rx no.002 ・ video wallpapers

Phosphene

Your videos on the desktop and lock screen.

Add your own video wallpapers to macOS. Choose them in System Settings and let the system play them.

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macOS 26 Tahoe · Apple Silicon & Intel · free

phosphene running on macOS Tahoe

01 ・ how it works

Your videos in System Settings.

Phosphene uses Apple’s wallpaper framework to play your videos on the desktop and lock screen.

Drag a video into the library or menu bar, then select it in System Settings → Wallpaper. macOS runs the wallpaper itself, alongside its built-in collections.

System Settings’ Wallpaper pane with the sidebar, selected video, and Phosphene’s Video Wallpapers collection

02 ・ the label

Choose a video. Set your wallpaper.

Phosphene’s library: a sidebar with All Videos, In Use, From Workshop and the Wallpaper Engine sources, a grid of video thumbnails, and the inspector

Phosphene’s menu bar with a wallpaper preview and Everywhere, Lock Screen, and Paused controls

01Supports videos your Mac can decode: MP4, MOV, HEVC, H.264, and ProRes.
02Set wallpapers per display and per Space.
03Frame-accurate, gapless looping.
04Pauses on battery, dimming, occlusion, and thermal limits. Stops processing after 30 seconds idle.
05Bring your own videos; the app includes no catalog.
06Free and open source under the MIT license.
07Counts itself in only if you say so: one anonymous check-in a day, and nothing that names you.
08Turns Wallpaper Engine wallpapers from the Steam Workshop into video wallpapers.

服用注意・ requirements & limitsUses a private Apple framework. macOS updates may require a compatibility fix.

03 ・ the workshop

Wallpaper Engine wallpapers, on a Mac.

The Steam Workshop has hundreds of thousands of animated wallpapers made for Wallpaper Engine, a Windows program. Phosphene turns them into video wallpapers.

Subscribe to wallpapers in Steam, pick them in Phosphene’s Wallpaper Engine section, and choose Make Videos. Each one becomes a looping video, ready to select in System Settings → Wallpaper.

Wallpaper Engine runs in Windows Steam. Sevoflurane brings that Steam to your Mac: free, from the same developer.

Phosphene’s library at its Wallpaper Engine section: eighteen Steam Workshop downloads as thumbnails, one selected, and Make Video in the inspector

商標・ trademarksWallpaper Engine is a trademark of Wallpaper Engine Team; Steam is a trademark of Valve Corporation. Phosphene is an independent app.

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macOS 26 · Apple silicon & Intel · free · MIT

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