Get Live Wallpapers on Mac with Wallpaper Reactor Lite
If you’re looking for a new unique way to spruce up your Mac desktop visual experience, you might enjoy trying out live wallpapers with a free Mac app called Wallpaper Reactor Lite. Live wallpapers are much like they sound like; active moving wallpaper images rather than a single static image. It’s a neat visual effect, though it may be distracting to some users, depending on the wallpaper you pick.
Wallpaper Reactor Lite is a fairly straight forward app that allows you to browse through a collection of live wallpaper options, select one, and set it as your Mac desktop background picture. You’ll then have a neat moving wallpaper, compared to your standard static wallpaper image.
The app is free and you can download it from the Mac App Store:
The embedded video below shows the app in action via the developer:
I made a free live wallpaper app that’s on the mac store
by u/EpicKuda in MacOS
Live Wallpapers are not part of MacOS by default, but Apple does offer what they call Dynamic Desktops, which are wallpapers that change lighting throughout the day. Plus, the new Aerial screen savers from Apple will also briefly animate on your desktop when your Mac wakes from the screen saver, and that’s a neat effect too. Perhaps a future version of MacOS will allow users to just natively run those screen savers as wallpapers, something that used to be possible through a defaults command, but that was also removed from MacOS a while ago.
Unrelated, but another nifty trick is setting a website as your wallpaper which might appeal to you as well.
Thanks to reader Jared M for passing this neat little app along.
