Let It Snow for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By blueturtl

  Probably the best in it’s category

  Just downloaded this and it’s good. Coupled with a winter/Christmas background image it works great to enhance the holiday mood (especially if you don’t get snow where you live). There are a few things to improve on for future versions though. CPU usage is quite high, for what this does. Also, I’d really like to be able to control the direction of the wind and be able to set real snowflake images as textures. The current snow is ok from afar, but close up it looks more like cotton balls than snow. Once you have that ability, you can use different snowflake models with transparent background to make realistic looking snow. The flakes could also spin, rotate and flip, just like real flakes do. Oh, and also an option to not have it snow on top of your windows would be great. The current snow is a bit distracting if you’re trying to work also and not just using your computer as a picture frame. If the makers of this great app did that, I wouldn’t have to get into software development. :)

  
  
• By AlexanderNRivera

  missing just one convenient thing

  I forgot i even had this app and just rediscovered it in launchpad. Had fun with it until i went to quit it. Wish you could do it from the dock by just hitting quit. Took me a minute to find it under the recents option which I thought was odd. Guess i am just too used to quitting from the dock on my apps there. But cute and soothing app. Am in Florida and I miss the beautiful snow.

  
  
• By Super☆Dave

  Winter Wonderland

  I like the app….the concept is great. I’d like to see an option to make it a standard screensaver vs. a separate application but I understand the limitations of the screensaver apps and it probably isn’t possible. It doesn’t seem to impact the performance on my 2013 PC in any way. I put it in my library/startup items so that it launches automatically at boot. I use this during the winter holidays and it adds a nice touch to your OSX desktop! The latest update puts an icon on your menu bar for easy access to preferences and controls.

  
  
• By rah55

  Love this app

  The best winter app I have - absolutely love it. Agreeing with some other posts, it takes about 10% CPU on my 3 year old MBP and WindowServer takes much more. The fan does run constantly, but considering the aesthetics it adds to the computer and winter in general, it’s a very worthwhile trade-off. Two requests for future - allow more snow pile-up and allow user to select which screens to be operative - my emails could use some snow. You can’t beat this app for inexpensive winter enjoyment!

  
  

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