Hearthside: Your Custom Fireplace

Welcome to Your Hearthside
Hearthside: Your Custom Fireplace is an ultra-customizable ambient fireplace simulator and cozy desktop productivity companion. Whether you need a warm backdrop while studying, reading, coding, or unwinding after a long day, Hearthside is designed to be your personal digital comfort zone.

Interactive Dynamic Islands & Productivity
Hearthside isn't just an idle screen—it's an interactive workstation companion featuring sleek, expandable Dynamic Island widgets that float gracefully over your hearth:
Pomodoro Focus Timer: Boost your productivity with customizable focus sessions, short breaks, and long breaks with audio cues.

Interactive Task List: Jot down daily to-dos, check off completed items, and drag-and-drop tasks to prioritize your day.

Custom Timers & Stopwatch: Set quick alarms for water breaks, reminders, or track your work sprints.

Minimalist Clocks & Calendar: Keep track of time with clean digital and analog clock faces.

Cozy Notes: Keep quick reminders, inspirational thoughts, or scratchpad notes right beside the fire.

Dock, Drag & Resize: Freely reposition, collapse into compact pills, or resize your islands to fit your workflow.

Desktop Companion Modes
Keep the fire burning while you work, browse, or play other games:
Floating Transparent Overlay: Strip away the room and float a borderless, transparent fire directly over your desktop windows, IDE, or browser.

Docked Sidebar Mode: Snap Hearthside to the left or right of your monitor like a dedicated sidebar dock, keeping your fire and productivity islands neatly stacked in view.

Always-on-Top Support: Keep your cozy fire visible above all other active desktop windows.

Deep Fireplace & Room Customization
Craft your dream fireplace down to the smallest detail:
50+ Wall Styles: Cycle through dozens of wall textures across multiple material groups including Brick, Wood, Tile, Marble, Metal, and Festive.

Custom Wall Text & Quotes: Write your own personal messages, favorite motivational quotes, or goals directly onto the brickwork in custom fonts and colors.

Custom Art Gallery & Slideshow: Place your own photos or digital artwork on the wall. Display a single framed piece, or load a folder of images to cycle through a smooth carousel slideshow.

Fire & Smoke Dynamics: Choose from multiple log arrangements, adjust fire size from a gentle glow to a roaring blaze, and fine-tune flame speed, opacity, smoke, and floating embers.

Full Color Control: Customize the exact color of the flames, glowing coals, and walls using full RGB palettes.

Ambient sounds & Audio
Layer immersive soundscapes to create your ultimate acoustic sanctuary:
Layered Nature Sounds: Mix and match soothing background environments including thunderstorms, winter howling winds, peaceful creeks, rain and wilderness breezes.

Cozy Lo-Fi & Acoustic Soundtrack: Enjoy hours of built-in curated music spanning Lo-Fi beats, Celtic folk, and peaceful Piano tracks.

Local Music Folder Player: Point Hearthside to any folder on your PC to load and play your personal music collection directly through the in-game audio player.

Fire Acoustics: Customize the volume and crackle tone of the burning logs.

Presets, Controls & Accessibility
Camera Angles: Seamlessly switch between cinematic wide-room views, tight hearth close-ups, and cozy side perspectives.

Accessibility & Colorblind Support: Built-in colorblind simulation LUT filters (Protanopia, Deuteranopia, Tritanopia, Achromatopsia) with customizable intensity, UI scaling, and full keyboard/gamepad rebinding.

Roadmap & Future Updates
Hearthside continues to expand with new community-driven content:
Additional seasonal fireplace materials and seasonal room decor.

Expanded ambient soundscapes and new built-in music volumes.

Community feature requests and enhanced widget types.

Pre-crafted holiday and seasonal styles—including spooky Halloween setups, cozy winter holidays, and more.

Save your favorite combinations of fire, lighting, music, and walls to instant preset slots.