iSnow 4+
Santa and snow on your windows
Rick Jansen
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- $3.99
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Description
Let it snow on your desktop, piling up on top of your windows 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.
What’s New
Version 3.0.7
- Apple Silicon compatible (3.0.6 still was Intel)
- iSnow now is a menu bar app
- More and bigger snowflakes
- snow buildup for smaller snowflakes more subtle
Ratings and Reviews
Snow effects are not quite what I remember
I used to use XSnow back in the day. Snow would nicely layer on top of windows, and you could shake the snow off. Moving or closing the window would let it fall or disappear.
This seems to occur with iSnow, but not quite the same way. It seems to hit other backgrounded windows rather than the one in the foreground - but maybe because they're a bit higher up behind the currently active window. It sort of works, but not as enjoyable as I remember and perhaps because of the fact that we use so many 'full screen' apps like browsers now.
I guess I'll never recapture my youth :)
Either way, it's fun, and lots of options, but not something I would rush to buy again for the price.
Developer Response ,
I know Xsnow, I wrote it :-) The wiping out of snow is the same in Xsnow and iSnow. I'll think about letting fallen snow further.
Love it!
Exactly what I wanted for the holiday season. Works great too. Thanks!
Cute !
Working just fine on my old mini 2012 on Sierra. Thanks!
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Information
- Seller
- Rick Jansen
- Size
- 275 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.12 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 1984-2023 Rick Jansen, all rights reserved
- Price
- $3.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.