saragordic/window-sweaters
A macOS menu-bar app that dresses your windows in knitted borders.
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A little Mac app I made to give my windows sweaters. 🧶 Knitted borders, colours inspired by your favourite apps, and a cosier desktop. You can just send this repo to your coding agent and ask it to install Window Sweaters for you: Or install it yourself with Homebrew: Then open Window Sweaters from your Applications folder. You can also grab the latest ZIP from Releases, unzip it, and drag Window Sweaters.app into Applications. If macOS blocks it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway after trying to launch it. The app isn't notarized by Apple yet. Apple's instructions explain this step. Click the yarn icon in your menu bar to change the style, pattern, border width, and stitch size. You can also pause the sweaters or quit from there. To leave an app bare, open Apps and untick it. Its windows lose their sweater straight away,…
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- Window Sweaters
- Get it
- Make yourself cosy
- The sweaters
- A little work in progress
- Build it yourself
- Your own colourways
- Taking it off
- Contributing
- Credits and license
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What this repository does
A macOS menu-bar app that dresses your windows in knitted borders.
Repository facts
- Owner
- saragordic
- Primary language
- C
- Stars
- 669
- Forks
- 20
- Open issues + pull requests
- 6
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-15T01:51:36.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-21T02:45:39.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: desktop-customization, knitting, macos, macos-app, menubar, menubar-app, objective-c, window-management
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