Cocon
Cocon Pro

A river on your Mac desktop

Fine currents flow across your screen and part around drifting leaves, with ripples that follow each one downstream.

A river current with drifting leaves over a Mac desktop. This is the real app, recorded on a Mac.

For macOS 14 Sonoma and later

What you get

The water is made of thin lines of current. When a leaf drifts by, the lines bend around it, and small ripples trail behind. The current runs slightly across the screen, as in a real stream.

The intensity sets the speed of the water, from a slow, calm flow to livelier rapids, and the sound goes from a gentle current to rushing water. Rapids can be turned on or off.

Settings

  • Visual intensity, which sets the speed of the current
  • Rapids on or off

Good to know

River is part of Cocon Pro, a one-time purchase. You can preview it for 30 seconds before deciding.

Cocon lives in the menu bar. It draws on the desktop, behind your windows, never takes a click, needs no account and no special permission, and pauses when a full-screen app covers it.

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