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Stick Software makes fun, top-quality applications and games for Mac OS X. Most of Stick Software's products are shareware, which means they are free to download and try, but payment is required after a period of trial usage. Payment is easy; just click on a payment link (Kagi or PayPal) next to a product below. For more details, see our Registration page.

For information on Universal builds of our apps, AppleScript support in our apps, localization of our products, developer-oriented products from Stick Software, or old releases and unsupported products, just click the appropriate link. If you have already registered a product, and you need customer support, please visit our Support page.

Happy downloading, and thanks for supporting shareware!





Shareware Sampler:  All of our shareware in one download

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The Stick Software Shareware Sampler always contains the latest versions of all of Stick Software's shareware products: PhotoReviewer, Eyeballs, Fracture, Aquatint, Constrictor, Solarian II, Trisection, Measles, BigFoot, and Jiggler. (Ephemera, a freeware photo gallery screensaver, is not included due to its size; it may be downloaded separately from Ephemera's home page. PDF versions of all manuals are included. You even get some custom folder icons, and a lovely fractal image generated by Fracture. At about 17 MB, this download package is intended for people who have fast connections or who really want the works. Other users may wish to download the individual packages below, which do not include manuals and other frills (manuals are available on-line), and are much smaller.





Fracture 1.5:  A beautiful fractal screensaver

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Fracture is a screensaver for OS X that creates a wide variety of fractal images. (You can visit Stick Software's gallery to see some!) It is quite advanced for a screensaver — it will use multiple processors if you have them, will antialias its images, and can be controlled by the user while it is running. A desktop application version of Fracture will probably get written at some point, to give even more control to the user over the images and color schemes. [more...]


PhotoReviewer 2.1:  Fast image display & organization

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PhotoReviewer is a utility designed to help out with the flood of digital photographs folks are inundated with nowadays. It's the fastest way to review, sort, or just look at your photos. Full size or thumbnails, EXIF support, histograms, side-by-side comparison, sorting folders, direct camera import, bulk renaming... and did we mention it's fast? [more...]


Eyeballs 3.2:  Eyes that keep you company

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Eyeballs provides you with a pair of eyes that watch what you do (and if that sounds odd, well, they're a little hard to explain :->). They're quite friendly and nice, and very configurable; you can even make your own custom skins! [more...]


Constrictor 3.1:  Custom screen snapshots

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Constrictor is a screen snapshot utility for Mac OS X. It lets you position a frame over exactly the area you want to snap, and then lets you customize the snap image with effects like framing and feathering. It has considerable flexibility in saving, and can take snaps using hotkeys without interrupting your workflow. And it's scriptable, too! (Users on OS X 10.3.x or earlier will want Constrictor 2.3 instead.) [more...]


Jiggler 1.4:  No-Doz for your Mac

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Jiggler is a little freeware app that keeps your Mac awake. When you have some lengthy task for your computer, it's annoying to have to turn off your screensaver and turn off the sleep timer, just to turn it all back on again when you're done. Enter Jiggler. It jiggles your mouse to keep your computer awake. [more...]


Solarian II 1.1:  A classic Mac video game

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Solarian II is a classic Mac game, one of the first color games created after the new color Macs came out in 1988. It has now been ported to OS X (10.3 or later), so everybody who remembers playing it a decade ago can indulge in a little nostalgia! [more...]


Trisection 1.2:  A Tetris-style Mac game

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Trisection is a game for Mac OS X that was inspired by Tetris. You have to rotate and position the falling triangles to try to make areas that are all one color. It takes more thought than Tetris, and it has more variety. Tetris will make your hands hurt; Trisection will make your brain hurt. It includes lots of sound effects and background photographs. [more...]


BigFoot 2.2:  Happy feet for your desktop

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BigFoot is a Mac OS X "desktop critter" that provides you with endless entertainment, in the form of a pair of feet. But not just any feet! They are very configurable in both their appearance and their behavior, and while they may not obey your every command, they will keep you company through those long cold nights. They are based on an app I wrote many years ago now; this is a complete rewrite for OS X. [more...]


Measles 2.2:  A bouncy CPU monitor & desktop companion

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Measles provides you with little bouncy spheres on your desktop which are fun and colorful. They can be configured to act as CPU monitors, changing color according to how busy your machine is, or they can use a wide variety of color schemes and fill patterns. They have lots of different options to keep you entertained, from sounds effects to transparency. [more...]


Aquatint 1.1:  Make your own Aqua-style images

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Aquatint assists you in creating images that fit in with Apple's Aqua user interface appearance. The glossy, liquid appearance of Aqua looks great, but it places a burden on users and software developers who are not trained artists, since images like that are not easy to make. With Aquatint, you'll be cranking out your own custom Aqua icons and images effortlessly. [more...]


Ephemera 1.0:  A screensaver photo gallery

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Ephemera is a "slide show" screensaver containing more than 60 photographs. The photos are landscape and nature art photography, and are all in color. They were taken by Ben Haller, and are among many other photographs available at www.cloudphotographic.com. [more...]


We also have some products for developers that would not be of interest to end users.





Universal Apps

Products which are Universal (i.e. built to run on both Intel and PowerPC Macs) will display this badge:

   

We will be porting most or all of our apps over to be Universal eventually, with the likely exception of Solarian II (because the source code for the current release version of Solarian II was lost in a hard disk crash).

Apple wishes us to state here that Mac and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.


Localization

Products which have been localized for languages other than English will show flag icons at the bottom of their home page indicating the languages they've been localized for. Products which show no flags are currently English only. For example, if a product showed the information:

Localizations:


this would indicate that localization for English and Japanese has been done.

We are currently not looking for localizers for our products. If we were, we would ask that prospective localizers read our localization policy statement; but we are not, so you shouldn't. (If you are interested in localizing to Japanese, we would like to hear from you, actually; but we have given up on trying to localize to languages other than English and Japanese, as it proved to be too much work).

We keep a Localizer Hall of Fame as a way of thanking the people who have helped us in the past. For those who may help us in the future, we have some localization tips.


Scriptability

Products which are scriptable using AppleScript will display these badges:

      

There has been only very limited interest in the scriptability of Constrictor, so we do not have plans to make other apps scriptable at this time. If you would like to see scriptability in one of our apps, please let us know.


Older Products

All of Stick Software's current offerings are Mac OS X only. There are some older Stick Software products (such as the original Solarian II and Eyeballs) produced before OS X, but those products were written more than a decade ago and are no longer supported (if you want to download them anyway, click here). And by the way, yes, I did write Lunatic Fringe, Satori, Rose, and other After Dark modules, and no, I don't own the source code for them, and so will not be bringing them to OS X. Sorry...

We used to have a product called Issa, a "virtual fridge poetry" app. Issa has been sold to Mariner Software, and rechristened Desktop Poet. It is no longer available for download from us, but Issa's home page is still up, for remembrance of things past.

 
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