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Atheria

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Your desktop comes alive. And knows when to disappear.

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Your desktop comes alive. And knows when to disappear.

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Atheria turns your Mac desktop into living art you can grow yourself. Its Flame Creator generates fractal flames you shape, save, and share as a code. Every flame is one of a kind: there are more possible flames than atoms in the observable universe. It's also a full wallpaper engine: real-time custom shaders, a library of 85, and your own video loops that drop to 0 fps the moment they're hidden. macOS 15+, Apple Silicon and Intel. One-time Pro, no subscription, nothing ever leaves your Mac.

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Hi Product Hunt, Ben here, solo dev behind Atheria. I built Atheria because every live wallpaper app I tried was the same thing: a catalog of looping videos quietly eating my battery. I wanted living art that is computed, not replayed, and an app polite enough to vanish the moment you cannot see it. So Atheria renders generative art in real time on the GPU, and when a window fully covers your desktop it stops rendering entirely. Measured with Activity Monitor: about 3% of one core while animating, and 0.0% when hidden. The methodology is a footnote on the site, not a marketing rounding trick. The parts I am proudest of: - Shader Creator: write Metal shaders inside the app, or paste GLSL and let it convert. No Xcode, no build step. - Video Editor: trim, rotate, and boomerang any clip of yours into a seamless loop. - Privacy Guard: one hotkey frosts your whole screen when you step away. - No accounts, no servers, no analytics. The privacy label is empty because there is nothing to collect. Free to try with a full-quality shader, no watermark, no time limit. Pro is a one-time purchase, priced lower for launch week. The real shaders run live in your browser if you want proof before downloading anything: embraarchive.com/atheria-live.html I will be here all day. Ask me anything, especially the hard performance questions.

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2h ago

Every flame is one of a kind, no really.

It's a big claim. Here's the breakdown.

The size. A flame is a tiny genome: about fifty numbers that describe how light folds in on itself. The number of flames those numbers can describe is past 10^300, more than the atoms in the observable universe. That is not a figure of speech. It is the size of the parameter space, and you can prove it the way you prove a password's strength: by counting, not by guessing.

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17d ago

What has kept you from using live wallpapers on your Mac?

Hi All!

I am a solo dev launching a native Mac live wallpaper app on July 28, and I

built it around the two things that kept me from ever using one myself:

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