Falling Hearts For Mac

Falling Hearts is a simple application designed to bring a romantic atmosphere on your Mac’s desktop. The app is ideal for Valentine’s Day, or for whenever you feel sentimental and need to express it.

Falling Hearts comes as a status bar animation, and you must activate its panel to start the heart fall animation. If you want to skip all that, you can choose to add the utility to the login items list. After the initial setup, you will be meet by cute falling hearts each time you start your Mac.

Worth mentioning is that Falling Hearts packs various customization options and 20 different hearts designs. To preview all the models you must select each entry in the Falling Hearts Preferences while making sure the animation effect is active.

Falling Hearts enables you to see the hearts only as they fall down your screen, but you might want to experiment with all the 20 hearts designs before deciding on which you want to settle.

Moreover, Falling Hearts allows you to adjust the falling speed, the amount of hearts generated, and their size. The Falling Hearts animation can also rotate the hearts, or you can choose to incorporate a wind effect.

In terms or resources usage, on a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with 6GB RAM, Falling Hearts needed about 11% of the CPU power.

During our test, the initial RAM requirements of the Falling Hearts app have doubled in less than 10 minutes to about 70MB and continued to go up. As a result, keeping an eye on the RAM consumption is advisable.

To sum up, Falling Hearts features a sweet, customizable animation that can put a romantic mood on your Mac's screen, but keeping the app running for a long time might generate problems related to the steadily growing RAM consumption.