Now with Classic mode: 8-bit snow & sprite lights
Snowy is a delightful menu bar app that adds falling snow and festive holiday lights to your desktop. Free, private, and battery-friendly.
Features
No dock icon, no clutter — just winter on demand. Snowy is built natively for Apple Silicon and stays out of your way.
Gentle, realistic snowflakes drift across your screen. Dial the intensity from a light flurry to a full blizzard, in front of or behind your windows.
Colorful string lights hang across the top of your screen with realistic catenary curves. Choose Multicolor, Warm White, Candy Cane, Blue, or Rainbow — Twinkle, Wave, or Steady.
Instantly transform your desktop with a bundled winter wallpaper. Restore your original anytime — Snowy remembers it per display.
GPU-accelerated rendering tuned for Apple Silicon. Snowy runs quietly in the background without draining your battery.
Everything lives in the menu bar. Toggle effects, set intensity, and pick themes in a tap — then get back to what you were doing.
Snow and lights span every connected screen and follow you across Spaces and full-screen apps — pinned neatly under the menu bar.
It's free. Download Snowy and let it snow.