Ant Screen Saver

Ant Screen Saver is a small app which displays a screensaver on your computer. It shows a vector-based graphical animation that resembles the quest of ants gathering food from multiple piles.

Once installed, the tool is not automatically applied as your current screensaver; you must select its entry from a drop-down menu available through the screensaver settings screen.

When the screensaver starts, you can view a list of commands for a brief period of time. Thus, you can use keyboard shortcuts to show the menu, toggle the status bar and to reset the screensaver.

But you can also switch through several layouts, add or remove ants, as well as show pheromone and food detection. Some layouts only have piles of ant-food displayed, while others also contain obstacles that the ants must surpass in their search for food.

Unfortunately, Ant Screen Saver does not come with configurable settings. The lightweight utility does not put any strain on the computer, as it uses a very low amount of CPU and system memory. On the downside, it has limited features. But we must keep in mind the fact that Ant Screen Saver has not been updated for a very long time. Ant Screen Saver should please all individuals who want to observe the behavior of an ant; it can prove to be an essential tool for Biology class, for example.