Alternatives to Backspace: macOS Live Wallpapers

Matrix Desktop, opens the developer's site in a new tab matrix (web-based green code rain, made with love)

Live Matrix digital rain wallpaper and screensaver for Apple Silicon Macs. Customize presets from the menu bar, run it across multiple displays, and let power and thermal backoff keep it sensible on laptops. Free, with no account or subscription. Requires macOS 14 or later.

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Petit Fire , also on the App Store , opens the developer's site in a new tab Petit Fire puts a small candle light in the corner of your screen while you work.

Petit Fire puts a small candle light in the corner of your Mac screen while you work. Click the menu bar icon to light it and click again to put it out; it stays lit until you do. The menu holds five settings: brightness, size, place, volume and sound. Free on the Mac App Store. macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon and Intel.

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Candela, opens the developer's site in a new tab Protect OLED displays from burn-in, check panels for defects and wear, and give every Mac display better controls.

A macOS menu bar app that protects your displays from OLED burn-in and wear: panel health history, a checkup for defects, and the everyday brightness, volume, and scaling controls macOS leaves out. For anyone with an external monitor on a Mac, and especially OLED owners.

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MacUno, opens the developer's site in a new tab

Your desktop blurs, narrows in perspective, and dims as the lid closes — and restores as it opens. A menu bar app for Apple Silicon MacBooks.

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Arras, opens the developer's site in a new tab Free native macOS photo widgets and editable desktop collages, with slideshows, layers and saved setups.

Arrange photos, slideshows and editable collages on your Mac desktop. Keep natural proportions, choose layers, add captions and save setups. Free and open source.

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