Every wallpaper in MacWall is a 4K video loop. Setting one replaces your desktop picture with hardware-decoded playback; your icons, windows, Stage Manager, and Mission Control behave exactly as before. The catalog spans 9 categories: Anime, Nature, Cars, Gaming, Space, Heroes, Dark, Abstract, Others.
From the app
- Open MacWall and browse Featured, Newest, Popular, or a category.
- Click a wallpaper to open its detail view and preview the loop.
- Click Set wallpaper. First use downloads the video; after that it is cached locally and applies instantly.
From the web gallery
You can also browse the full catalog at macwall.app/wallpapers in any browser. Each detail page has a Set on Mac link that hands the wallpaper to the installed app through a `macwall://` deep link. If MacWall is not installed yet, the same link offers the download instead.
Multiple displays
- Same loop everywhere: one wallpaper mirrored across every connected display, decoded once.
- Different loop per display: select a display in MacWall, then set a wallpaper while it is focused.
- Disconnecting a display keeps its assignment. Reconnect it later and the wallpaper returns.
Playlists and shuffle
Shuffle rotates wallpapers from your favourites, your downloads or the whole catalog every 15 minutes, 1, 4 or 12 hours, or once a day, and Day Schedule picks a wallpaper by time of day. Rotation happens at the video layer, so switching loops does not touch your desktop layout or reset window positions.
More in this section
- Import your own videosDrag any MP4, MOV, M4V, or GIF into MacWall to use it as a Mac live wallpaper, plus the encoding settings that keep playback smooth and efficient.
- Live Lock ScreenTurn on MacWall's live Lock Screen and Screen Saver playback on macOS 26 (Tahoe) and later, and understand the macOS limits behind it.