Tiny 3D things that live
on your desktop.
Introducing iCharm for macOS.
iCharm puts animated 3D charms on your Mac desktop. Fruits, treats, gems, little characters. They float above your wallpaper, below your windows, and they stay exactly where you drag them.
You collect them through a capsule machine. Turn the handle, watch it shake, and see what drops out. Every pull is a small event with its own animation sequence.
Each charm is its own borderless, transparent window rendered with SceneKit. They sit at a window level just above the desktop but below everything else, so they never get in the way. Drag to reposition. Right-click for options. That's it.
Pro users get multiple simultaneous charms, the full collection, and ambient awareness where charms subtly react to your screen time patterns. More usage, more glow. It's gentle.
30 charms at launch. Fruits, baked goods, characters with personality. A few favorites:
I wanted to make something that was just nice to have around. No productivity angle. No notifications. Just a little thing on your screen that makes you smile.
Desktop customization used to be a whole thing. Wallpapers, widgets, icon packs. Somewhere along the way, everything got serious and utilitarian. I missed the era when people made their computers feel like theirs.
iCharm is small on purpose. It doesn't try to be a platform or a productivity tool. It's a capsule machine on your Mac. That's the whole pitch.
Free tier gets you 5 starter charms and one on your desktop at a time. Pro is a one-time $14.99 unlock for the full collection and everything else.
Browse the charms at charm.z8ch.com, or grab it from the Mac App Store.