Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Neo Matrix Rain
The Matrix digital rain screensaver for macOS
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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Fullscreen digital rain for your browser
Jan 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · pluvoir.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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Weather Screen▲113Bring Real-time Weather Effects to your Mac Screen
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Raindrop for Mac▲155Mac app for bookmarking and reading it later
2015 · blog.raindrop.io · its alternatives →
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Bluesky firehose visualized in a Matrix-style rain
2024 · simone.computer · its alternatives →
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Rainpaper▲88Live wallpaper with simulated rain and reddit backgrounds
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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RadianceKit▲95Turn photos into 3D Gaussian Splats on your Mac
Jun 2026 · radiancekit.de · its alternatives →
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So, I was about 11 years old and just got my first Mac, a IIsi, and of course everyone had AfterDark, but there was this other screensaver program called "Dark Side of the Mac". And within it was, I think now, the most beautiful screensaver ever written. It was called Kaos. Kaos would take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds to slowly iterate on a single image, starting with a few colored dots and growing into webs within webs of algorithmic beauty. I'm not sure how Tom Dowdy actually wrote the program. What I've done here is to try to reverse engineer how it might have worked, but to animate it…
2025 · thestrikeagency.com · its alternatives →
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Solace▲171macOS gives you three appearance options: Light, Dark, or Auto. Auto follows sunset, which is a surprisingly blunt heuristic. It doesn't account for season (dark mode at 3:50pm in December, light mode at 9pm in June), and it has zero awareness of actual conditions outside. Overcast and dark at 2pm? Your Mac doesn't care. The deeper problem is that macOS treats appearance, wallpaper, and colour temperature as unrelated settings. You end up stitching together separate tools that don't know about each other, or you just live with the defaults and accept the friction. Solace tries to solve this…
Feb 2026 · theodorehq.com · its alternatives →
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Latest commits from GitHub visualized Matrix-style
2016 · winterbe.github.io · its alternatives →
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Rainy Skies 2.0▲146Your weather app, now with Radar and Apple Watch App
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Tinyclouds▲217An adorable new weather app for iPhone and iPad
2018 · tinyclouds.co · its alternatives →
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Ultaa Chaata▲139An inverted umbrella to convert rain water to potable water
2017 · its alternatives →
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Mac Weather app with Photorealistic animations
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I've been working on something I've been thinking for long time but since I had no experience with macOS screen savers I always posponed. Now thanks to Claude I was able to create a screensaver that scroll ANSI files while your computer is idle. It allow to use local ANS files or packs directly from 16colo.rs. Repo: https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LiquidFetch▲108LiquidFetch gives you a clean, visual overview of your Mac. Unlike tools like neofetch or fastfetch, LiquidFetch presents your setup info in a graphical interface. It's a 100% native macOS app. Cost: Free. Download: https://www.apptorium.com/liquidfetch or on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/liquidfetch/id6757637185?mt=12
Jan 2026 · apptorium.com · its alternatives →
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Live rain & lightning animations for your Mac desktop
Jan 2026 · cybertech44.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Display websites through your screensaver
2015 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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