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OpenLiveWalls
video wallpapers for macOS, local, private, hackable
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video wallpapers for macOS, local, private, hackable
12 followers
OpenLiveWalls is a macOS menu bar app that turns your local video files into live desktop wallpapers. It also converts and patches videos for macOS native lock screen wallpaper support — all offline, all private. Unlike commercial alternatives, OpenLiveWalls is fully open-source. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. Your wallpapers stay on your machine.
Love the offline-first approach, this is exactly the kind of tool I want running on my machine. One thing that would make it even better is letting me schedule different wallpapers to rotate throughout the day, kind of like a smart playlist, so the desktop feels less static without me manually swapping files.
Was pleasantly surprised how smoothly it handled a 4K clip without any noticeable performance hit on my M1 Mac. The lock screen wallpaper patching feature worked exactly as described.
Finally something that lets me use my own clips without uploading them somewhere. The lock screen patch was a nice surprise, works smoothly on my Mac.
Really appreciate that the patches go straight to the native lock screen instead of a hacky overlay, and keeping everything offline with zero accounts is exactly the right call.