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DM Digital Rain Privacy Policy
Effective October 1, 2026.
DM Digital Rain is a screen saver and app for Mac, iPhone and iPad by Dependent Media that shows falling “digital rain” characters.
What the app collects
Nothing. DM Digital Rain has no account and contains no analytics or advertising. It makes no network connections, and Dependent Media receives no data from it.
What stays on your device
The app and the screen saver remember the style you chose (colour, glyphs, speed, density and size) and, on iPhone and iPad, whether to keep the screen awake. These settings never leave your device.
Contact
Questions: dependentmedia.com/hosting/contact.php.
DM Digital Rain Support
Support for DM Digital Rain, the falling-code screen saver for Mac, iPhone and iPad. If you don’t find your answer here, email josh@dependentmedia.com and a human will reply.
Mac: turn on the screen saver
- Open DM Digital Rain and click Install Screen Saver…. System Settings asks whether to install it for you only or for all users.
- On macOS 26 and later, open System Settings › Wallpaper and click Screen Saver…. On macOS 14 and 15, open System Settings › Screen Saver.
- Scroll to the bottom of the list. DM Digital Rain is in the Other group.
- Click Options… to choose the colour, glyphs, speed, density and size, or set them in the DM Digital Rain app, which also has a colour picker. Test starts the screen saver straight away.
- To change how soon it starts, use System Settings › Lock Screen › “Start Screen Saver when inactive”.
You can also click Play Full Screen in the app. Press any key or click to exit.
iPhone and iPad
- The rain starts as soon as you open the app. Tap the screen for options, and tap Done to hide them.
- Keep screen awake (on by default) stops the device from locking while the app is open. Plug the device in if you leave it running for a long time.
- iOS has no system-wide screen saver, so the rain runs while the app is open.
Styles
- Colours: Green, Cyan, Blue, Purple, Red, Amber, White, Rainbow, or any colour from the colour picker.
- Glyphs: Classic (mirrored katakana and numerals), Binary (0 and 1), or Latin (A–Z and 0–9).
- Speed, Density and Size sliders. Restore defaults puts everything back.
Privacy
The app collects nothing and makes no network connections. See the privacy policy.
DM Digital Rain: A Falling-Code Screen Saver for Your Mac
Streams of glowing characters pour down a black screen, drawn live and never repeating. DM Digital Rain is a real macOS screen saver, and an app that plays the same rain on your Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Watch it run
The opening as the screen saver starts: black, a single stream, a few more, then the full rain. After that, the Rainbow colour, Binary glyphs, and a colour of your own.
Try it here
This is the same rain, running in your browser. Change the colour, glyphs, speed, density and size, replay the opening, or go full screen.
A screen saver, set up in a minute
Open the app and click Install Screen Saver…. macOS asks once, then you pick DM Digital Rain under Other in System Settings › Wallpaper › Screen Saver… (or System Settings › Screen Saver on macOS 14 and 15). When your Mac goes idle, the screen fades to black, a single stream starts to fall, a few more join it, and then the rain fills every display. Test Screen Saver in the app starts it right away.
Make it yours
Eight colours including Rainbow, or any colour you like from the colour picker. Classic glyphs (mirrored katakana and numerals), Binary, or Latin letters. Sliders for speed, density and glyph size. Set them in the app, or from Options… in System Settings.
Smooth on every display
The rain is drawn on your Mac’s graphics chip at 60 frames per second, so it stays smooth across several large displays and barely touches the processor. It runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Coming to iPhone and iPad
iOS has no system-wide screen saver, so the iPhone and iPad app, coming to the App Store, starts the rain as soon as you open the app and keeps the screen awake while it runs: a good fit for a stand, a spare device, or a display on a shelf. Tap the screen for the same style options.
Private by default
No account, no ads, no network connections, no analytics. Your style choices stay on your device. See the privacy policy, and the support page for set-up help.
Download it free
Download DM Digital Rain for Mac (version 1.0.0, 1.2 MB, free). It needs macOS 14 or later and is signed and notarized by Apple: unzip it, drag it to your Applications folder, and open it. App Store versions for Mac, iPhone and iPad are on the way.
DM TV Remote: Control Your Apple TV From Your Mac
The Apple TV remote is small, silver and somewhere in the couch. DM TV Remote puts it on your Mac instead: pair once with the code your TV shows, then get around with a clickpad on screen, your keyboard or your trackpad. It’s free, with no ads.
See it in action
Everything the remote does
Click the edges of the clickpad to move and the centre to select. Back, TV/Home, Play/Pause and volume are there too, and every button holds for as long as you hold it, just like the real remote. You can also put your Apple TV to sleep and wake it.
Or use your keyboard and trackpad
With the remote in front, the arrow keys move, Return selects, Esc goes back and Space plays and pauses. H takes you home, and + and − change the volume. Swipe with two fingers on the clickpad to fly through long lists, or press T for trackpad mode, where the pad becomes the remote’s touch surface: drag to move the highlight, click to select.
Type searches on a real keyboard
When a search box or other text field is selected on your TV, a text field opens on your Mac. Type there and the text appears on the TV, with no more picking letters one at a time.
See what’s playing
When something is playing on the TV, the remote shows its artwork, title and progress. Skip back or forward ten seconds, pause, or drag the progress bar to jump anywhere. Prefer a plain remote? Right-click the card to hide it.
Open any app, on any Apple TV in the house
The Open App menu lists every app installed on your Apple TV; pick one and it opens. Have more than one Apple TV? Switch between them from the menu at the top. Keep the remote in its own window, or open it from the menu bar.
Private by default
No account, no ads, no analytics. The app talks only to the Apple TVs on your own network, over an encrypted connection, and its pairing keys stay in your Mac’s keychain. See the privacy policy.
Coming to the Mac App Store
DM TV Remote is free, and is with Apple for review now. It needs macOS 14 or later and an Apple TV on the same network. The volume buttons work when your Apple TV controls your TV’s volume. Apple TV is a trademark of Apple Inc.; this app is not made or endorsed by Apple.
DM Game Swarm Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 29, 2026
DM Game Swarm is made by Dependent Media. It is a knockout party game that runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. This policy explains what the game stores, what leaves your device, and what we can see.
The short version
DM Game Swarm collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-in and no server. The game runs entirely on your device and never connects to the internet. It contains no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and it does not follow you across other apps or websites.
1. What is stored on your device
The game remembers three small things so you do not have to set them again: the name you typed on the title screen, the difficulty you chose, and whether music and sound effects are on. These stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and deleting the game removes them. The game does not store your scores or progress; each show is played once and forgotten.
2. What the game can access
DM Game Swarm does not ask for access to your photos, contacts, location, camera, microphone or files. It plays sound through your device’s speakers. That is all.
3. What leaves your device
Nothing. The other sixty players in the show are computer-controlled and run on your device, so there is no online play and no chat. The name you type is shown only to you.
4. Children
DM Game Swarm is suitable for children. Because it collects no data at all, there is nothing for us to gather from a child playing it, and no way for us to identify any player. There are no ads, no in-app purchases and no links out of the game.
5. Changes to this policy
If the game ever gains a feature that sends data anywhere, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the change will be described plainly rather than buried.
Contact
Questions about this policy: josh@dependentmedia.com.
DM Game Swarm — Support
DM Game Swarm is a knockout party game for iPhone, iPad and Mac. You and 59 bots race and survive through five rounds, and the last bean standing gets the crown.
Controls
iPhone and iPad: put your left thumb anywhere on the left side of the screen and drag to move. Drag on the right side of the screen to look around. Tap JUMP to jump; hold it for a higher jump. Tap DIVE to launch forward and knock over beans in your way.
Mac: W A S D or the arrow keys move. Space jumps. Shift (or E) dives. Drag with the mouse to look around, and scroll to move the camera closer or further away. Esc pauses.
The five rounds
Round 1 (Gumdrop Gauntlet) is a race: finish in the top 40 of 60. Round 2 (Sweeper Sprinkles) is survival on a spinning disc: stay on it until only 24 remain. Round 3 (Bumper Boulevard) is a race: finish in the top 14 of 24. Round 4 (Hex-a-Gum) is survival on crumbling tiles: be one of the last 8. Round 5 (Crown Climb) is the final: be first to the crown.
If you fall in a race, you come back at the last checkpoint. In a survival round, falling knocks you out. If you are knocked out you can watch the rest of the show, skip to the next bean, or fast forward to the finish.
Difficulty
Choose Easy, Medium or Hard on the title screen before you press Play. Easy is the default: hazards are slower and the bots make more mistakes. Harder settings speed up the hazards and make the bots sharper.
If something goes wrong
The game runs slowly. The game lowers its own picture sharpness to hold a smooth frame rate. On iPhone and iPad, Low Power Mode limits the frame rate to 30, so turn it off for the smoothest play. Closing other apps helps too.
There is no sound. Check the ring/silent switch and the volume, then tap the note button at the top right of the game to make sure sound is on.
I want to start over. Pause the game and choose Quit to menu, then press Play for a fresh show.
Contact
Questions, bugs or ideas: josh@dependentmedia.com.
DM Game Swarm
Sixty jellybeans walk onto a game show. Five rounds later, one of them is wearing the crown. DM Game Swarm is a colourful knockout party game for iPhone, iPad and Mac where you are one of the sixty and the other fifty-nine are goofy bots who stumble, mistime their jumps and get bumped just like you do.
Five rounds, one crown
Every round knocks out more beans, and every round plays differently.
- Gumdrop Gauntlet is a race: hurdles, gaps, spinning bars and sliding walls. The first forty across the line move on.
- Sweeper Sprinkles is survival on a spinning disc. Jump the arms and stay on, and do not ride an arm: every few seconds it flashes a warning and pops out spikes. Twenty-four survive.
- Bumper Boulevard is a race across conveyor belts, bouncy bumpers and a slippery downhill ramp.
- Hex-a-Gum is survival on tiles that crumble once you touch them, over four layers. The last eight standing move on.
- Crown Climb is the final: race up a candy mountain and be the first to grab the crown.
A world map to pick your level
Between rounds your bean hops across an overworld map, in the spirit of the classic platformer maps. Clear a level and it gets a check mark. Win the final and your bean gets a crown on the map. You can also go back to the map to practise any level you have reached.
Easy by default, so anyone can win
The game starts on Easy: hazards move slower and the bots make more mistakes, so a casual player has a real shot at the crown. Medium and Hard are one tap away when you want a fight. The bots are not scripted to lose. They look for gaps and swinging hazards the way you do, and they make human mistakes: a late jump, a wobbly turn, a moment of not paying attention.
Weighty, wobbly, fun to move
Beans are glossy, squishy and a little heavy. They lean into turns, squash when they land, tumble when a spinner clips them and flatten anyone they dive into. The courses are bright candy colours, and all of the music and sound effects are made in code as you play.
Play it your way
On iPhone and iPad you steer with a thumb stick, drag the right side of the screen to look around, and use the JUMP and DIVE buttons. On a Mac it is the keyboard and mouse: WASD or the arrow keys to move, Space to jump, Shift to dive, drag to look.
Free, and private by default
DM Game Swarm is free. There are no ads, no in-app purchases and no accounts. The game runs entirely on your device and never connects to the internet, so it collects nothing about you. All it remembers is your name, your difficulty and your sound settings, and those stay on the device.
Coming to the App Store
DM Game Swarm for iPhone, iPad and Mac is being submitted to the App Store now.
DM Theremin Support
Support for DM Theremin, the iPhone app you play by moving your hands in the air. If you don’t find your answer here, email josh@dependentmedia.com and a human will reply.
What you need
- An iPhone with a LiDAR scanner: iPhone 12 Pro or any later Pro model. On other iPhones the app shows “This device has no LiDAR scanner”.
- Something to stand the phone on, such as a stand, a stack of books, or a phone propped against a mug.
Quick start
- Stand the phone up sideways, with the back camera facing you. Allow camera access when asked.
- Step back so your hands are about half a metre (a couple of feet) from the phone.
- Raise your left hand to turn the sound on. The further it is from the phone, the louder it plays. Drop it out of view to go quiet.
- Move your right hand toward the phone and away from it. Closer is higher, further is lower, just like a real theremin.
Modes
- Pentatonic is the easiest place to start. Every note you land on sounds good with every other, so children can make a tune straight away.
- Major and Minor snap to those scales, in any key you pick in Settings.
- Chromatic snaps to every semitone.
- Free is a real theremin: no snapping, so you find each note by ear. The meter under the note name shows how many cents sharp or flat you are.
The Find the note game
Tap Game. The app names a note and plays it. Find it with your right hand and hold it steady until the ring fills. You score more for being in tune and for being quick, and a streak multiplies your points. Tap Hear it to listen to the note again, and Stop to finish.
Questions
Pitch and volume are the wrong way round
Open Settings with the gear button and turn on Swap hands. Left-handed players often prefer it that way too.
There is no sound
Your left hand controls the volume, so make sure it is in view and not too close to the phone. Check the phone’s volume buttons, and the Volume slider in Settings.
The note jumps around
Keep other people and objects out of the space between you and the phone, since the app follows the nearest thing on each side. Play in normal room light, and keep your hands between about 15 and 80 cm from the phone. You can change those distances under Sensitivity in Settings.
Where exactly is each note?
Turn on Ladder shows centimetres in Settings. The ribbon on the right then shows how far from the phone each note sits.
Can I play a synth or another app with it?
Yes. Turn on Send MIDI in Settings. The app appears as “DM Theremin” to music apps on the same iPhone, can pair with Bluetooth MIDI instruments from the same screen, and joins network MIDI so a Mac can connect from Audio MIDI Setup. Notes are sent with pitch bend, so set the receiving instrument’s bend range to 2 semitones. Volume is sent as expression (CC 11). Turn on Mute built-in sound to hear only the synth.
Does the app record me?
No. The camera is used only to find your hands, and nothing is recorded, saved or sent anywhere. See the privacy policy.
Contact
Email josh@dependentmedia.com or call (775) 238-3425.
DM Theremin Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 25, 2026
DM Theremin is made by Dependent Media. It is an app that turns an iPhone into a theremin: you play it by moving your hands in the air in front of the phone. This policy explains what the app looks at, what it keeps, and what leaves your device.
We do not sell your data. We do not use advertising or analytics SDKs, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
The short version
DM Theremin collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-in and no server. The camera picture is used only to find your hands, and it is never recorded, saved or sent anywhere.
1. Camera and LiDAR
While you play, the app reads the rear camera and LiDAR scanner many times a second to measure how far each hand is from the phone. Each frame is processed in memory on your device and then discarded. The app does not take photos, record video, or store any camera or depth image. Nothing from the camera is sent to Dependent Media or to anyone else.
2. Data stored only on your device
The app remembers your settings, such as the scale, sound and hand swap, in its own private storage. Nothing else is saved, and game scores are not kept between sessions. Deleting the app removes the settings.
3. MIDI out
MIDI out is off until you switch it on in Settings. When it is on, the notes you play are sent as MIDI messages to music apps on the same device, to a Bluetooth MIDI instrument you pair, or to a computer on your local network that you connect. These are musical notes only, with no personal information. They go directly to the devices you choose, never to us.
4. Device permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Camera | Seeing where your hands are, using the rear camera and LiDAR scanner |
| Local network | Only if you turn on MIDI out: sending notes to a computer or synth on your network |
| Bluetooth | Only if you open Bluetooth MIDI in Settings: pairing with a Bluetooth MIDI instrument |
The app asks for nothing else: no microphone, no location, no contacts, no photo library, and no internet connection.
5. Children’s privacy
DM Theremin was made with children in mind. It does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. It has no accounts, no chat, no ads and no links out of the app, and it sends nothing to us.
6. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top.
7. Contact
Questions or concerns: Dependent Media — josh@dependentmedia.com
DM TV Remote Privacy Policy
Effective September 24, 2026.
DM TV Remote is a Mac app by Dependent Media that lets you control an Apple TV from your Mac.
What the app collects
Nothing. DM TV Remote has no account and contains no analytics or advertising. Dependent Media receives no data from the app.
Your network
The app finds the Apple TVs on your local network and connects directly to the one you choose, to send the buttons you press, the text you type for the TV, and requests such as the list of apps to open. These connections stay on your local network and are encrypted. The app makes no connections to the internet.
What stays on your Mac
When you pair with an Apple TV, the app keeps the pairing keys in your Mac’s keychain so it can reconnect without a new code, and remembers which Apple TV you last used. Choose Forget in the app’s settings to remove a pairing.
Contact
Questions: dependentmedia.com/hosting/contact.php.