IconCloak — a clean desktop in one click

Cloak

Your desktop, out of sight

Hide every icon on your desktop, and your widgets too, with one click. Your files never move or change. One more click and they're back. It uses the switch built into macOS, so it's instant and works with Stage Manager.

Present

A clean backdrop, behind your windows

One click hides your icons and widgets and puts up a plain colour, a green screen, or your own picture — a branded background for client calls, say. Hide your other apps too if you like. When you're done, everything goes back exactly as it was. Your real wallpaper is never touched.

Sweep

Clutter, swept into tidy folders

One click moves everything on your desktop into a dated folder. Nothing is deleted, and Undo puts it all back. Turn on automatic filing and new screenshots sort themselves into monthly folders.

Always one click away

IconCloak lives in your menu bar, with a keyboard shortcut for everything.

⌃⌥⌘H

Hide or show your desktop icons

⌃⌥⌘P

Start or stop presenting

⌃⌥⌘B

Show or hide your backdrop

Two versions

IconCloak Lite · Free

One window, one button: hide or show your desktop icons. Nothing else to learn.

IconCloak · Pay once

Everything on this page: Cloak with widgets, Present with your own backdrops, Sweep, and menu bar shortcuts.

The promises it keeps

Nothing leaves your Mac. No account, no servers, no analytics, no tracking. It never connects to the internet.
Nothing is deleted. Sweep only moves things, and Undo puts them back.
Pay once. No ads and no subscription. Or start with IconCloak Lite, which is free.

Requires macOS 12 or later. New to IconCloak? Read the user guide.