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13 superhero live wallpapers for Mac, from Spider-Man and Black Panther to Batman and Invincible. Ten are 4K, and you can try three free.

15 cyberpunk and city live wallpapers for Mac: neon megacities, skylines from New York to Tokyo, synthwave drives, and how to set one on your Mac.

16 cozy live wallpapers for Mac: lofi study rooms, glowing cafés, flickering fireplaces and starry campsites, each with its resolution and how much it moves.

15 Zenless Zone Zero, Genshin and Honkai: Star Rail live wallpapers for Mac, from Ellen Joe to Furina and Firefly. Preview each loop, then set it in Backdrop.

15 Wuthering Waves live wallpapers for Mac: Hsin above a fiery city, Suoming, Jinhsi, Chisa and the Exostrider. Preview each loop and set it with Backdrop.

17 Minecraft live wallpapers for Mac: cherry groves, a crackling fireplace, an aquarium, mobs and a blocky BMW M5. Preview each loop and set it with Backdrop.

The 18 best space live wallpapers for Mac: glowing black holes, ringed planets, astronauts, nebulae and sci-fi stations, each set in a few clicks with Backdrop.

The 18 best abstract live wallpapers for Mac: liquid color, slow waves, glowing geometry, neon trails and dark minimal loops, set in a few clicks with Backdrop.

Backdrop 2.10 gives each of your desktop Spaces its own live wallpaper, plays your Lock Screen separately, redesigns user profiles and starts faster after login.

Backdrop 2.9 brings an all-new menu bar panel, a separate Lock Screen wallpaper, per-display setup in Settings and smooth crossfades between your live wallpapers.

Backdrop 2.8 speaks 21 more languages, can pause your live wallpaper on battery or in Low Power Mode, and splits Pause from Stop so you can resume.

Meet Backdrop Collections: themed groups of wallpapers in Discover that make it easier to find a look for your Mac, from cozy rooms to neon cities.

Our Black Friday 2025 sale is live! Get Sensei or Backdrop at 50% off in the best deal of the year for all of our Mac apps.

Backdrop 2.0 introduces world-first Lock Screen video wallpapers for Mac, bringing custom video backgrounds to both your Mac desktop and Lock Screen – an exclusive feature available nowhere else.

Sensei 1.6 introduces a new LaunchDaemon, improved performance, and a unified app. The legacy helper tool is gone, making onboarding faster and more reliable.

Our Black Friday 2024 sale is live! Get Sensei or Trim Enabler at 50% off in the best deal of the year for all of our Mac apps.

Master Metal shaders in SwiftUI to create stunning custom visual effects. Learn shader fundamentals, build distortion effects, color filters, and performance-optimized GPU-accelerated visuals.

Learn how to build a custom video player in SwiftUI using AVKit. This comprehensive guide covers video playback, custom controls, picture-in-picture, and performance optimization for macOS and iOS.

Streamline your macOS app updates with Sparkle: automate building, signing, notarizing, and publishing for efficient app management.

Learn how you can use Metal shaders to render randomness.

Learn how to use scene delegates to present content on an external display with iOS using SwiftUI.

Learn how you can effortlessly create an efficient and reusable marquee effect with a custom Metal shader for SwiftUI Texts and other views.

Breaking the ice: learn how to create an efficient and reusable wave effect with a custom Metal shader for SwiftUI views.

Learn how to use the new Observation framework introduced at WWDC 2023 to ensure the best performance for your SwiftUI app.

Choose a CleanMyMac alternative by the job: Sensei for storage cleanup plus diagnostics, or focused free tools for app removal, maintenance, and storage.

Wallspace vs Backdrop in 2026: choose Backdrop for discovering and making Mac wallpapers, or Wallspace for a free start and lower one-time Pro price on Mac.

iWallpaper vs Backdrop: choose Backdrop for a guided Mac wallpaper workflow and Lock Screen video, or iWallpaper for a cheaper App Store route on older macOS.

Lively Wallpaper has no official Mac version. Compare Backdrop, Aerial, and Plash for video, free aerial, and website wallpapers, with current Mac requirements.

Wallper vs Backdrop: Backdrop is our pick for Lock Screen video on Sequoia, curated Collections, a trial that never ends, and 15 years of Mac app updates.

GrandPerspective vs Sensei compared for treemaps, saved scans, cleanup review, privacy, pricing, and choosing the right Mac storage workflow on macOS.

coconutBattery vs Sensei compares battery history, iPhone and iPad support, Mac diagnostics, current prices, privacy disclosures, and who each app suits.

Aerial vs Backdrop: compare live wallpapers, Apple aerials, community browsing, editors, multi-display controls, privacy, compatibility, and prices.