Ennui

36 procedural scenes rendered at 60fps. Northern lights over frozen lakes. Paper lanterns carrying kind messages into dusk. A Japanese neighbourhood in evening rain. A salt lamp breathing in a quiet room.

No accounts. No data collection. No onboarding. You watch, you breathe, you tap sometimes. It is an anti-doomscroll tool.

Download Ennui.dmg

1.6MB · macOS 26.0 Tahoe · Apple Silicon

Requires a Mac with an M-series chip

To install:
1. Open the DMG
2. Drag Ennui.app to the Applications folder
3. Right-click Ennui.app → Open (first launch only)
4. macOS may warn it's from an unidentified developer — click Open

Or from Terminal:
xattr -cr /Applications/Ennui.app && open /Applications/Ennui.app

Scenes

Ancient Ruins
Art Deco LA
Aurora Borealis
Captain Star
Cel-Shaded Rainy Day
Celestial Scroll Hall
Conservatory
Cosmic Drift
Deep Ocean
Desert Starscape
Enchanted Archives
Floating Kingdom
Forgotten Library
Gouraud Solar System
Greeting the Day
Jeonju Night
Jeonju Night 3D
Late Night Rerun
Late Night Rerun 3D
Lush Ruins
Medieval Village
Medieval Village 3D
Midnight Motel
Minnesota Small Town
Mystify
Night Train
Nonsense & Lullabies
Ontario Countryside
Paper Lantern Festival
Quiet Meal
Retro Garden
Retro PS1
Salt Lamp
Shimizu Evening
Urban Dreamscape
Voyager Nebula

Controls

← → Previous / next scene
Space Show scene picker
H Toggle haiku overlay
? About
Click Scene-specific interaction
Hover near bottom Show picker

Privacy

Ennui collects no data whatsoever. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reports, no network requests, no cookies, no accounts. The app requires no internet connection and makes no outbound connections of any kind.

Your usage is entirely private. There is nothing to opt out of because there is nothing to opt into.