Pixel Soup - Live Wallpaper
Animated Desktop Backgrounds
Only for Mac
$4.99
Mac
Pixel Soup is a live wallpaper app for Mac. It makes animated desktop backgrounds and still wallpapers on your Mac: liquid metal rolling under studio light, beams of light, eclipses and planets, satin folds, and dithered pixel art. Pick a shape, pour in a palette, choose how it is dithered, and your desktop becomes something nobody else has.
NEW IN 1.1: LIQUID METAL AND 14 MORE
Metal, Silk, Beams, Halo, Ribbon, Curtain, Nova, Spotlight, Exposure, Planet, Tiles, Orbit, Dawn, Threads and Fold. Chrome, gold, mercury and rose gold that flows behind your icons, starbursts, auroras and a corona that breathes around an eclipse.
26 SHAPES
The new 15, plus Flow, Mesh, Plasma, Ripple, Aurora, Cells, Topo, Whorl, Sonar, Mosh and Weave, and your own photo. Every shape is generative, so no two wallpapers are the same.
OVER 200 PALETTES
Metals, auroras, eclipses, sunsets and more, grouped by the shape they suit. Or mix your own with up to five colours, or pull a palette straight out of a photo.
STILL OR GENTLY MOVING
Set a still desktop picture, or let your wallpaper drift behind your icons at a steady 30 frames a second. It is drawn by your Mac's graphics chip in a couple of milliseconds a frame and pauses when windows cover the desktop, so it is easy on your battery.
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 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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You can now hide the handle. Choose Hidden under Handle Position in the menu bar icon, and your desktop stays completely clean. The menu bar icon still opens the editor and switches wallpapers. Thanks to Eugene for the idea. (• - •)ゝ
The developer, Madhav Oberoi, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Madhav Oberoi
- Size
- 838.2 KB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Madhav Oberoi
