Free for Mac

A rug for your desktop.

Tassel lays a real, physically simulated rug across your Mac's desktop. Grab it anywhere and drag it: it lifts, wrinkles and pivots the way a heavy rug does. Fold a corner over and it stays folded.

Coming soon to theMac App Store

Free · macOS 14 or later

The Arraiolos rug from Portugal, cream with a navy field and red carnations, one corner folded back to show its underside

Why Tassel

It does nothing useful at all.

That is the point. Tassel is a toy, something to smile at between windows. The rug lies below your windows and above your icons, and it stays exactly as you leave it. Leave it crumpled and it is still crumpled tomorrow.

Rugs from around the world

Nine famous rugs, drawn knot by knot.

  • The Arraiolos rug: cream with a navy field, red carnations and blue tulips

    Arraiolos

    Portugal. Wool stitched on jute, with carnations, tulips and birds.

  • The Heriz rug: a navy medallion on a brick red field

    Heriz

    Iran. A bold angular medallion on brick red.

  • The Bukhara rug: rows of octagonal guls on deep red

    Bukhara

    Turkmenistan. Rows of Tekke guls on deep madder.

  • The Kazak rug: star medallions in bold village colours

    Kazak

    Caucasus. Star medallions and village motifs.

  • The Kilim rug: hooked lozenges in red, indigo and saffron

    Kilim

    Türkiye. Hooked lozenges in madder, indigo and saffron.

  • The Navajo rug: a serrated diamond on Ganado red

    Navajo

    Diné Nation, USA. A Ganado Red serrated diamond.

  • The Zapotec rug: an eye-of-god diamond between stepped frets

    Zapotec

    Oaxaca, Mexico. An eye-of-god diamond between stepped frets.

  • The Beni Ourain rug: ivory shag with a dark hand-drawn lattice

    Beni Ourain

    Morocco. Thick ivory shag with a hand-drawn lattice.

  • The Trasmatta rug: a striped rag runner woven from old fabric

    Trasmatta

    Sweden. A rag runner woven from old fabric.

Turn it over

Fold a corner and see the back.

  • The Heriz rug with a corner folded back, showing the knotted design on its underside

    Every knot showing

    Knotted rugs show their knots: the same design on the back, every knot showing through. This is the Heriz.

  • The Kilim rug with a corner folded back, showing the same pattern on its underside

    The same on both sides

    Flatweaves have no wrong side, so the back is the front again. This is the Kilim.

  • The Arraiolos rug with a corner folded back, showing a grey rubber backing

    Anti-slip rubber

    Or give any rug a grey rubber backing. Pictures you add get it by default.

  • The Arraiolos rug with a corner folded back, showing a jute canvas backing

    Jute canvas

    Or a plain jute canvas back, for any rug.

Make it yours

Your rug, the way you like it.

  • Size

    From a bath mat to a living-room rug.

  • Fabric weight

    Light, normal or heavy fabric.

  • Tassels

    Fringe on both ends, or a clean edge. On or off.

  • A breeze

    Air from any corner, from a gentle flutter to a gust that heaps it up.

  • Smooth or rumpled

    Smooth it out when you let go, or leave every wrinkle where it falls.

  • Your own picture

    Drop a picture onto the rug and it is woven into a rug too.

Gentle on your Mac

A still rug costs nothing.

When the rug is still, Tassel uses no CPU and no GPU at all. It sits below your windows and above your icons, and clicks pass straight through everywhere the rug is not. With the breeze on, the rug keeps moving, so it uses a little.

The Golden Arraiolos, one of the supporter rugs

Free, with a way to say thanks

Free. No ads, no tracking, no account.

Every world rug and every setting is free. If Tassel made you smile, you can help Nubisco, a small studio in Portugal, keep making small, good things.

  • Supporter, $2.99 once

    Unlocks the supporter rugs: a Golden Arraiolos, a Nordic Christmas rug and every supporter rug we add later, plus as many of your own pictures as you like (the first one is free). Restorable on your Apple Account, and shared with your family through Family Sharing.

  • Tips, from $0.99

    A small, big or huge thanks, at $0.99, $2.99 or $9.99. Tips unlock nothing. They just say thanks.

System requirements

macOS
14 Sonoma or later
Display
The rug lies on your main display
Price
Free, with optional in-app purchases
Privacy
Data Not Collected

Made by Nubisco in Portugal.

Tassel is a small, free thing from Nubisco, an independent software studio. Questions, ideas, a rug you would love to see on your desktop: we would like to hear them.

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