DeskMat
DeskMat is a macOS utility that quickly covers your desktop to hide files and reduce distractions during screen sharing, streaming, and focused work.
What is DeskMat?
DeskMat is a native Mac utility for hiding what is visible on your desktop without moving or reorganizing your files. It helps users keep screen sharing sessions, video calls, demos, and recordings cleaner by covering desktop items with a wallpaper match, custom image, color, or blur. The app can work manually from a desktop button, menu bar control, or keyboard shortcut, and it can also trigger automatically when certain apps are active or when a Focus mode turns on. It supports multiple displays, lets you cover all desktops or only one, and can hide selected files, folders, or file types instead of the entire desktop. DeskMat is published by Eternal Storms and is designed for macOS workflows where privacy, presentation, and visual focus matter.
Key features
- Cover the entire desktop instantly for cleaner screen sharing and presentations
- Hide only selected files, folders, or file types instead of everything
- Use your current wallpaper, a custom image, a solid color, or blur as the cover
- Trigger desktop covering automatically when chosen apps open or come to the foreground
- Integrate with Focus modes to hide the desktop when a Focus is active
- Control the cover from a desktop button, the menu bar, or a keyboard shortcut
- Choose whether to affect one display or all connected displays
- Automate desktop covering with AppleScript support
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
DeskMat is a legitimate desktop utility for macOS. Access to your Desktop is normal for features that hide selected files or folders, and the app may run in the background so it can respond from its button, menu bar, shortcuts, or automatic triggers. Removing it stops those convenience features but does not delete your desktop files.
Recommendation: Keep DeskMat if you use screen sharing, demos, streaming, or want a cleaner desktop while working. If you no longer use those features, you can remove it without affecting your documents beyond losing the app’s desktop-cover controls and automation.
Common paths
/Applications/DeskMat.app
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