Wicklet
A cosy little fire for your Mac, with a gentle crackle
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Wicklet - A cosy little fire for your Mac, with a gentle crackle

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Wicklet puts a small, living fire on your Mac's desktop, with the soft crackle of a real hearth. The flames are drawn live on your Mac's graphics chip, not a looping video, and the crackles follow the flames. One slider sets the size, and Fire and Sound each have a switch. Clicks pass straight through, your Dock stays in front, and the fire steps aside for full-screen apps. No account, no permissions, no data collected. £2.99 once, on the Mac App Store.

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Hi Product Hunt! I'm Dan, a solo developer in the UK, and Wicklet is my first app. I kept playing crackling-fire videos while I worked, but they either took over a whole screen or ended up buried behind my windows. Wicklet is my fix: a little fire that stays in view while I work! The fire is drawn live by your Mac's graphics chip, so it never loops, and the sound is a real fireplace recording with live crackles on top. I kept the menu deliberately small: a size slider and switches for Fire and Sound. It's £2.99 once, with no subscription and nothing collected. I'd love to hear what you think, especially what would make it cosier.