Wicklet
A cosy little fire for your Mac, with a gentle crackle
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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.
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PH · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Yes It can be vibe-coded as a lightweight macOS Swift application running a transparent, click-through window with a procedural Metal/GLSL fire shader and looping audio.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 192 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #60 of 193 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
- FanBubble · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Fennec - stop mac speaker crackling · ph · 2026-10-04 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Crack · hn · 2026-03-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Warm Mittens · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- mactap · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Wisp · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- KnockKnock · ph · 2026-10-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ShakeNotes for Mac · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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More details
- External ID
- 1281712
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Wicklet
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- All tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- AI summary
- virtual fireplace for mac
- Manually corrected
- No