Help and answers for Confetto, the menu bar confetti app for macOS.
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Click the 🎉 icon in your menu bar and choose any preset. Each preset can also have its own global keyboard shortcut, which works from any app — open Settings → your preset → Shortcut to record one.
Choose New Preset… from the menu bar. A preset can throw classic paper shapes, any emoji you type in, words in party colors, or your own images — drop a logo, doodle, or photo onto the Images tab (PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF, and HEIC all work). Pick one of four animation styles and tune the amount, size, and duration. The editor shows a live preview as you go.
Choose Schedule Confetti… from the menu bar to start a countdown, set confetti for a specific time, or save a repeating schedule — daily at a time you pick, or every so many minutes. Saved repeats can be switched on and off from the menu.
Another app has probably claimed the same combination. Open Settings → your preset → Shortcut and record a different one. Confetto needs no accessibility permissions, so there's nothing to grant in System Settings.
That's intentional — it lives in the menu bar. A Dock icon appears only while a Confetto window is open, so you can switch back to it with ⌘-Tab, then disappears again when you close the window.
If it slipped behind another app, reopen it from the menu bar icon — it comes straight back with everything as you left it.
On your Mac, alongside Confetto's own preferences. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Images you import are copied into the app's own folder, so you can move or delete the originals without breaking a preset.
No. No accounts, no analytics, no network access whatsoever. See the privacy policy for the full detail.
It can't. Confetti is drawn on a transparent, click-through overlay across every display — clicks pass straight through to whatever's underneath, and it never takes focus from what you're doing.