Keep the whole picture.
Panoramas stay wide. Portraits stay tall. Arras follows your photo’s proportions, not a fixed widget grid.
A native macOS photo widget.
Your photos.
Not squares.
Arras is a free, native Mac photo widget that keeps each image’s original aspect ratio. Your photos, without forced cropping. Their shape, their place, your desktop.
Download Arras ↙Open source · No account · Photos stored locally
macOS 14 or later · Published download for Apple Silicon and Intel
Security & Privacy →First time installing? Read this first →
Built around the picture
The photo decides
the shape.
Most widgets start with a box. Arras starts with your image. It’s a native macOS tool for the little things that make a desktop feel like yours—without an account, a subscription, or telemetry.
Find its place.
Arrange photos below desktop icons, above them, or over your windows. Move and resize without stealing focus from your work.
Make it yours.
Adjust the frame, shadow, opacity, and tilt. Keep it quiet or make it personal. Each photo gets its own treatment.
Let it change.
Rotate a collection of images in one widget, or bring GIFs and APNGs to your desktop.
Yours to use. Yours to inspect.
A little room
for your photos.
No subscription. No account. No app telemetry.
Just a small native app, and your desktop.
v2.4.9 · 775 GitHub asset downloads
Release notes ↗Install Arras
- Download the Arras DMG using this website’s button or the official yashashwi-s/Arras GitHub Release.
- Open the DMG and drag Arras into Applications.
- Open Arras from Applications. Its controls live in your menu bar.
- The current Arras build is not notarized by Apple, so macOS may show its standard Gatekeeper verification message on first launch. Choose System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, confirm with your password or Touch ID if requested, then choose Open.
FAQs & getting started →
Adding photos, arranging your desktop, and the details that matter.
Security & Privacy →
Permissions, local storage, updates, and official downloads.