🎄 Festivitas

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Festivitas brings the holiday spirit to your Mac with festive lights for the dock and menu bar 🎄

❤️ TechCrunch: Holiday app Festivitas puts Xmas lights on your Mac
🧡 Forbes: Hang Christmas Lights On Your Mac With This Cheap App
💛 Daring Fireball: Festivitas — Holiday Lights for Your Mac Menu Bar and Dock
💚 MacRumors: Festivitas Lets You Add Holiday Lights to Your Mac Desktop
🩵 9to5Mac: ‘Festivitas’ brings holiday cheer to your Mac’s dock and menu bar
💙 MacStories: A Fun Way to Add Holiday Cheer to Your Mac

🎵 🎄
Deck the dock with festive lighting,
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
Menu bar is so exciting,
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
String the apps with glowing cheer,
Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la!
Christmas comes to macOS here,
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
🎵 🎄

Festivitas automatically adds festive lights to your menu bar and dock upon launch and you can tweak their appearance to match your preferences ✨

Accessibility Permission

Upon the first launch, Festivitas will request access to accessibility features. Festivitas needs this permission to locate the dock on your screen and decorate it with festive lights.

You can enable or disable this permission anytime in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. See the screenshot below for guidance.

Release notes

1.3.0

Published on December 21, 2024.

🎨 New Color Presets: Store multiple sets of colors and easily switch between them in settings.

💅 Settings Redesign: The settings window has been reorganized from top to bottom to make it easier and faster to find what you need.

🎄 Enhanced Patterns: The “Chase” and “Every Nth” patterns now support longer configurable distances.

🏎️ Performance Boost: Reduced memory usage to enhance overall performance.

1.2.2

Published on December 18, 2024.

🐛 Fixed an issue where dock lights might not display when multiple monitors are connected to the Mac.

1.2.1

Published on December 17, 2024

Addresses a regression introduced in 1.2.0.

1.2.0

Published on December 17, 2024.

🎄New Pattern: Twinkly! Your lights now sparkle like they’re showing off for the season. Finally, Twinkly has arrived!
🌊 New Pattern: Wave! Smooth, flowing lights that might make you feel like you’re on a festive beach vacation.
✨ Improved Animations: Light bulbs now fade on and off more elegantly.
🐁 Mouse-Aware Menu Lights: The lights in the menu bar move away when your mouse gets close. Shy, but charming. (Disable in settings if you prefer your lights braver.)
👻 Fade Out on Hover: Menu bar lights can now fade out when hovered. Fancy? Subtle? Yes and yes. (Enable in settings.)
🔄 Reset Button: Messed up your settings? Boom — one click, and it’s like nothing ever happened.
🔍 Full-Screen Lights: Even in full-screen mode, your lights will keep shining. Because productivity doesn’t have to be boring.
🏎️ Performance Upgrades: Festivitas is now more performant Less power, more cheer.

1.1.2

Published on December 8, 2024.

🐛 Addresses an issue where lights added to the dock when hovering did not follow the pattern.

1.1.1

Published on December 8, 2024.

🌑 Adds an “Always Off” setting for those situtations where you’re in a festive mood but not really.
🐛 Addresses an issue where lights were not drawn when selecting the “Always On” option.
🫥 Prevents the lights from being hidden when hiding windows, e.g. when hiding Festivitas’ settings window.
🐇 Makes small tweaks to make Festivitas more performant.

1.1.0

Published December 7, 2024.

🏎️ It’s getting cold outside, but how about we gather around the fireplace instead of booting up Festivitas? This update improves performance to reduce power consumption and heat dissipation.
💡 Light bulbs now face downward when the dock is placed on the left or right side of the screen. Gravity is a thing, after all.
🔙 Festive lights sometimes get in the way, so you now have the option to keep them on the desktop.
🎨 You can now configure the cable color to match your light bulbs.
👻 The opacity of the string lights is adjustable, making it easier to see content behind them.
⚙️ A new setting lets you choose if Festivitas should appear in the dock, menu bar, or both.