ClipWall

Play videos as your wallpaper

Only for Mac

Free

Mac

Turn your desktop into moving scenery. Play your own clips as the wallpaper, build a rotation, and let it pause itself when nobody is looking. ClipWall plays your own video clips as your desktop wallpaper, looping quietly behind your icons. Add a clip and it plays. Pick a few and it moves between them, fading one into the next. You can trim a clip down to the part you want without re-encoding it, so nothing loses quality and your original file is never touched. Give each display its own clip, or run the same one everywhere, and pick any frame of a clip as its thumbnail. ClipWall lives in the menu bar and takes up no space in the Dock while it runs. It stops playing when the desktop is covered or your computer goes to sleep, so it never burns battery on a video nobody can see. No account, no tracking, and no network access at all.

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Fixes for problems found by users after launch, and a new way to see your wallpaper while you choose it. Fixed a problem that could stop ClipWall from opening. If the menu bar icon had disappeared and clicking the app did nothing, this update fixes it. Fixed the desktop turning black instead of showing a wallpaper. This could happen when no clip was set, or when a clip could not be played. ClipWall now tells you when a video cannot be used, instead of adding it and showing a black screen. Matroska (.mkv) videos cannot be played and need converting to MP4 or MOV first. Adding a video that cannot be played no longer replaces the wallpaper you already had. New: a slider in the Library makes the window see-through, so you can watch your wallpaper playing while you pick a clip.

The developer, Shyam Steenhaut, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Seller
    • Shyam Steenhaut
    Size
    • 2 MB
    Category
    • Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Shyam Steenhaut