Looks just like our real fireplace and the loop is long enough that I don't notice a repeat. Runs smoothly and the pop-up functions great. I am assuming the app has been greatly improved since it was first developed since I think it is fantastic on my Macbook Pro.

This is pretty cool! It makes a fun "fire" sound and looks very real- fun for a night inside with a glass of wine and a good book. The pop up goes away after about 3 seconds of moving your cursor away from it. It is only there so that you can exit and adjust the volume. I would listen to all the other reviews because they clearly didn't try to remove the cursor :) Thanks to the guy who suggested doing that. It made this app experience all the more peaceful!Have fun!

I tried everything I could think of to make the giant popup in the center of the screen to go away, and couldn't figure out how to do it! Finally, I discovered that PATIENCE is what it takes. If you move your cursor away from the popup, and then don't touch your mouse for about 20 seconds, the popup finally goes away.It would be nice if they had an "X" on the corner of the popup that you could click to close the popup sooner, or perhaps simply clicking on the fire could close it. It was very frustrating until I figured this out!Other than the fact that the video clip repeats every 5 seconds, and the transistion from the last frame to the first frame when it repeats is very noticeable (they should have done a better job with this, so that the repeat isn't so noticeable), this is a cute app. Kind of makes a nice screen to leave my computer on when I go to sleep at night. It provides a little bit of light and has a soothing effect, just like a real fire would (minus the heat).They should have designed this program as a screen saver!

...and after I erase and reinstall my OS, am going to download it too... but this is fine for now. Makes a nifty screen saver. Oh and yes there is a pop-up on this version.... it's free... that's how developers make a little cash. It's called MARKETING. The pop-up goes away, and all is well.