Snowpile🏔️
Drifts on every window
Flakes land on the top edge of whatever window is in front, and on the taskbar or Dock. Move a window and its snow tumbles off.
Works on
Windows
Mac
Let it pile up.
Real snow on your Windows PC or Mac. It piles up on top of your windows, your cursor brushes it off, and a snowplow, snowmen and a very merry Santa drop by.
Holiday launch priceWindows and Mac versions both includedPay once, no subscription
The one everyone asks about
Santa, after the office party
He drops onto your windows, hiccups, trips over his own boots and walks straight into things. Call the snowplow and watch him go flying. Nobody gets hurt, he just needs a minute.
What it does
A proper winter, right on your desktop
Snowpile sits quietly in your menu bar or next to the clock. Everything below works on both Windows and Mac.
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Brush it off
Sweep your cursor through a drift and it puffs into the air. Or grab the shovel and clear everything at once.
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Call the snowplow
A little yellow plow drives along the bottom of the screen and blows the snow sky-high.
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Snowmen
Put a snowman on top of a window. A quick flick of the cursor knocks it over.
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Santa's flyover
Every few minutes Santa and his reindeer cross the sky, leaving a trail of gold sparkles.
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Your weather
Light, steady, heavy or blizzard. Wind from either side, with gusts. Soft flakes or crystals.
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Stays out of the way
Clicks go straight through the snow. It hides during full-screen games and video and eases off on battery.
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Speaks your language
English, Українська, Polski, Español and Русский. It picks your computer's language by itself.
Install
Snowing in about a minute
Buy
Pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. The download buttons appear right away, and the link comes by email too.
Download
Windows: run Snowpile.exe. Mac: open the file and drag Snowpile into Applications.
Let it snow
The snow starts falling straight away. Find the settings under the snowflake icon.
Installing on a Mac
- Open Snowpile.dmg from your Downloads folder.
- Drag the Snowpile icon onto the Applications folder in the window that opens.
- Open Applications and double-click Snowpile.
- If your Mac says it could not verify Snowpile, click Done. Then open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway next to Snowpile. Confirm with your password or Touch ID.
- A snowflake appears in the menu bar at the top right, and the snow starts falling.
Step 4 is needed only once. On macOS 14 or older it's quicker: right-click Snowpile, choose Open, then Open again. Macs show this for apps from independent developers that aren't sold in the App Store.
Installing on Windows
- Open Snowpile.exe from your Downloads folder. There's nothing to install, it runs straight away.
- If a blue window says Windows protected your PC, click More info, then Run anyway.
- A snowflake appears next to the clock. If you can't see it, click the ^ arrow there. Click the snowflake for settings.
- Want snow every day? Turn on Start with Windows in that menu.
Tip: move Snowpile.exe out of Downloads first, for example to Documents, so it doesn't get cleaned up by accident.
Price
Cheaper than a mug of cocoa
Pay once and keep it. You get both versions, so put it on your Windows PC, your Mac, or both.
Holiday launch price
$5.99 $8.99one payment
For Windows and Mac, both included
- Windows 10 and 11, macOS 12 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel)
- Use it on all your own computers
- All future updates included
Secure checkout by Stripe. Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Questions
Before you buy
Will it slow my computer down?
On a normal snowfall Snowpile uses a small share of one processor core. It lowers the amount of snow on battery or when a Mac runs hot, and it hides during full-screen games and video.
Can I still click things under the snow?
Yes. The snow is only a picture on top of your screen. Clicks and typing go straight to your windows.
Does it look at what's on my screen?
No. Snowpile only knows where your windows are, so it knows where snow can land. It never sees what's inside them and doesn't send anything anywhere.
How do I pause or turn it off?
Click the snowflake in the Mac menu bar or next to the Windows clock. Ctrl+Alt+S on Windows or ⌃⌥S on Mac pauses the snow from anywhere.
My Mac or Windows shows a warning when I open it
That's normal for apps from independent developers. On a Mac, open System Settings, then Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway next to Snowpile. On Windows, click More info, then Run anyway. You only do this once. Step-by-step guide.
Your desktop deserves a white winter
Five minutes from now it could be snowing on your screen.