🎄 Festivitas

€4+

Simon Støvring

359 ratings

Light up your Mac with festive lights and gentle snowfall 🎄❄️

Festivitas adds festive lights to your dock and menu bar and transforms your desktop into a winter wonderland with falling snow.

❤️ 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

Get ready to celebrate any occasion as Festivitas lights up your menu bar and dock the moment you launch it.

🖥️ Show festive lights in the dock, under the menu bar, or both.

✨ Choose from enchanting holiday effects like Twinkle, Wave, and Chase.
💡 Personalize your lights with a variety of designs: oval, circle, diode, heart, star, snowflake, bat, ghost, pumpkin, clover, egg, leaf, beer, champagne, cocktail, wine, 2025, and lantern.
🎨 Select from pre-made festive color palettes like Frosty White, Candy Cane Red, or Evergreen, or craft your own custom combination for that personal touch.
🔢 Control the number of lights and their spacing to create the perfect cozy ambiance.

🐢 From calm and peaceful to lively and energetic, adjust the animation speed to match your preference.
🐭 Let the lights react to your mouse. Watch them fade or move as you hover nearby, adding a playful touch to your festive display.
📍 Pin your lights under the menu bar to the desktop or let them float above all windows.
🤖 Automate both the festive lights and the snow using the new Shortcuts integration.
❄️ Turn your desktop into a cozy winter wonderland with the new snow effect.
🎁 ...and more!

Highly personalizable festive lights

Festivitas comes with a wide range of light bulbs, color presets, and animation patterns. You can also create your own color presets and export them to share with your family and friends.

Turn your Mac into a winter wonderland with snow

The new snow effect in the Mac app is fully customizable, giving you control to create anything from gentle, drifting flakes to a full blizzard.

Available in the menu bar

Quickly turn on the festive lights and the snow from the menu bar.

Automate with Shortcuts

The Shortcuts integration lets you automate your festive lights so they switch on at a specific time, turn on alongside your music, trigger snow effects based on the forecast, launch a full snow storm with the press of a button, and more.

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.

Available on iPhone and iPad

Add festive lights to your Home Screen with Festivitas’ personalizable widgets.

Festivitas for iPhone is free. The full version is unlocked with a one-time in-app purchase, purchased on the App Store and separately from the Mac app.

Release notes

Below are the release notes from the most recent updates.

1.9.1

Published on November 25th, 2025.

🐛 Fixes a bug where the wrong app icon would be shown on macOS Sequoia.
🐛 Addresss an issue where the Shortcuts tab in settings would be sized incorrectly on macOS Sequoia.

1.9.0

Published on November 25th, 2025.

👋 A new welcome tour introduces the most important features when you launch Festivitas for the first time.
❄️ Turn your desktop into a cozy winter wonderland with the new snow effect. Find it in settings.
🤖 Automate both the festive lights and the snow using the new Shortcuts integration.
🎆 Ring in the new year with the new 2026 lights.
🟢 Settings now indicate whether accessibility permissions are properly granted, ensuring Festivitas can display lights on your dock.

1.8.0

Published on June 9th, 2025.

💡👩‍💻 WWDC, Apple’s annual developer conference, kicks off in just a few hours! To celebrate, Festivitas now includes two new WWDC-themed light bulbs.

1.7.0

Published on January 2nd, 2025.

💡 Adds 10 new bulb designs: Bat, Ghost, Pumpkin, Clover, Egg, Leaf, Beer, Champagne, Cocktail, and Wine.
🐛 Resolved an issue where string lights in the menu bar were misaligned after waking the computer from sleep.

1.6.0

Published on December 29th, 2024.

🎆 The new “2025” design spells “2025,” with each light bulb representing its own digit. 
🪩 The “2025 (Stacked)” design displays “2025” on each light bulb.
🏮 Celebrate Lunar New Year in style with the new "Lantern" string lights!
⚙️ Settings will now open automatically when you launch the app.
🙈 You can now hide both the dock icon and the menu bar icon at the same time

1.5.0

Published on December 24, 2024.

💡 New Light Bulb Shapes! Customize your lights with a variety of shapes: oval, circle, diode, 2025, heart, star, and snowflake

1.4.0

Published on December 23, 2024.

🎨 Export and import color presets to easily share your favorite colors with others.

1.3.2

Published on December 23, 2024.

🚀 Performance Improvements: Significant reductions in resource usage and power consumption for a smoother and more efficient experience.
🐛 Bug Fixes: Resolved several minor issues to enhance stability and reliability.