Facet: Turn any photo into a wallpaper, with live Metal effects

Facet is a native wallpaper studio for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Reeded glass, frost, prism, halftone and dither effects, rendered in real time with Metal, entirely on your device.

Hi Product Hunt, I'm Fabio, I made Facet. I kept taking photos I loved and wanting them on my screens, but plain photos rarely make good wallpaper: too busy behind the icons. So I built a small studio that reshapes a photo into something calmer and more graphic. Facet has six effects, each one a real optical or print process rather than a filter: - Reeded and frosted glass, like looking through architectural glass. - Prism, real chromatic dispersion (ported from paper.design's shader). - Halftone and CMYK halftone, actual print dots with per-plate control. - Dithering, from 1-bit newsprint to Game Boy green. It's a native Metal engine, so the preview is live and full resolution while you drag the sliders. Sixty-plus presets to start from. Everything runs on your GPU, on device: no account, no analytics, no network access, your photos never leave. It's a universal app: one purchase of 2,99 € covers Mac, iPhone and iPad. No subscription. There's a free pack of 12 photos to try it on. One limit: the output is a static wallpaper. macOS has no public third-party API for live desktop wallpapers, so I make still images by design. Would love to know which effect you'd reach for first. Happy to answer anything.

The dither effects on my Mac look shockingly good and Metal rendering keeps everything snappy. Wish I could tweak the reeded glass blur a bit more, but overall a gorgeous little studio.

@pelinsukut0eg8 Thank you Pelin, means a lot 🙏

On the reeded glass, the blur is currently controlled through the "Frost" slider, so there's some range to work with there. If you have a particular look in mind, let me know, feedback really helps.

The dither effects on my Mac look shockingly good and Metal rendering keeps everything snappy. Wish I could tweak the reeded glass blur a bit more, but overall a gorgeous little studio.

@pelinsukut0eg8 Thank you Pelin, means a lot 🙏

On the reeded glass, the blur is currently controlled through the "Frost" slider, so there's some range to work with there. If you have a particular look in mind, let me know, feedback really helps.