Hello Mini Est. 2026. Spiritually 1984.

FOR THE MAC ON YOUR DESK

hello,
again.

A little desktop.
A lot of possibility.

Your modern Mac has a tiny, deeply unserious Macintosh living inside it.

Meet your new old Mac

Apple silicon · macOS 26+ · Free & open source

About This Macintosh

A smiling pixel Macintosh

Hello Mini

Inspired by 1984.
Built for today.

Applications
15 little distractions
Appearances
5 ways to time travel
Available memory
More than seems polite
UsefulRidiculous

An unreasonable amount of room for little things.

Activity MonitorTeapotAquariumPrint Monitor

A DESKTOP WITH QUESTIONABLE PRIORITIES

Some useful.
Some utterly unnecessary.

Watch your machine work. Keep a thought. Feed a fish.
There is, technically, a productivity angle.

A little look inside

Hello Mini’s desktop with its themed windows and built-in desk accessories
The real app. The hardware requirements would have caused a scene in 1984.

A tiny window on a big machine.

Activity Monitor keeps an eye on CPU, memory, and processes. Print Monitor turns GitHub and GitLab builds into a queue of imaginary print jobs.

A failed build is a paper jam. Obviously.

A place for the little things.

Keep notes, pictures, links, and commands in Scrapbook. Check a time zone, convert a unit, browse a folder, or work out where all that disk space went.

Desk accessories, with rather fewer limitations.

Entirely too much computer.

A spinning Metal teapot. A fish tank. Flying Toasters. A puzzle made from the live desktop. Modern graphics, dressed for a different decade.

Optional silliness. Impeccably poor priorities.

PICK YOUR PARTICULAR NOSTALGIA

Five appearances.
One peculiar little world.

From monochrome to pinstripes and blue gel. The applications stay the same; the decade is up to you.

Control Panel

  • ClassicBlack. White. Just right.
  • PaperA little room to breathe.
  • MidnightFor after hours.
  • System 7A little colour creeps in.
  • AquaPinstripes. Gel. Traffic lights.

Feeling purist? Fit the whole desktop into 512 × 384. Even the teapot.

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HELLO MINI FOR MAC

Make a little room
on your desktop.

Free, open source, and yours to tinker with.

Check release availability

macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon

  1. Download and expand the ZIP.
  2. Move Hello Mini to Applications.
  3. Open it. Say hello.

Release builds are signed and notarized by Apple.
Prefer to build it yourself? The source is on GitHub.