Skyshift: Live Wallpapers
Entertainment
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Skyshift is wallpaper as living art. Every scene is drawn in code and animated in real time — and most follow your actual clock, so as you browse, morning looks like morning, sunset burns gold, and after dark the stars come out, city windows flicker on, and the northern lights start to dance.
NO IMAGES. NO DOWNLOADS. JUST MATH.
All 164 scenes are procedural: waves, petals, rain, auroras and star fields described in code and rendered at up to 60 fps. No photo packs, nothing to download, and no two moments ever look quite the same — it all fits in a tiny download.
SET IT AS A LIVE PHOTO OR A STILL
Found a moment you love? Save it as a Live Photo that moves on your Lock Screen when you touch and hold, or as a crisp still image — then set it as your Lock or Home Screen from the Photos app in a couple of taps. (Scenes animate and follow the time of day while you browse in the app; what you set is the moment you saved.)
SURPRISE ME — INFINITE UNIVERSES
Tap Surprise Me and Skyshift grows a wallpaper that has never existed: a one-of-a-kind cosmos with its own nebulae, star field, a ringed planet, sometimes a spiral galaxy and passing comets — each with a poetic name. Shuffle for another, or keep the one you love. Over two billion possibilities.
164 HAND-CRAFTED SCENES — browse by Live, Dynamic, Static, or by theme
• Nature — Alpine Peaks, Rolling Fog, Canyon, Wildflower Meadow, Lavender Hills, Bamboo Grove, Savanna, Snowfall, Sakura Breeze and more
• Farm & pets — sheep, horses, a red barn, ducks, a dog in the park, a cat
• Water — Mirror Lake, Misty Falls, Harbor, Koi Pond, Lighthouse Point, Tide
• Sky — Daybreak, Balloon Fiesta, Murmuration, Skydance, Cloud Sea
• Night — Skyline, Campfire, Polar Night, Firefly Grove, Lantern Festival
• City — rush-hour light trails, a ferris wheel, neon squares, the subway
• London — Big Ben, Tower Bridge, the Eye, a red bus, the Shard
• Village · Italy — cottages and watermills; the Colosseum, Venice, Amalfi
• Safari — elephants, giraffes, lions, zebras, a cheetah at full sprint
• Spooky — a haunted manor, a graveyard, jack-o-lanterns, a blood moon
• Fantasy — floating isles, a dragon, a sky castle, a glowing mushroom grove
• Abstract — Liquid Dusk, Zen Garden, Deep Space, Neon Grid, Ink Ripples
TIME-AWARE SCENES
Kites by day, meteors by night. Butterflies at noon, fireflies at dusk. The barn window glows only after dark; the sky is genuinely dark all night and warms up only at real dawn. Scrub through any hour with the time slider, or watch a whole day pass in seconds with time-lapse.
A LIVING CLOCK & WATCH FACES
A full-screen ambient clock over the living sky, plus a gallery of beautiful clock faces — a gold Swiss chronograph, glowing nixie tubes, a 7-segment LCD, a binary clock, an aurora ring and a live moon-phase card.
ADOPT A POCKET PET
Mochi the dog, Suki the cat, or Pip the penguin — a tiny animated friend that floats over the app. Drag it anywhere; it follows you from screen to screen.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Skyshift is 100% offline. No ads, no analytics, no accounts, no network access at all. The only permission it ever asks for is adding photos you chose to save.
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New: save any scene as a Live Photo that moves on your Lock Screen when you touch and hold. Plus refinements and fixes.
The developer, Imam tariq bin Akram, 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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Information
- Seller
- Imam tariq bin Akram
- Size
- 19 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 13.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 13.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Imam tariq bin Akram