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Wicklet
A cosy little fire for your Mac, with a gentle crackle
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.
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.
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About Wicklet on Product Hunt
“A cosy little fire for your Mac, with a gentle crackle”
Wicklet was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #133 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
Wicklet was featured in Mac (103.8k followers), Productivity (663.2k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 182.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Wicklet?
Wicklet was hunted by Dan Lynch. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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