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Products that do what Reactive Wallpaper does

Your Mac desktop, alive.

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Live Desktop▲240
Make your Mac desktop come alive with animated themes
2016
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Backdrop▲170
Live Wallpapers for your Mac Desktop & Lock Screen
Sep 2025
3IR
I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers▲82
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
4IR
I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers▲428
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
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CleanShot▲571
Discover a superior way to capture your Mac's screen 🚀
2018
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Orbl▲36
Turn your Mac wallpaper into a live dashboard
Jun 2026 · orbl.app
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Plash▲266
Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper
2021
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Unsplash Wallpapers for Mac (Official)▲525
Curated, HD desktop background photos from Unsplash.
2017
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iWall▲95
A simple, beautiful live wallpaper for Mac
2017
10
Dynamic Wallpaper Club▲305
Make and share dynamic wallpapers for macOS
2019
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Wallper▲26
Live Wallpapers for Mac Desktop & Lock Screen
Nov 2025 · wallper.app
12AP
A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React▲683
2021 · portfolio.zxh.io
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Framed▲110
Turn screenshots, videos, and code into polished visuals
May 2026 · apps.apple.com
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Equinox▲102
Create dynamic wallpapers for macOS
2021
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Vitrine▲90
Turn any photo into a beautiful wallpaper
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com
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Real Live Wallpaper▲7
Turn your desktop into a real-time window to the world
Oct 2025
17
Desktopr▲144
Make any website your Mac wallpaper
2016
18SS
Spot – Simple, cross-platform, reactive desktop GUI toolkit for Go▲309
Hi HN, I’m excited to share Spot, a simple, cross-platform, React-like GUI library for Go. It is just a few days old and has lots of missing features but I'm happy with the results so far, and looking for some design feedback. Spot is designed to be easy to use and provide a consistent API across different platforms (mainly Mac & Linux). It’s inspired by React, but written in Go, aiming to combine the best of both worlds: the easy tooling & performance of Go with a modern, reactive approach to UI development. Key features: - Cross-platform: Leveraging FLTK[1] & Cocoa[2], Spot works on Mac,…
2024 · github.com
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Carbon Sand▲132
36 minimal & dynamic wallpapers for macOs or anything else.
2022
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Splashify▲194
Beautiful desktop wallpapers for Mac and Windows
2017
21
Mac+▲4
Animated wallpapers, folder icons and widgets for Mac
Jun 2026 · macplus.pro
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Poster▲97
Minimalist searchable wallpaper changer
2018
23
Wallpaper Exchange▲3
A wallpaper community made for macOS dynamic wallpapers
May 2026 · wallpaperexchange.com
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Hologram▲95
Amazing widgets and wallpapers for your Mac desktop!
2020

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