Holiday Lights: Festive string lights & falling snow for your Mac

**Holiday Lights** brings festive cheer to your Mac year-round. Inspired by a love of holiday decorating, it drapes glowing light strings across your screen and Dock, adds drifting snow or confetti, and lets you customize colors, shapes, and effects to create the perfect cozy atmosphere while you work. Celebrate Christmas, Halloween, Lunar New Year, and more with a touch of magic always at your fingertips.

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm the maker of Holiday Lights — and honestly, this one comes straight from the heart. I'm the person who over-decorates every Halloween and Christmas. Lights everywhere. That cozy glow is genuinely my favorite feeling of the whole year. One day I tried an app that put lights on my Mac screen — loved the idea, but it felt unfinished. Not enough control, not enough personality. So instead of just wishing it were better, I built the version I actually wanted. Holiday Lights hangs glowing string lights across your screen AND your Dock, with falling snow and confetti. A few things I'm proud of: 🎨 Your Dock lights are fully independent from the top garland — different colors, shapes, animations 🎃🎄 15+ bulb shapes (pumpkins, ghosts, lanterns, beer mugs, year banners… or your own image as a bulb) 💡 11 animation modes, from calm to full party 🧧 Automatic seasonal themes (Halloween, Christmas, Chinese New Year, New Year) — it dresses itself and changes back on its own 🔄 Signed, notarized, with free automatic updates It's mid-year, I know — but that's kind of the point. Get cozy now, enjoy it all year, and your Mac's already ready when the season hits. This is v1 and I've got a lot more planned. I'd genuinely love your feedback, ideas, and what shapes/effects you'd want next. 💛 Thanks for checking it out!

the fact that it wraps the lights around the Dock and not just floats them randomly is honestly such a nice touch, you can tell someone really thought about how it integrates with macOS instead of just slapping an overlay on top