Snow that piles up on your Windows windows
The maker built a Windows app with a lot of help from Claude Code where snow settles on window edges and the taskbar and falls off when a window is dragged or shaken.
Credits
- Reddit poster Lol99-Meier Source ↗
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The full story
Snowpane is a Windows 10 and 11 app that makes falling snow appear in front of everything on screen, with depth: large soft flakes close up, small bluish ones far away, and some falling behind windows. Snow slowly settles on the top edges of windows and the taskbar, and breaks off in clumps when a window is dragged or shaken. Clicks pass straight through.
The maker built it with a lot of help from Claude Code because existing snow apps looked like flat white dots. It pauses in fullscreen games, has a battery saving mode and an optional natural weather mode with showers and turning wind. The maker had tested it on only one PC.
It had been in the Microsoft Store for about ten days, with over 100 installs. It is free; the natural weather mode is marked Pro and free for now.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I made a Windows app where the snow actually piles up on your windows – and falls off when you drag Reddit poster: Lol99-MeierPosted
The maker's post in r/SideProject asking for feedback.
- The project: apps.microsoft.com
The app's Microsoft Store listing.