DesktopEngine

Wallpaper, widgets, companions

Only for Mac

Free

Mac

DesktopEngine brings your Mac desktop to life. Live wallpapers, desktop widgets and desktop companions are small programs that run right on your desktop, natively on JavaScriptCore and Metal. LIVE WALLPAPERS • Horizon follows the real clock: the sun crosses the sky, sunrise and sunset glow, and at night the moon rises in its actual phase. Side-by-side displays join into one landscape. • Nebula simulates hundreds of thousands of particles on the GPU, drifting between galaxies, rings and waves. Stir them with the mouse, click to scatter them. • Minetown is a little pixel-art town on the real clock: villagers farm, build and dig a mine by themselves and grow their camp into a city over the days. Click the desktop to play along. • Your own pictures and videos work as wallpapers too: filling the screen, fitted, stretched or centered, one for every display or a different one on each, or a playlist that changes on a schedule. WIDGETS Each widget comes in sizes of its own, and stays on the display you put it on. • Dot Matrix shows how your Mac is doing on a display of glowing dots: the processor core by core, memory, the network, the battery and the power it draws, a page at a time. When something needs you (running hot, low on memory, offline, the battery nearly empty), it turns to that page. • System Receipt is a little thermal printer that prints your Mac's day: the processor each hour, plugging in and the battery, the network dropping, memory pressure, a nearly full disk and how long it slept. It never records which apps ran or which network you were on. • Pomodoro: a dial you turn like a knob to set the minutes, with a bell when time is up. • Flask: the liquid level is your memory use, the bubbling is your CPU. • Particle Clock: a thousand particles spell out the time. DESKTOP COMPANIONS • Pixel Cat strolls along the bottom of your screen, jumps up onto other apps' title bars and rides along when they move, grooms and naps. Four coats: orange, gray tabby, black and tuxedo. • Desk Hamster sits at a little desk: it types when you type and moves its mouse when you move yours. Typing needs Input Monitoring; it only counts key presses, never what you type. • Muncher tidies your desktop by eating files: drop files on it and it moves them to the Trash. Shake it and it spits the last one back where it was. Dress it as Hehe the Box or K-1. Don't need one of the built-ins? Remove it, and get it back any time in Settings or from the store. MORE FROM THE STORE Get More… opens the DesktopEngine store on the web. Try items right in your browser, then add them to the app. Every item is reviewed before it's published, shows its age rating and the permissions it asks for, and is only installed after you confirm in the app. YOUR ACCOUNT AND SYNC Signing in is optional. With an account, what you import, your playlists and options, and the widgets and companions on each Mac are kept in your cloud space and in sync across your Macs. QUIET IN THE BACKGROUND • Decide whether wallpapers keep playing, go silent or pause while another app is full screen, windows cover the desktop or your Mac is on battery. • Content that's covered stops drawing, and everything pauses and goes silent while the displays sleep. • One frame rate limit for everything, a volume for each item, and Pause All Content in the menu bar. • Each item has its own options in a native form, applied while it runs. • Follows Light and Dark Mode, and can open at login. MAKE YOUR OWN If you can build a web page, you can build for DesktopEngine: JavaScript or TypeScript programs using Canvas 2D, WebGL 2, Web Audio, fetch and WebSocket, and three.js and PixiJS work out of the box. The free, open-source SDK (npm install -g @desktopengine/sdk) starts a project from a template, runs it in the app with live reload and packs it for import. Documentation: desktopengine.app Live wallpapers, widgets and companions need a Mac that supports Metal. Picture and video wallpapers work on any Mac.

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- Your library on all your Macs: what you get from the store on one Mac is installed on the others too, and deleted everywhere when you delete it. Pictures, videos and mini programs from your other Macs wait in the library until you use them, unless Download All Content is on; a download shows its progress on its item. - Settings › Storage shows how much your library takes on this Mac, with Reset Data, Remove Download and Clear Cache. - Each display keeps its own scaling, speed and dynamic wallpaper options; the details change the displays picked in the preview. - Options, how pictures and videos are shown, permission answers, sound and the frame rate limit now stay on each Mac instead of syncing. - Deleting anything asks first, and says when it goes from all your Macs and can be restored on the web for 30 days. Uninstalling content also deletes what it saved to sync. Deleting built-in content works the same way: it goes to Recently Deleted on the web with what it saved, and restoring it there brings both back on all your Macs. - Widgets and companions are deleted, downloaded or have their download removed from their tile's menu, and keep their options and sound when taken off the desktop and added again. - A dynamic wallpaper shown on several displays is heard from one of them only. - Fixes and stability improvements.

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

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Contact Info
    • User Content
    • Identifiers
    • Other Data
  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More

Seller
SHEN PENG
Size
11.3 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
Languages
English and Simplified Chinese
Age Rating
4+
Copyright
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