Cocon
Cocon Pro

A thunderstorm on your Mac desktop

Branching lightning lights up the sky, forked bolts reach for the ground, and real thunder rolls in after each strike.

A lightning bolt over a stormy Mac desktop. This is the real app, recorded on a Mac.

For macOS 14 Sonoma and later

What you get

Each bolt is drawn from scratch: a jagged channel with branches that taper into points, and sometimes two or three arms that reach the ground together. A fainter, distant bolt may follow in another part of the sky. The rain is lit by every flash.

The stronger the storm, the more frequent, larger and closer the lightning. The thunder follows each strike after a delay that depends on how far away it was, using real thunder recordings from distant rumbles to close cracks.

Settings

  • Visual intensity
  • Lightning on or off
  • Wind

Good to know

Storm 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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