Let it Snow Desktop

Let it Snow Desktop

Snow on your Mac

Gentle snowfall on your wallpaper, behind every window. Set it up once and keep working — it uses up to 1% CPU.

Download on the Mac App Store

macOS 13.5 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel

New in version 2.0

Live Weather

Tie a display to a city, and the snow follows its hourly forecast

Your own settings

Your style, speed, size and wind, kept as you set them

Weather

Any city, a snowy favorite or your location

The weather sets

  • How much falls, from flurries to a blizzard
  • Speed and sway, from the wind
  • Flake size, from the temperature
  • Rain and sleet when it rains there
  • A clear desktop under clear skies

Also new in 2.0

  • A new design

    Every control has a fresh, cleaner look

  • More animation

    Buttons, popovers and the snow itself move more, and every motion is smooth and soft

  • Any number of displays

    Each one keeps its own settings, and reconnecting brings them back exactly as you left them

  • Fewer surprises

    Every known bug and annoying glitch is fixed

Behind every window

Snow falls on the wallpaper only. Windows, the Dock and the menu bar stay on top, and clicks go through.

Controls in the menu bar

Pick a particle style, set speed and quantity on one pad, plus size and angle. Pause with one click.

Pick where it snows

Turn the snow on or off for each display from one list, or for all of them at once

Performance

Measured in Activity Monitor on a MacBook Pro with M1, with snow on two displays: the built-in one and an external 4K monitor

≤1%CPU

At most, even with snow on two displays at once.

≤80 MBMemory

Across both displays, with the controls open.

LowEnergy Impact

It never keeps your Mac awake, so your battery barely notices it.

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Questions

Yes, the app works natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel.

Yes. Each display can have its own settings, or you can control all displays together.

Live Weather ties the snow to a real city. Let it Snow Desktop reads that city's hourly forecast from Apple Weather and sets the amount, speed, flake size and wind for you: snow when it snows there, rain when it rains, and a clear desktop under clear skies.

No. You can pick any city by name. Your current location is optional and used only to get the forecast, at about one-kilometer accuracy. It is never sent to the developer.

Yes. Your own settings are the default, and moving any slider switches that display back to them. Each display can keep its own settings or follow its own city.

Yes. Let it Snow Desktop is free, Live Weather included.

No. With snow on two displays it uses up to 1% CPU and up to 80 MB of memory, with a Low Energy Impact.

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