Wallmate
Preparing your desktop
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel

Your desktop, alive.

Cinematic video wallpapers for macOS — featherlight, silent, one click.

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Free download · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · No sign-up
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Wallmate
Live wallpapers for Mac
Cinematic 4K wallpapers — sipping power, never stealing focus.
Hardware-decoded, low CPU
Auto-pauses on Low Power
Lives in the menu bar
$7.90 one-time
No subscription
No sign-up
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Built for macOS,
down to the metal.

Native & efficient

Built on macOS AVFoundation with hardware video decoders. Negligible CPU, marginal extra power over a static wallpaper.

Battery aware

Detects Low Power Mode and automatically pauses to a still frame. No fan spin-up, no surprises.

Menu bar–first

No Dock icon, no window clutter. Browse, pause, and switch wallpapers from a single menu bar dropdown.

Curated library

Hand-picked wallpapers across Nature, Space, Anime, Pixel, Lofi, and Animals. New categories added regularly.

One click

Pick. Click.
Live.

Browse the gallery, click once — your desktop comes alive. No restart, no setup, no fuss.

✓ Instant apply ✓ Hardware decoded ✓ Multi-display
How it works

Three steps.
Sixty seconds.

01
Download

DMG installs in seconds — no account, no sign-up.

02
Pick

Browse the curated gallery and pick a wallpaper that fits your mood.

03
Set

One click sets your live wallpaper. Swap anytime from the menu bar.

Specs

Made for your Mac.

Requires
macOS 14+
Compatible
Apple Silicon & Intel
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No account, no ads
Pricing

One price.
Yours forever.

Wallmate Lifetime

Launch price · 21% OFF
$9.99 $7.90 one-time · no subscription
  • Full library of cinematic wallpapers
  • All future updates included
  • License unlocks one Mac
  • No subscription, ever

Price rises with every new feature shipped. Lock in today's rate — yours forever.

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FAQ

Frequently asked.

Wallmate uses macOS's native AVFoundation pipeline and hardware video decoders, so video playback uses only marginally more power than a static wallpaper. When you switch to Low Power Mode, Wallmate automatically pauses to a still frame.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Not yet. Wallmate currently plays only the curated gallery. Custom video import is on the roadmap.
Yes — each connected display can run its own wallpaper independently.
Wallmate is a one-time $7.90 purchase. No subscription, no account, no ads — yours forever after a single payment.