Etch puts real glass lettering on your Mac wallpaper. It bends the desktop behind it and catches the light.
One payment. Yours for good, on up to 5 of your Macs.
Etch samples your wallpaper, bends it through the shape of the letters, and lights it. A blur can only ever look flat.
It never floats over your apps, never takes a click, and never shows up in ⌘-Tab.
Show the time, the date, your battery, uptime, free space, or a quote that changes every day.
Under 0.1% CPU. It wakes on the minute only when something on screen changes.
Hover, grab the handle, drop it. It remembers the spot on each display.
Three looks and ten dials: thickness, frost, bend, glow and more.
| Free | Pro, $8 | |
| Glass rendering, every control | Yes | Yes |
| Widgets on screen | 1 | Up to 8 |
| Fonts | 3 | All 9 |
| Live data and daily quotes | No | Yes |
curl -fsSL https://etchapp.cc/install.sh | bash
A few seconds later the glass is on your desktop, and Etch is in your Dock for settings. macOS 13 or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel. Read the installer before you run it. It is short.
Unlock Pro: buy a key, open Etch, paste the key under Licence and click Activate.
Why Terminal, and not a download?A downloaded app must be approved by Apple to open without warnings. The one-line install skips that step and shows no warnings. The script only puts two apps in your Applications folder and starts the widget.
What does it collect?Nothing. Etch has no analytics and no account. It goes online once, to check a Pro key with the shop when you activate it.
How do I remove it?Run curl -fsSL https://etchapp.cc/uninstall.sh | bash.
It moves Etch to the Trash.
Refunds?Within 14 days, for any reason. Reply to your receipt email.
Updates?Run the install line again. Your text, positions and licence stay.