Desk Rug for MacOS
A real cloth-physics rug for your Mac desktop — sweep the icons under it, restore them with one key
What is Desk Rug for MacOS?
Desk Rug is a native macOS app that puts a real cloth rug on your desktop — not a static picture, but a live fabric simulation. Grab it by any edge, drag it, fold it, drop it, and watch it settle into wrinkles like actual cloth.
The point is the mess. Before every screen share, video call or product demo, your desktop is the first thing the other side sees. With one global hotkey, Desk Rug sweeps your icons underneath the rug into a neat pile — files are genuinely moved via Finder, nothing is deleted — and restores them to their exact spots around the edge the moment you're done.
Under the hood it is a small, fast Swift app: a tighter cloth solver that stays stable at 60 fps, quick startup and low CPU use, 6 rugs and 6 floors with your own images supported, a per-day schedule that tidies while you're away, profiles that follow each Space, optional soft cloth sounds, and 13 interface languages.
It runs entirely on your Mac. No accounts, no analytics, no network calls — your files and desktop never leave the machine.
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