Pixel Soup - Live Wallpaper

Pixel Soup is a live wallpaper app for Mac. It makes animated desktop backgrounds and still wallpapers on your Mac, one pixel at a time: pick a shape, pour in a palette, choose how it is dithered, and your desktop becomes a slow, pixel-soft painting nobody else has.

STILL OR GENTLY MOVING Set a still desktop picture, or let your wallpaper drift slowly behind your icons. Animated wallpapers are drawn by your Mac's graphics chip at a low frame rate, pause when windows cover them and slow down in Low Power Mode, so they are easy on your battery.

TWELVE SHAPES Flow, Mesh, Plasma, Ripple, Aurora, Cells, Topo, Whorl, Sonar, Mosh, Weave, and your own photo. Every shape is generative, so no two wallpapers are the same.

TEN WAYS TO DITHER Smooth gradients, Poster, Bayer 4, Bayer 8, Noise, Halftone, Lines, Diamond, ASCII art and Benday dots. Tune the pixel size, colour levels, contrast, grain and vignette for anything from retro 8-bit pixel art to a soft lo-fi gradient.

YOUR COLOURS Twelve palettes to start with, or mix your own with up to five colours, or pull a palette straight out of a photo.

YOUR PHOTO, DITHERED Turn any picture into a dithered wallpaper. JPEG, PNG and HEIC all work.

ALWAYS ONE CLICK AWAY A tiny ladle waits on the edge of your screen. Click it for a new wallpaper, the previous one, or to switch between still and animated. Click again for the full editor.

FRESH BOWL A new random wallpaper every hour or every day, if you like surprises.

EXPORT Save any wallpaper as a PNG sized for this display, a 6K display, an iPhone or a square.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything is made on your Mac. No account, no network access, nothing collected.

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