Pliim For Mac

Pliim is a free and open source macOS utility designed to make it as straightforward and fast as possible to hide all the icons on your Mac's desktop, and to make sure that you turn off distractions such as alerts and mute playing audio content.

Moreover, Pliim features a minimalist and status bar-based user interface which allows you to toggle on or off all the elements you want to be hidden or disabled.

Once launched on your Mac, Pliim will automatically add a menu bar item of its own which gives you access to its interface when clicked and to the Preferences dialog via the right-click context menu.

From Pliim's status bar, you can enable the "Hide desktop icons" and the "Disable notifications," as well as configure it to hide the active apps, mute the speakers or headphones, and change the wallpaper.

If you decide to set up Pliim to automatically change your desktop wallpaper when enabling its "Presentation mode," you can also select a wallpaper of your choice from the Preferences dialog, accessible via its menu bar item's right-click contextual menu, as already mentioned above.

From the Preferences window, you can also configure Pliim to start on login, to have it always one click away in your menu bar when you need to get rid of diversions and clean your desktop with a single mouse click.

Regarding the features that it still lacks, Pliim needs to provide its users with a way to also select other OS elements such as the menu bar and the dock for thoroughly cleaning the desktop, as well as to disable the system screensaver.

Pliim would benefit from having support for global keyboard shortcuts, either for activating the Presentation mode or for separately enabling Presentation mode's options.

In a nutshell, having Pliim installed on your Mac will make it a lot easier to have a virtually clean desktop at all times, as well as have the tools needed to create pristine desktop screenshots, without all the documents and icons on your desktop standing in the way.

Also, Pliim can help you create a distraction-free environment by disabling output audio sources and system notifications to help you focus easier on the task at hand.