The live wallpaper engine
your Mac deserves.
GPU-accelerated live wallpapers that look incredible
and barely touch your battery. Built natively for Mac.
7-day free trial|macOS 14+|$7 one-time purchase
Live Wallpapers
Your wallpaper isn't just a video. It's alive.
Interactive, customizable, and rendered in real time. Built natively for Mac.
Parallax Engine
Your desktop has depth now.
Wallpapers with depth maps get real parallax. Hover the demo to see it.
Community Gallery
A growing collection of wallpapers.
Browse what the community has built. Find your aesthetic and then install with a single click.
Divine Flame
Cat in the Rain
Snowy Ramen Night
Frieren Fallen Citadel
Dark Souls Camping
Yuji Studying Lofi
Journey Through the Cavern
Hokage's View
Light's Secret
Scene Editor
Create your own. No code required.
Layer images. Add particle effects. Stack visual filters. Publish to the community. Narwall ships with a full scene editor that turns you into a wallpaper creator.
Menu Bar
Lives in your menu bar.
Switch wallpapers, tweak the ones you have, pause when you need to. Without ever opening a window.
Format Support
Use whatever format you want.
Video files, Metal shaders, web pages, or scenes you build in the editor. Narwall runs all of them.
Scene
Multi-layer compositions with effects and particles
Video
Loop any MP4, MOV, or WebM seamlessly
Shader
Custom Metal shaders — write your own or use bundled ones
Web
HTML/JS wallpapers with full WebKit rendering
Performance
Designed to disappear.
Pauses when you're not looking.
Fullscreen apps, covered windows, lid closed, lock screen. It knows when to stop.
Built on Metal.
Renders entirely on the GPU using Apple’s native graphics framework. Your CPU barely notices.
Adapts to your hardware.
Drops frame rate for static wallpapers, scales quality automatically. Four presets if you want control.
$7
Once. Forever.
I hate subscriptions, so there isn't one. Buy it once, get everything, including future updates.
7-day trial, no card required|macOS 14+|Apple Silicon and Intel
Comparison
How Narwall stacks up.
| Feature | Narwall (Mac) | Wallpaper Engine (Windows) | Other Mac alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU rendering | Metal (native) | DirectX / OpenGL | Video decode only |
| Customizable wallpapers | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Interactive wallpapers | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Smart power management | ✓ | ✓ | Varies |
| Scene editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multi-monitor | ✓ | ✓ | Varies |
| Pricing | $7 one-time | $4 on Steam | $5–$50+ or subscription |
| Mac support | Native | Not available | ✓ |
| Shader wallpapers | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Make your desktop
worth looking at.
macOS 14+|Apple Silicon and Intel|$7 one-time purchase after trial