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Deckle for Mac

Lays a paper-grain texture over the screen, making reading and writing feel like paper instead of glass.

By Kelvanic. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Deckle at a glance

Version
2.0.0
Released
30 September 2026
Download size
2.3 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Utilities
Developer
Kelvanic
GitHub stars
27

About Deckle

Paper-grain texture overlay for macOS — make your screen feel like paper

Screenshots

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How to install Deckle on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Deckle and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 2.0.0 from Kelvanic's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Deckle show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Deckle-2.0.0.dmg (2.3 MB).

What is new in Deckle 2.0.0

## What's Changed
* Harden updater, rendering, settings and accessibility by @YellowFoxH4XOR in https://github.com/YellowFoxH4XOR/deckle/pull/53
* Make README and all docs match the code exactly by @YellowFoxH4XOR in https://github.com/YellowFoxH4XOR/deckle/pull/54
* feat: add Echo companion and studio-wide visual pass by @YellowFoxH4XOR in https://github.com/YellowFoxH4XOR/deckle/pull/55
* perf: cut renderer memory footprint by @YellowFoxH4XOR in https://github.com/YellowFoxH4XOR/deckle/pull/56
* feat: paper-cut desktop pets with seeded habits by @YellowFoxH4XOR in https://github.com/YellowFoxH4XOR/deckle/pull/57
* chore: release Deckle 2.0.0 by @YellowFoxH4XOR in https://github.com/YellowFoxH4XOR/deckle/pull/58
* fix: build on the Xcode 15.4 release toolchain by @YellowFoxH4XOR in https://github.com/YellowFoxH4XOR/deckle/pull/60

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/YellowFoxH4XOR/deckle/compare/v1.9.0...v2.0.0

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