LilHide sits in your menu bar. Click it and every icon on your desktop disappears. Click again and they're back, exactly where you left them — nothing moved, nothing deleted.
Same wallpaper. Same files. One click apart.
Left-click the menu bar icon to hide, click again to show.
Hit ⌃⌥⌘H from any app, without reaching for the mouse.
Two monitors, three, mixed resolutions — all of them clear at once, and it follows your Spaces.
No Screen Recording, no Accessibility, no controlling other apps.
The desktop still looks like your desktop. Just empty.
Launch at login, hide at launch, double-click to reveal, click-through.
Your files are never touched. They're covered, not moved.
LilHide covers your icons with a copy of your wallpaper. macOS keeps wallpapers where a sandboxed app can't read them, so you point at the file once. It's the only file LilHide ever reads.
Right-click the menu bar icon for everything else — the shortcut, launch at login, and whether clicks should pass through to the desktop while your icons are hidden.
One dollar. That's the whole pricing page.
macOS 13+ · Apple silicon & Intel
No subscription. No in-app purchases.
Yes. LilHide never moves, renames, deletes or reads your desktop files. It draws a copy of your wallpaper over them. Quit the app and everything is exactly where it was.
Yes — every connected display is covered at the same time, at whatever resolution and scale each one runs. It also follows you between Spaces, and picks up displays you plug in while icons are hidden.
Because it refuses to take a screenshot of your Mac to get one. Reading the image you point it at is the honest way to do this, and it needs your permission exactly once.
Turn on Allow Clicks on Desktop and your clicks pass straight through to Finder. The trade-off is that double-click-to-reveal stops working, since those clicks now belong to Finder.
They sit on the same layer as your icons, so they're hidden too. There's currently no way to keep one without the other.
Everything you used is here: the menu bar toggle, the shortcut, launch at login. What's different is that LilHide never asks for Screen Recording, and its menu bar icon actually adapts to dark mode.