Ennui
An ambient scene viewer for macOS
29 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.zip
1.1MB · macOS 26.0 Tahoe · Apple Silicon
Requires a Mac with an M-series chip
To install:
1. Download and unzip
2. Drag Ennui.app to your 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
Cel-Shaded Rainy Day
Celestial Scroll Hall
Conservatory
Cosmic Drift
Deep Ocean
Desert Starscape
Enchanted Archives
Floating Kingdom
Forgotten Library
Greeting the Day
Jeonju Night
Late Night Rerun
Lush Ruins
Medieval Village
Minnesota Small Town
Mystify
Night Train
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.