u/Dim_Kat

Hey everyone!

I made Calendarly to put my calendar, reminders and tasks right on my iPhone Lock Screen instead of checking a few different apps every time.

It uses Shortcuts to create a new wallpaper automatically every day. You can put pretty much whatever is useful to you on it:

• Calendar events
• Apple Reminders
• Todoist tasks
• Notes
• Countdowns
• Daily, monthly and yearly calendars
• Different layouts, styles and backgrounds
• Your own photos

You choose a layout, set up the automation once, and after that your Lock Screen updates every day by itself.

Download for free:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calendarly-calendar-wallpaper/id6758898739

Website:
https://getcalendarly.com

Shortcut:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/83b54aeaae6d4b56a6b33869ac103f3c

I actually posted Calendarly here about six months ago when it was still a much simpler app. I got a lot of feedback and ideas from people here, and it helped me a lot with figuring out what to improve and build next. So thank you to everyone who tried it back then.

I also have 100 lifetime codes to give away.
Update: I got way more requests than I expected, so I added 100 more!
Update: all 200 are gone. Thank you!!

For anyone who missed them, I made a code for 1 month of Premium for free:

https://apps.apple.com/redeem/?code=MONTHFREE&ctx=offercodes&id=6758898739

No limit on this one, so feel free to use it :)

Would love to know what you think if you try it!!

Problem:

macOS has great wallpapers, but you're pretty limited once you want to go beyond Apple's collection.

Wallper brings live wallpapers to your Desktop, Lock Screen and Screen Saver, with 4K wallpapers from our library or your own videos.

Features:

• Lock Screen + Screen Saver live wallpapers
• 2,000+ wallpapers built in + your own MP4 videos
• Multi-monitor support
• Playlists + Day/Night switching
• Music-reactive wallpapers
• Low resource usage

Comparison:

The closest alternatives are probably iWallpaper and Backdrop. Both are good apps, but with Wallper we obsess a bit more over making the whole thing feel like something Apple could've built into macOS.

Lock Screen and Screen Saver wallpapers take one click to set up, without having to touch System Settings. We also spent a lot of time on performance: in our own 4K test Wallper averaged around 1.46% of one CPU core, and it pauses completely when the wallpaper is covered.

We documented the full test here:
https://www.wallper.app/blog/2026/07/live-wallpaper-battery-test-mac

We also manually review wallpapers before they go into the library, and it keeps growing with submissions from the community.

Pricing:

$14.99 lifetime (up to 3 Macs)
7-day free trial

Download: https://wallper.app/

Wallper also recently passed 100,000 users. A lot of people here have helped us with feedback, ideas and bug reports along the way, so thank you. A lot of that feedback has made its way into the app.

We're doing a small lifetime license giveaway in our Discord to celebrate :)

Would love to hear what you think.

Source: https://www.wallper.app/wallpaper/pixelart/gaming-night-e12e22c8-9859-49d5-b33a-2ed807f54008

Source: https://www.wallper.app/wallpaper/anime/sakura-tree-with-waterfall-befaacdb-cb2a-4cff-b685-7d78b4b18b08

Source: https://www.wallper.app/wallpaper/games/minecraft-forrest-and-fireflies-4k-66c97ef8-cf12-464a-9e7f-29af3f31fc5c

Source - https://www.wallper.app/wallpaper/nature/ocean-AF686A08-6981-4861-B588-FADA54E9655D

It pulls the artwork from the current track and turns its colors into an animated live gradient.

I’m using YouTube Music here, but it works with basically any player or browser that appears in macOS Now Playing, including Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, and YouTube.

I've always wanted the music playing on my Mac to affect the desktop somehow, so now my wallpaper automatically changes based on the current track.

It pulls the album artwork from YouTube Music and creates an animated gradient from its colors. When the song changes, the wallpaper changes with it.

It actually works with pretty much any media player or browser that appears in macOS Now Playing, but I mainly use YouTube Music, so I was especially happy to finally get this working.

I'm using Wallper for it: https://wallper.app

Hey r/macapps.
We build Wallper, a live wallpaper app for Mac.

It just turned a year old, and we shipped our biggest update yet (1.8.0), so I wanted to share it. Some of you have left feedback in past threads here, which I appreciate.

Problem

If you came from Windows, you probably miss Wallpaper Engine. There's still no native version for Mac. Most Mac options either have a small library or put everything behind a subscription, and a lot of them run hot and drain the battery.

We wanted animated 4K wallpapers on the desktop, lock screen, and as a screensaver that stay light on the machine and don't cost a monthly fee.

So last summer, a friend and I decided to build Wallper. A year later, it's grown a lot, with 84,650 active users, 3.33M GB of wallpapers downloaded, and a library of 4,409 wallpapers.

The latest release is version 1.8.0, which is also our biggest update so far.

What's new in 1.8.0

Here's what this update added:

• Music sync now picks up any audio or video playing on your Mac, not just Spotify and Apple Music. YouTube Music, a browser tab, SoundCloud, etc. all work through macOS Now Playing. It builds a live gradient from the cover art.
• A new beta we call Light Sync, which mirrors the on-screen colors onto WLED strips and Philips Hue lights in real time.
• Playlists, with separate day and night sets that swap automatically by time of day.
• A lot faster now. Lock screen setup is mostly handled on our side instead of on your Mac, so most installs skip the heavy local processing.
• A long list of bug fixes around offline mode, multi-monitor setups, battery handling, startup, and wallpaper restore.

You can also use your own MP4 files. Wallpapers can be uploaded to the community if you want to share them, but everything can stay completely local as well. It also pauses itself on battery, on fullscreen, or when CPU spikes.

Comparison

If you search the Mac App Store for wallpaper apps, two of the most popular options you'll probably run into are iWallpaper and Unsplash Wallpapers.

iWallpaper has a big library, but it's mostly focused on desktop live wallpapers. Unsplash Wallpapers is a nice free one, but those are static photos, not live video.

Wallper focuses specifically on live 4K video wallpapers for the desktop, the lock screen (macOS 26+), and as a screensaver.

One honest note, since we're talking about other apps: we've noticed a lot of them lately copying us pretty closely, from the design down to parts of how it works internally. I think most of you have already spotted it, so I won't make a thing of it. Thanks for being here this past year, we really appreciate it.

Pricing

7 days free, no login or card needed. After that it's one-time, no subscription:

• $14.99 for up to 3 Macs
• $24.99 for up to 5 Macs, with cloud sync so your wallpapers follow you across them

Direct download from https://www.wallper.app/
full 1.8.0 changelog is on our GitHub.

If you try it, I'd love to hear what you think. Feedback from this subreddit has genuinely shaped a lot of what we've built over the past year, so I'm always paying attention.

Happy to answer any questions!