Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Pixel Wallpaper Engine
Dynamic Live Wallpaper Engine
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pixel Wallpaper Engine launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Backdrop▲170Live Wallpapers for your Mac Desktop & Lock Screen
Sep 2025 · cindori.com · its alternatives →
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Ever since Apple introduced their video wallpapers I wanted to be able to put custom videos there. I decided to reverse engineer and see what I can do. I built Phosphene to sell it, but the existing competitors were polished enough that the time it would have taken to catch up wasn't going to pay off. So I'm open-sourcing it. WallpaperExtensionKit.framework is what powers macOS wallpapers. It controls what’s shows in the Settings app. It took a lot of trial and error to replicate the behavior, but the result is that your custom wallpapers appear alongside everything else. I wanted to have an…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Curated, HD desktop background photos from Unsplash.
2017 · its alternatives →
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Discover the world's creative work through your Mac
2014 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Oskar, a solo indie Mac developer from Sweden. For those in the Mac community, you might know me from my other apps like Sensei and Trim Enabler. For years, I've been frustrated by the lack of customisation of macOS. In particular the Lock Screen which supports animated wallpapers, but only ones provided by Apple. There's never been a way to add your own personal videos. I decided to figure out how to solve this, and the result is Backdrop 2.0. Backdrop is my Live Wallpaper app for Mac, it can play video wallpapers on your desktop. And now it can play on your Lock Screen too. The…
Sep 2025 · cindori.com · its alternatives →
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A wallpaper community made for macOS dynamic wallpapers
May 2026 · wallpaperexchange.com · its alternatives →
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