Cocon
Free

Falling snow on your Mac desktop

Flakes of different sizes fall at several depths, a mist drifts through, and snow slowly piles up at the bottom of your screen.

Snow falling over a Mac desktop wallpaper, with a soft mist. This is the real app, recorded on a Mac.

For macOS 14 Sonoma and later

What you get

The flakes come from photographs of real snow, drawn at several depths so the nearest ones are large and blurred and the farthest are small and sharp. A light mist drifts with the wind.

Over about three minutes a drift builds along the bottom edge of the screen. The wind sets how fast the mist moves, and the sound is a quiet winter wind. Like every ambiance it sits behind your windows and never takes a click.

Settings

  • Volume control (free)
  • Visual intensity (Cocon Pro)
  • Wind (Cocon Pro)
  • Mist on or off (Cocon Pro)

Good to know

Snow is a calm, bright backdrop for focus, and a good way to bring a little winter to a summer afternoon. It is free, with a volume control.

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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