Glimmer Pond
A koi pond for your desktop
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
A little water, color, and movement on your Mac desktop.
Glimmer Pond brings a watercolor koi pond beneath your desktop icons. Fish glide through shifting light, lily pads sway in the breeze, and an occasional leaf lands on the water and drifts away.
FISH THAT RESPOND
Watch koi swim together, chase, pause, and move away as your pointer approaches. Click an empty area of the desktop or use the menu bar to feed them. They gather around the food, then gradually return to their own paths.
PAINT YOUR OWN KOI
Give a fish a name, paint its markings, and adjust its body, fins, size, shape, and temperament in the Fish Workshop. See changes in a live pond preview, then save your fish and watch it leap into the water. Undo, redo, saved drafts, and local backup import and export help you keep your creations.
MORNING TO NIGHT
Choose morning, daytime, evening, or night, or let the lighting follow your system clock. Morning dew rests on leaves and stones, fireflies appear around dusk and at night, and the fish settle into different daily rhythms.
SIX WEATHER SCENES
Explore sun, clouds, mist, light rain, the clearing after rain, and snow. Choose a scene or let the local weather cycle change gradually. These are artistic weather scenes generated on your Mac; they do not use your location or show live weather.
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
Adjust the fish population, wind, and decorative details. Choose optional ambient sound, a quiet preset, reduced motion, or an energy-saving mode. Enable the pond separately on each connected display.
No account is required. Settings and custom fish stay on your Mac, and the pond and workshop work offline.
BEFORE YOU START
Requires macOS 14 or later. The app uses Simplified Chinese when your preferred language is Simplified Chinese, and English for all other languages. After launch, use the fish icon in the macOS menu bar for settings, feeding, pause, and quit. Without Accessibility access, clicking a desktop icon may also trigger feeding; you can turn desktop feeding off and use the menu instead.
Ratings & Reviews
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- Explore two new landscapes: Stream Shallows and Lotus Corner, alongside Classic Pond.
- Save favorite pond configurations and quickly restore lighting, weather, fish and sound settings.
- Start with six fish templates, choose from nine base patterns, and see your brush size while painting.
- Export and import individual fish files, with a preview before adding them. Existing fish are kept.
- Enjoy softer water highlights, richer fish lighting, and more natural swimming, gliding, resting and social behavior.
- See clearer, soft fish shadows that follow the light, with drifting highlights and more visible breeze-driven water motion.
- Reduce shimmering in fine fish markings and fin edges as they move.
- Improve rendering and display synchronization on high-refresh-rate screens.
- Fix fish mouths showing through other fish when they overlap during feeding.
- Improve pointer interaction: hovering over a fish's head, body or tail makes it briefly speed up and swim away.
- Nearby fish notice floating leaves and hovering dragonflies, while passing breezes move reeds, lily pads and leaves.
- Added painting-capacity warnings that preserve existing strokes, and improved export and import of complex artwork.
- Respond immediately to system Reduce Motion changes in both the desktop pond and workshop preview.
- Improved stability during repeated feeding and display changes, and refined portrait layouts.
The developer, 广 蒙, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- 广 蒙
- Size
- 15.1 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Glimmer Pond
