macOS menu-bar utility · free

Hide your desktop icons,
one click away.

My Clean Desk lives in your menu bar and clears a cluttered desktop the moment you need a clean screen for a screen share, a screenshot, or just some calm. Your files are never moved or deleted.

Download for macOS

Free macOS 13+ Apple silicon & Intel No account, no tracking

Try it. This demo works like the real app.

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Click the eye in the menu bar to open the menu, just like the real app.

Before

A clean screen, the second you need it.

One click hides every desktop icon. One click brings them back. That’s the whole app.

A cluttered real macOS desktop: columns of files and folders scattered across the wallpaper, with the My Clean Desk menu open in the menu bar reading that desktop icons are visible.

After. One click.

Your files are safe.

Nothing is moved, renamed, or deleted. macOS just stops drawing the icons until you bring them back. Your wallpaper, widgets, and Stage Manager are unaffected.

The same desktop after one click: every icon gone, the wallpaper clean, the menu now reading that desktop icons are hidden.

What you get.

Lives in the menu bar. No Dock icon, no windows, no background timers.
Native on every Mac. One tiny SwiftUI app, universal for Apple silicon and Intel.
macOS 13 and up. Launches at login if you want it to.
Free. No account, no ads, no tracking. It only touches the network to check for updates.
It flips one Finder setting. Finder’s own desktop-icon preference, nothing else.
Finder restarts. It only reads that setting at startup, so the desktop blinks once and Finder windows reopen.

Free

It’s free. Keep it.

Notarized, universal, macOS 13 or later. Download it, unlock once with a free license, done.

Download for macOS See the features

Free macOS 13+ Apple silicon & Intel No account, no tracking

Built by one independent developer. No investors, no ads, no upsells, a small, focused tool made with care. Thanks for trying it.

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