Retroized

◈ OVERLAY 01

Turn your modern Mac desktop into a living, glowing piece of analog history. Retroized is an interactive desktop overlay that ages whatever is already on screen — retro games, videos, streaming windows, and code editors — with phosphor glow, scanlines, analog color grades, and vintage signal degradation.
Whether you want the warm grain of a 1970s broadcast, the tight scanlines of a 90s arcade cabinet, or the cool flat look of an early-2000s studio monitor, Retroized puts that CRT layer on top of your real desktop.

◈ CLICK-THROUGH 02

Keep watching, typing, playing, or streaming underneath the live CRT shader. Click-through applies to the overlay on the primary display.

◈ CRT LOOKS 03

Vintage TV, Arcade, Portable CRT, Consumer CRT, Trinitron, Sony PVM, Broadcast CRT, Sony BVM, and Flat monitor — from curved classic tubes to boxy studio glass, 1970s through the early 2000s.

◈ SHADER 04

Fine-tune curvature, phosphor mask and pitch, phosphor persistence, chromatic aberration, bloom, scanlines, and glass reflections. 68 tunable parameters.

◈ COLOR & SIGNAL 05

• 10 analog color grades tailored to vintage NTSC/PAL broadcast tones.
• 21 noise and signal-degradation presets simulating RF interference, tape hum, VHS tracking jitter, and cable fuzz.

◈ PRESETS 06

Ships with 20 ready-to-use factory presets, custom preset saving, and an integrated preset name generator.

◈ CAPTURE 07

Record the CRT screen to MP4 or loopable GIF, with customizable capture timers. MP4 export needs ffmpeg on your PATH.

◈ USES 08

• Retro emulation & gaming — play classics the way they were meant to look.
• Movies & streaming — watch retro anime, vintage films, and VHS clips through a simulated curved tube.
• Coding & creative work — give your IDE, terminal, or tracker a phosphor-catalog / analog-night look.
• Content creation — export CRT footage and animations for video edits and motion graphics.

◈ SPECS 09

• Platform: macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel)
• Performance: Real-time GPU-accelerated shader pipeline
• Display support: Single monitor, multi-monitor setups(mirror only), and high-DPI (Retina) scaling
• Requires macOS 12.5 or later. Older versions cannot run this app. The download will not be blocked — check System Settings → General → About before buying.