Starship Consoles

One hundred animated starship consoles — sickbay, engineering, tactical, astrometrics and more — as a Mac screen saver. Every screen is alive: readings tick, sensors sweep, the warp field breathes. Shuffled across all your displays.

Download Starship Consoles 1.6.2

Build 174 · 33 MB · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon Macs
Free. Signed and notarized by Apple. Updated 15 October 2026.

To install: open the download, drag Starship Consoles Options to Applications, then open it from there once — that's what installs the screen saver.

On Windows? There's a Windows version by wolf123450, ported from the open-source screens.

Screens

Crew Locator screen: a deck-by-deck sensor sweep finds a crew member's comm badge
Crew Locator Operations & Crew
Warp Propulsion screen: nine field layers around the nacelles and a warp velocity curve
Warp Propulsion Engineering
Sickbay screen: a patient's vital signs on a biobed
Sickbay Medical
Tactical screen: shields, phasers and torpedoes
Tactical Tactical & Security
Astrometrics screen: stellar cartography
Astrometrics Science
Operations screen: ship status
Operations Bridge & Command
Navigation screen: a long-range scan
Navigation Navigation & Fleet
Engineering screen: the warp core and power distribution
Engineering Engineering

Shown as they render on a 6K display. Click any screen for the full size.

What you get

  • 100 screens in seven departments: Bridge & Command, Engineering, Science, Medical, Operations & Crew, Tactical & Security, Navigation & Fleet.
  • A different screen on each display, changing every 30 seconds to 10 minutes — or one screen of your choosing per display.
  • The ship's engine hum, with a switch and a volume control.
  • Starship Consoles Options, an app for choosing screens, departments and timing.

Installing

  1. Open the downloaded StarshipConsoles-1.6.2-b174.dmg and drag Starship Consoles Options to Applications.
  2. Open it once: it installs the screen saver for you. No password.
  3. Choose Starship Consoles in System Settings › Screen Saver.

Updates

Starship Consoles keeps itself up to date: once a day it checks for a new version and installs it quietly — no window, no password. Check for Updates… is beside the version number in Starship Consoles Options if you'd rather look now. The check reads a small update feed on Amazon S3 for the latest version number; nothing about you is sent, and nothing else in Starship Consoles uses the network.

Removing it

Delete these three, then log out and back in (~ is your home folder):

  • /Applications/Starship Consoles Options.app
  • ~/Library/Screen Savers/Starship Consoles.saver
  • ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.edlings.starshipconsoles.update-check.plist