Festive Lights decorates your Mac and then stays out of the way. This page covers the themes, the lights and pets, the snow, weather and music modes, the schedule and Shortcuts, and what the free version includes.
String lights hang right below the menu bar and line up along the Dock. Each theme adds decorations in the screen corners, and pets walk above the Dock. Snow and sparkles, when turned on, fall over the desktop.
No. Nothing ever blocks your clicks - you can use the menu bar, the Dock and every window as normal underneath.
Six: Halloween, Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day, Easter and Winter. Each changes the bulbs, the corner decorations and the pets, not just the colours.
Yes. The theme of the current season is always free and switches by itself as the holidays come. With Premium you can choose any theme at any time of year.
Round bulbs, classic bulbs, icicles, stars, hearts, snowflakes, pumpkins, bats, ghosts, eggs and clovers, animated with Twinkle, Wave, Chase, Pulse, Sparkle or Steady. You can also adjust the brightness, the number of lights and how much the cable sags.
Push them with your mouse and they swing, then settle back.
There are 127 of them - reindeer, penguins, black cats, ghosts, puppies, bunnies, dinosaurs, unicorns and more. They walk, crawl, fly or swim above your Dock, take naps, jump around and show a heart when you point at them. Pick your favourites and choose how many there are and how fast they move.
Gentle snowfall with adjustable intensity. It drifts away from your pointer as you work, so it never sits on what you are reading.
With Weather mode on, snow appears when it is really snowing where you are. Your location is used only to fetch local weather from Apple WeatherKit, and it is never stored.
Music mode listens to the sound around you and makes the lights pulse with it. The audio is analysed on your Mac and never recorded. With Bluetooth headphones connected, the Mac's built-in microphone is used, so your headphones keep full sound quality.
Yes. Turn on Launch at Login, and set a daily schedule - for example 5 PM to 11 PM - so the decorations only show in the evening.
Actions to show or hide decorations, change the theme or let it snow. Use them in the Shortcuts app, in automations or from a keyboard shortcut.
It is designed not to. Decorations pause automatically when hidden, when your screen is locked or asleep, and while covered by full-screen apps.
Yes, it works across multiple displays.
Free: the seasonal theme with its lights and corner decorations, Dock lights and swinging lights. Premium adds every theme all year, all bulb shapes and light settings, snow, sparkles, all 127 pets, music and weather modes, the schedule and Shortcuts.
No. Premium is a one-time purchase.
None. No accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.
Any Mac running macOS 13 or later.
String lights on your menu bar and Dock, six holiday themes, snow around your cursor and 127 desktop pets.
Lights on the menu bar in under a minute.
Everything lives in the menu bar icon - there is no window to keep open.
Try this in Festive Lights & Desktop Pets →Bulbs, animation and density.
Fewer, brighter lights with a little sag look closest to a real string.
Try this in Festive Lights & Desktop Pets →Pick the ones you want walking above your Dock.
A few slow pets are calmer to work beside than a crowd of fast ones.
Try this in Festive Lights & Desktop Pets →Weather mode, with Apple WeatherKit.
Location is used only to fetch the local weather and is never stored.
Try this in Festive Lights & Desktop Pets →Music mode listens on your Mac and never records.
A daily schedule, so the workday stays plain.
Show, hide, change theme or let it snow from any shortcut.
A "hide decorations" shortcut is handy before screen sharing or a presentation.
Try this in Festive Lights & Desktop Pets →Our support team usually replies within one business day.
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