a cozy desktop game for macOS

A little sheep farm that lives on your desktop.

Hand-painted sheep graze, play, sleep and grow wool behind your app windows. You look after them between emails, shear them, trade the wool and build a tiny village.

Mac App StoreGet Woolly Desk Watch the farm

macOS 14 or laterLives in the menu barReal weather & seasons

click the cloud for night

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sheep wander behind your windows. click one!

watch it live

Your desktop, but with grass

This little window runs the farm with the game's own sprites. Make it rain, turn the night on, or click a sheep to say hello.

Woolly Desk

sheep graze, wander and nap · at night they sleep and the lanterns come on

what happens on the farm

Small lives, slow days

Sheep with their own lives

They get hungry and thirsty, play tag, make friends, pair up, have lambs and grow old. Each one has a personality: playful, shy, curious, calm, social or independent.

Real weather and seasons

Rain fills the troughs, storms send the flock to the barn, autumn leaves pile up and snow drifts in winter. The farm follows the weather where you live.

Day and night with your clock

Dusk fades in around your real sunset. Lanterns and windows glow, fireflies come out and the sheep go to sleep.

Shear, trade, build

Shear full fleeces, sell the wool at the trading post, mow hay with a scythe and fence in your pens. Gates open with a click.

Tidy up with real tools

Your pointer turns into a broom or a snow shovel. Sweep leaves away with a whoosh and watch them fly.

Never in your way

The farm sits below your windows. Clicks pass through to your files and icons, except on sheep, gates and buildings.

drag the lamp

Sunset happens when yours does

The same farm at night, with lit windows and fireflies

daynight

meet the flock

Five fleeces, one lamb, lots of opinions

Buy young sheep in the colour you like. Dark fleeces give dark wool, and dark wool sells for more.

just sheared

growing back

full and fluffy, ready to shear

four seasons

The farm changes with the calendar

grab the broom

Leaves pile up. Snow drifts in.

In autumn and winter the farm gets messy, and grass under leaves or snow cannot grow. Your pointer turns into a broom or a snow shovel: hold and drag across the farm to clean it.

0 piles left

hold and drag to sweep

grow a tiny village

Every bag of wool brings a new house closer

Collect wool to unlock new buildings in the shop. Some are useful, some are just lovely. All of them light up at night: try it.

winter holidays

Deck the farm

The shop has a Holiday tab: a Christmas tree with presents, light garlands, knitted stockings, door wreaths, cosy sweaters for your sheep and stars that hang under your menu bar. Everything glows at night. Turn the lights on.

three wreaths for the doors: fir, eucalyptus and orange

A sweater for every sheep

Six knitted colours. Click a sheep to try the next one.

Decorate your desktop too

Two touches that live outside the farm: stars on threads under your menu bar, and farm-style icons for the folders on your desktop.

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Notes

hang the stars
~~wrap presents~~
knit a sweater for Clover

Hanging stars

On the Holiday tab of the shop. They sway a little and glow at night.

Farm folders

Turn them on in Settings → Desktop. Folders with their own custom icon stay as they are.

How to use them

A pale, see-through sheep floating up like a cloud

gentle by design

No sudden losses. No stress.

Sheep never fall ill while your Mac is closed. Health drops slowly and only after long neglect, so a busy week is fine. When a very old sheep's time comes, it turns into a soft little cloud that floats up over the farm, and its name stays in your Memories.