macOS · Screensaver
Fold Clock Screensaver
A clock behind frosted glass, for your Mac's screensaver.
When your Mac goes idle, your wallpaper stays. Then a sheet of dark frosted glass slides down from the top of the screen, softening everything behind it, and the time comes into focus through the glass. It's a small moment of motion that makes stepping away from your desk feel deliberate.
Choose the clock that fits your desk. Lock Screen sets the time large and centered, the way you're used to seeing it on your phone. Analog is a clean dial with a sweeping orange second hand. Flip brings back the split-flap cards, bold and easy to read across a room. Words tells you it's twenty past nine.
Then pick the type. Six typefaces, from a hairline Ultralight to SF Rounded, New York and SF Mono, in 12 or 24-hour time, with or without the date.
The background doesn't just sit there. Drift slowly pans and zooms your wallpaper behind the glass. Glow keeps it still while soft areas of light and shade wander across it. Set either one from subtle to strong, or turn motion off. Prefer no wallpaper at all? Switch to pure black, the lightest option on power.
Running more than one display? The glass covers every screen, and the clock stays on your main display, or shows on all of them if you'd like.
Fold Clock is a real macOS screensaver, not an app running on top of your desktop. It installs with a double-click, lives in System Settings next to Apple's own screensavers, and doesn't keep your Mac awake or stop it from sleeping. No account, no subscription, and nothing leaves your Mac.
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Universal — runs on Apple Silicon and Intel.
Fold Clock Screensaver on your Mac.
The fold
- Dark frosted glass slides down over your own wallpaper when the screensaver starts
- The clock comes into focus through the glass
- Uses whatever wallpaper you already have, on every display
Four clock styles
- Lock Screen: large, centered time, with an optional date
- Analog: a minimal dial with a sweeping second hand
- Flip: bold split-flap cards that flip each minute
- Words: the time in plain English, to the nearest five minutes
Six typefaces
- SF Pro Ultralight, SF Pro Thin, SF Pro, SF Rounded, New York and SF Mono
- 12 or 24-hour time
- Show or hide the date
Background motion
- Drift: a slow pan and zoom of your wallpaper behind the glass
- Glow: soft light and shade moving across a still background
- Subtle, Medium or Strong, or off
Backgrounds and displays
- Your wallpaper behind frosted glass, or pure black with no background motion running
- The glass covers every display
- Show the clock on your main display only, or on all of them
A real screensaver
- Installs with a double-click and appears in System Settings
- All settings live in System Settings → Screen Saver → Options
- Doesn't keep your Mac awake or block sleep; your lock screen and password work as usual
- Light on power: background motion only runs on the wallpaper background, and Black uses almost none
Setting it up
- Double-click Fold Clock.saver and choose to install it, then pick Fold Clock under Other in System Settings → Wallpaper → Screen Saver
- Options takes a couple of seconds to open; macOS loads the settings panel separately
- macOS doesn't let screensavers read wallpapers stored on external drives or in your Desktop, Documents or Downloads folders. If yours is there, click Allow Access in Options and choose its folder, once. Wallpapers that come with macOS, and anything in Pictures, just work
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Universal — runs on Apple Silicon and Intel.