Unsplash has fast become one of my favorite sites on the internet. From its humble beginnings as a Tumblr blog, it has now grown into a massive behemoth that offers an amazing collection of over 540,000 photos — almost all of which are absolutely stunning and free to use. Almost every photo on the site is a great fit to be set as Desktop wallpapers and you can browse their collection to download a high-quality wallpaper for your Mac any day. This is what many of us have done over the years — find a good wallpaper off the internet, download it and then set it as your desktop wallpaper. Of course, it’d be a lot easier if there was an app to do this for you automatically, wouldn’t it? So let’s take a look at these three lovely menubar wallpaper apps for Mac that automatically download and set a stunning new wallpaper on your Mac for you.
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Mach Desktop brings your desktop to life with Quartz Compositions, Quicktime Movies, or Web pages. Mach Desktop also comes built-in with over 20 stunning Quartz Compositions and over 7 beautiful. Best 3D wallpaper app for Mac: Earth 3D. Earth 3D is a cool app we recently discovered in the Mac App Store. It is a combination of 3D Screensaver and Live Wallpaper, you can launch app in a full screen and use as 3D screen saver or launch in a small window and enable Live Wallpaper mode and app periodically will generate a new wallpaper. This video is unavailable. Watch Queue Queue. Watch Queue Queue Queue.
Unsplash Wallpapers is the official Unsplash app that brings some breathtaking wallpapers from Unsplash to your desktop. It sits in your Mac’s menubar and automatically updates your wallpaper with a new one every day. If you don’t like a wallpaper it has chosen for you, you can simply ask for a new one and set it manually. Pantone 000c. You can set the frequency of updates to Daily, Weekly or Manually and have the app to launch at Login, so you have a new wallpaper adorning your Desktop every morning.
If you want a basic, hassle-free way to get wallpapers on your Mac, this is the app for you.
Irvue
Irvue is a third-party wallpapers app for Mac that is powered by the powerful and freeUnsplash API. Just like the official app, it brings an incredible collection of wallpapers from Unsplash to your desktop. Unlike the official app though, which is pretty basic, Irvue excels at offering a powerful set of features, customizations, and flexibility.
Irvue supports channels, so instead of seeing a random wallpaper on your desktop, you can fine-tune what you see. You get 3 slots for you, and you can add additional slots for 99 cents each or $3.99 gets you unlimited channels.
- Update Frequency — 30 minutes, hour, 3 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, week, two weeks or month.
- Multi-Display Support — Set the same wallpaper on all displays or different ones.
- Notifications — Irvue fires a notification when it sets a new wallpaper, with info about the photo and its photographer. You can (and should) click on the notification to support and appreciate the photographer’s work.
- Downloads — Each wallpaper in Irvue can be optionally downloaded to your Mac on-demand.
- Blacklist — Don’t like a certain wallpaper? You can add the photo or its photographer to a blacklist.
- Keyboard Shortcuts — Irvue has a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to change wallpapers or add them to the blacklist.
- Account Support — If you have an Unsplash account, you can even like a photo from the current wallpaper and add it to a collection.
For advanced users, there’s support for AppleScript. Heck, Irvue can even auto-update your macOS theme depending on the wallpaper. The feature-set offered by Irvue is simply mind-boggling.
Wallcat
Wallcat is another lovely menubar app for Mac that automatically delivers a new wallpaper for your desktop. Unlike the two other apps we’ve talked about that are only powered by Unsplash, Wallcat offers curated streams of wallpapers that may or may not be from Unsplash. There are four channels to choose from — Structure, Fresh Air, Gradient, and Northern Perspective. There’s no way to change the current wallpaper manually, nor can you pick a custom channel. You also can’t change the update frequency, and new wallpapers are limited to once per day.
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Wallcat is also available for Windows and Chrome. An iOS app is coming soon.
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Wallpapers are the most basic customization an operating system can allow. Even iOS allows changing wallpapers, that’s how basic it is. On a Windows 10 device, Wallpapers are pretty much the only thing you can change in terms of how things look, apart from the accent color. Of course, if you’re willing to risk it you can change a whole lot more than just wallpapers and accent colors. I don’t know about you but I change my wallpapers quite frequently. If you’re the same, it might be a struggle to find new wallpapers as often. Here are 5 wallpaper apps for Windows 10 that’ll fulfill all your wallpaper needs, hopefully.
Wallpapers will help you customize your desktop but if you want to customize the taskbar too, here are some cool Windows 10 taskbar tips and tricks that you should try.
1. 9Zen Wallpaper Changer
9Zen Wallpaper Changer, previously known as Brilli Wallpaper Changer, is arguably the most feature-rich wallpaper app available on the Microsoft Store. Most apps offer wallpaper from a single source such as Bing, or Unsplash. 9Zen offers you wallpapers from various sources, including Bing.
You can set a region for Bing daily images and also set them as your desktop and lock screen wallpaper so that you have a new wallpaper every day. You can also create a collection of your favorite wallpapers, change the time interval at which wallpapers change, etc. It’s a free app but it is ad-supported and only allows 2 collections each with 30 wallpapers. If you want more you’ll need to buy the full version for at least $2.99.
2. Dinamic Wallpaper for Windows 10
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Like 9Zen, Dinamic Wallpaper brings you wallpapers from a variety of different sources which include Bing, 500px Pulse, 500px Macro and NASA Astronomy. You can also add your own local collection to the app. Also, like 9Zen, it allows you to select your region for the Bing Daily wallpaper.
The app automatically changes your desktop and/or lockscreen wallpaper but you cannot select an interval manually. It can also automatically download and save an applied wallpaper to your PC. The app is free, mostly, but you’ll have to pay for access to some parts of it.
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3. Dynamic Theme Wallpaper App
Dynamic Theme is a must-have Windows 10 app especially if you frequently change wallpapers. Even though the name suggests it changes more than just Wallpapers, it doesn’t. The app is free though and mimics the Windows 10 interface quite nicely. It feels like a built-in app and a part of the OS instead of a third-party app.
You can set the app to change your desktop and/or lockscreen wallpaper to a single Bing or Windows Spotlight image. You can also set it to change your wallpaper automatically with new Bing and Windows Spotlight images. There’s not much to the app outside of these two sources. You can set a region for Bing, preview both Bing and Windows Spotlight images before applying, automatically save them to your PC and also set a time interval.
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4. Wallpaper Studio 10
If you’ve used wallpaper apps on Android, you were probably expecting an app with a huge collection of wallpapers neatly put into categories. So far we haven’t given you that but Wallpaper Studio 10 is an app of that kind. It offers wallpapers in various categories like abstract, car, funny, life, nature, quotes, sports, etc.
There are thousands of wallpapers to choose from and you can also have the app automatically change your desktop and/or lockscreen wallpapers at set intervals. The app brings you a great community and you can also upload your own wallpapers to share with the world. The downside is the intrusive and annoying ads but you can get rid of them for $1.35. This is one of the best wallpaper apps for Windows 10 that you can enjoy now.
5. Splash! – Unsplash Wallpaper App
Splash! – Unsplash Wallpaper is an unofficial Unsplash client for Windows 10. For those unaware, Unsplash is an increasingly popular source of high-quality images that users have started using as wallpapers, hence the increasing popularity. Splash!, as you can now guess, offers you these high-quality images as wallpapers without having to browse through the website.
The app is extremely simple to use and you can get started right away once it is installed. When you launch it, your desktop wallpaper changes automatically. By default, the app will keep changing your desktop wallpaper at 1-hour intervals but you can change that and more in the settings. You can also simply click on the app to switch to the next wallpaper and there’s an endless supply of those. The wallpapers are automatically saved to your PC as well. If you want to change the dark and light themes on your Windows 10 computer on a scheduled time, you can do that with Auto Night Mode.