSnow, the classic Snow since 1984.
iSnow does not collect data, and no data is shared.
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Perfect for the holidays!
Sam E
I'm glad the developer is continuing to maintain this product. I enjoy decorating my Mac desktop for the holidays, and it's nice to be able to add snow to my desktop.The iSnow app has a lot of customization options. you can decide from a large selection of snowflakes of all shapes and sizes, and whether you want a bear to walk along the screen . . . or SANTA!!!
Fun Application.. One Issue
tkukoc
Really enjoy having the snow on the screen but the one issue i'm having is all the snow goes behind the safari browser windows. When the windows are in split-screen on widescreen monitors the snow only comes back if I tap the program again. And I have all other settings turned off like snow build up and even wind. Other than that its a fun application, just wish the snow effect was shown no matter what im doing, fullscreen, splitscreen, windowed.
Developer Response
iSnow is a guest on your screen, it cannot make it snow over other active application windows! You can make the snow fall in front of all/other apps by clicking the iSnow icon, or on falling snow, but the moment you click another App’s window that will be frontmost, and have no snow over it. Especially if you use an app fullscreen I cannot snow over that, unless you don’t use that window, and select iSnow as the active application.
Fixed 2.0.5 Crashes
Technageek
I have loved this app for a very long time. It adds a touch of wintery class to my desktop and cheers me up when I see santa and his rieghndeer fly a cross my screen. But today I updated to 2.0.5 and the app crashes instantly and is no longer usable. Needs a fix ASAPUpdate. The program was quicly fixed and working wonderfuly.
Cozy wintertime app
wrenziiit
I'm always sad to shut down AutumnLeaves at the end of fall... but then it's time for iSnow! So cute, works really smoothly. I love the new option for St Nikolaas. I'm so glad these apps are still being updated and lovingly developed with more options. Great work. <3
Developer Response
Thank you for your lovely comment! Enjoy!
- Corrected moon trajectory for days where the moon sets before it rises
Version 3.0.10
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