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24 alternatives to MatrixRain

Fullscreen digital rain for your browser

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Transform your screen into The Matrix with cinematic rain

    Jan 2026 · apps.microsoft.com · its alternatives →

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    C++ Matrix: The Matrix Reloaded in Terminals (Number falls, Banners, Matrix rains, Conway's Game of Life and Mandelbrot set) - akinomyoga/cxxmatrix

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bluesky firehose visualized in a Matrix-style rain

    2024 · simone.computer · its alternatives →

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    For HTML Day 2025 [1], I made a web service that displays the current sky at your approximate location as a CSS gradient. Colours are simulated on-demand using atmospheric absorption and scattering coefficients. Updates every minute, without the use of client-side JavaScript. Source code and additional information is available on GitHub: https://github.com/dnlzro/horizon [1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html

    2025 · sky.dlazaro.ca · its alternatives →

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    The Matrix digital rain screensaver for macOS

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…

    2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    Make your Mac rain

    2024 · rain-screen.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Generate nice looking color matrix filters for your images

    2021 · fecolormatrix.com · its alternatives →

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    There are lots of glassmorphism generators out there, but I wanted to push the effect further! This project is the result of months of experimenting with CSS property layering and battling browser quirks. Cross-browser compatibility is actually the reason I rely on ::before and ::after pseudo-elements to build up the effect. Move the color/opacity to the main element, and you’ll get weird color bleed on the corners in Chrome. Move the texture, and it muddles the bevel’s specular highlight. Move the bevel, and it gets blurred out by the backdrop-filter. And so on! Layers include: *…

    2025 · glass3d.dev · its alternatives →

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    An eyedropper for your browser.

    2014 · colorzilla.com · its alternatives →

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    Rainway▲302

    Play your favorite PC games from any web enabled device

    2018 · 6over3.com · its alternatives →

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    Rainbrow▲190

    iPhone X game controlled by your eyebrows 😯😠😯

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Just-add-water CSS animations

    2014 · daneden.github.io · its alternatives →

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    skyler▲74

    Weather-based outfit inspiration

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Silk▲92

    An Interactive web canvas for "Light Painting"

    2015 · weavesilk.com · its alternatives →

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    Suifeng▲63

    Global weather, virtual background light music

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Last year I launched a website that allow people to see rainfall statistics that are based on satellite data. Historical rainfall information usually comes from rain gauges, and while these are fantastic there are many parts of the world that don't have many long term gauges, or where that data is hard to access. Satellite data can be an invaluable source of information for those data-scarce areas. The business model is to sell "extreme precipitation" data that can be used for flood modelling. Unfortunately, after a year I still haven't made a single sale. I've tried various ways of…

    2023 · xrain.info · its alternatives →

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    Dynamic weather effects for macos

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    The first weather simulator on the web

    2016 · rainyscope.com · its alternatives →

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    Drape▲88

    A fabric design and simulation tool

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    I was walking around New York last month during some light rain and noticed about half the people had umbrellas open. When the rain picked up a few minutes later, that number jumped closer to 80%. It got me thinking it'd be cool to track this somehow, so I built a website! I am taking a sidewalk livestream, feeding it into a YOLO model for people tracking, then sending a frame of each detected person to Gemini 2.0 Flash, which returns structured JSON about each person's clothing and if they're holding an umbrella. I also had fun making the site look like a TV weather channel. I showed some…

    2025 · walzr.com · its alternatives →

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    Build responsive websites and communities without code

    2014 · rainmakerdigital.com · its alternatives →

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    Create a cozy atmosphere for sleeping or studying

    2021 · rainyscope.com · its alternatives →

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