Add holiday cheer to your Mac's desktop with Festivitas

It's what you look at most of the day, so why not adorn it with some festive lighting?
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Stan Schroeder
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Festivitas macOS
So cheerful. Credit: Festivitas

You've adorned your house with festive lights, but your Mac's desktop is still the same as it ever was? Time to change that.

Let's face it: You probably spend a good portion of the day looking at your desktop. So why not add some holiday cheer to it? Enter Festivitas, an app by developer Simon Støvring (via MacRumors), which lets you add a string of twinkling lights to your macOS desktop.

The app, which requires macOS 14.6 or later, offers a fair degree of customization; you can set parameters such as cable thickness, light size, their distance, lighting pattern, colors, and more.


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The app costs €4 (or more if you're feeling generous), which is about $4.23, and it's available on the Festivas website.

Topics MacBook

Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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