Replace Chrome's new tab page with macOS's aerial screensaver videos and a small set of calm, optional widgets. macOS is not required — videos are streamed from Apple's CDN and play in any platform that runs Chrome.
- 🎥 156 aerial videos in 4K SDR, sourced from Apple's current macOS catalog (Landscapes, Cities, Underwater, Space, and more).
- 🌤️ Live weather — current temperature, "feels like", 3-day forecast, sunrise/sunset, UV, wind, air quality. Powered by Open-Meteo, no API key required.
- 📌 Top sites widget pulled from Chrome's built-in list (no history permission needed).
- 💬 Random quotes from a curated 500-entry public-domain set.
- 🧘 Zen mode — fullscreen the video with optional ambient music.
- 🔤 4 languages — English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語.
Install from Chrome Web Store.
Building from source or contributing? See DEVELOPMENT.md.
Two options. Each has a built-in step-by-step guide inside Macify's settings page; this section just summarises.
Streams directly from sylvan.apple.com. Chrome may not trust Apple's certificate by default; two ways to fix it:
Option A — Reverse proxy (default on, easiest). Video requests are routed through a hosted Cloudflare Worker that handles the certificate dance. Zero local setup. Convenient but should not be relied on long-term — set up local hosting or trust the cert when possible.
Option B — Trust Apple's cert manually (cleanest). Visit https://sylvan.apple.com once in Chrome. You'll see a security warning — click "Advanced", then "Proceed to sylvan.apple.com (unsafe)". Chrome remembers the trust and direct connection works thereafter.
Best performance, zero third-party dependency. One command configures macOS's built-in Apache to serve your local Aerial videos at http://localhost:18000/videos/:
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jason5ng32/Macify/main/scripts/local-server/setup.sh)Asks for your password once (sudo). Then in Macify's settings, switch the source to Local server.
To uninstall:
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jason5ng32/Macify/main/scripts/local-server/uninstall.sh)The local server needs the videos on disk first. Two ways:
Through System Settings. Open System Settings → Screen Saver → Aerial. Click each video you want (each is 500MB–1GB). Tedious for the full 156-video catalog but no extras needed.
One-line batch downloader. Macify includes a Python downloader that pulls the full Aerial catalog (or a subset) directly from Apple's CDN, with progress bars, resume support, and category/random/limit filters:
bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jason5ng32/Macify/main/scripts/aerial_downloader/install.sh)Copy the command, paste it in Terminal, and follow the on-screen prompts. The full catalog is ~80–150 GB; the script reports the estimated size and your free disk space before asking for confirmation, so you can safely back out.
Macify requests these permissions, all non-sensitive:
| Permission | Used for |
|---|---|
storage |
Persist user preferences and cache weather data. |
topSites |
Read Chrome's most-visited list for the Top Sites widget. |
favicon |
Show favicons next to Top Sites entries (uses Chrome's built-in cache; no external network). |
idle |
Track when the user is away from the computer to determine showing Zen mode notification or not. |
No history permission. No host permissions for arbitrary sites.
MIT. See LICENSE.
Created by Jason Ng, Dofy, Setilis. Aerial videos are © Apple Inc.