Muro : Native Live Wallpapers for macOS
100% free, native live wallpapers for macOS
What it does
Muro is a native macOS app that plays smooth, looping video wallpapers on your desktop and lock screen. Built entirely in Swift with no Electron, it runs at around 2% CPU and auto-pauses to save battery. 100% free, open-source, and no subscriptions.
Live wallpapers for your Mac, with low CPU and RAM usage. Native, free, no paywall. The wallpaper library updates itself. - MrRockySL/Muro
A still desktop picture is a waste of a good screen. But most of the live wallpaper apps I tried came with a catch. Usually a subscription, or a Pro tier holding the good wallpapers hostage. Most of them are Electron apps wrapping a web page. They sit at 300 to 400 MB of RAM and keep your CPU warm all day, for a picture that moves. Muro is a native macOS app that plays looping video wallpapers on every display, and lets you browse them in a full screen gallery. It's written in Swift and SwiftUI, hands video decoding to your Mac's media hardware instead of the CPU, and pauses itself the moment you can't see it. Everything is free. No Pro tier, no paywall, no license key, no account. Every…from github.com
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