Clingy

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Everything in Clingy happens from the 🧲 icon in your menu bar.

Common questions

Where did my desktop icons go?

They are still there, behind Clingy's layer. Click 🧲 → Hide Magnets to see them, and Show Magnets to bring the board back.

How do I make a magnet from a photo?

Choose 🧲 → Make Magnets from Images and pick a picture. Clingy lifts the subject and adds it to Your Magnets in the Market. You can also choose a watch folder; pictures dropped there become magnets automatically.

For a polaroid, choose 🧲 → Polaroid from Photo.

I added a word kit and now there are words everywhere

Right-click any word tile and choose Remove Unused Word Tiles. It removes only the ones you never moved, so the sentence you arranged stays. The same works for letters, and 🧲 → Remove has the full list with counts.

Can I select several magnets at once?

Click one to select it, then Shift-click or ⌘-click to add more. Press Delete to remove them all, or Esc to deselect.

Nothing lines up

🧲 → Arrange has Straighten All and Tidy Up. Snap to Grid is on by default so magnets line up as you drop them.

How do the clock, calendar and timer work?

Add them from 🧲 → New…, under “Keeps itself up to date”. The clock and calendar follow your Mac. Click a to-do line or a habit circle to tick it. Click the tomato to start and stop the timer. Right-click the countdown to set its date.

How do I share my desktop?

🧲 → Share My Fridge makes a picture, or a three second video where everything wobbles and falls. Copy it, save it, or send it straight on.

Does Clingy slow my Mac down?

It draws a single transparent layer above the desktop wallpaper and does nothing while you are not touching it. There is no background syncing; the only network call it ever makes is the Clingy Pro purchase check.

How do I uninstall it?

Quit from 🧲 → Quit Clingy and move the app to the Trash. macOS may keep your saved board data in Clingy's app container.