Blinds

Blinds is a monochrome, ambient screensaver for users who love minimalist displays and easy-to-handle applications.

Nowadays, it is pretty difficult to find tools that have just a couple of functions and options. With a market that is supersaturated in software solutions for all kinds of needs and unexpected desires, development teams, companies, and even small teams or individual developers strive to create the most complex utilities and systems, the most impressive applications, but most importantly, they want to make the most feature-extensive programs, with a wide variety of options. That is the reason why it is a rarity to find a single-purpose application, with minimal setup and configuration needed.

Blinds is one of those simple-yet-efficient tools. The app is an open-source initiative that was built to serve one purpose. It is a screensaver that plays subtle music and moves vertical lines (blinds-like) onto your screen, in a loop.

The application is available for Windows OS and macOS. For Windows users, it runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. The downloaded package is an archive containing the tool itself (the executable) and the necessary components for running it.

All you must do to start using Blinds is to extract the files from the small-sized archive, and double-click the executable. Also, the only technical requirement is to have Java installed (8 or a later version).

After initiating a Blinds instance, the tool will loop a piece of ambient music and the dynamic screensaver pattern (consisting of a bunch of oscillating vertical blinds-like grids).

In order to stop the music and play the dynamic screensaver only, you must press the 'M' key. Also, in order to exit Blinds, you only need to press ESC.

All things considered, Blinds is, as you can tell by now, a fun and super-simplistic tool. If you are an open-source lover or a minimalist, you should definitely consider giving it a go.