John's Background Switcher 4+
Make your desktop beautiful
John Conners
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- $8.99
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Description
John's Background Switcher puts beautiful full-screen photos and stunning montages on your desktop. Choose the photos from your own collection on your Mac or websites like Flickr, Unsplash, Pixabay, SmugMug, Vladstudio, Google Photos and many more besides. You'll never know what's coming next - maybe photos from a recent holiday, landscapes from far and distant lands, pictures of small kittens or equally small dogs. If you're having a tough day, just take a look at your desktop and John's Background Switcher will get you through it!
Main features include:
• Show single photos or a variety of randomly generated beautiful montages on your desktop
• Choose photos from folders on your Mac, from iPhoto (old skool) or the new Photos app
• Rich Flickr, Unsplash, SmugMug, Pixabay, Vladstudio, Pinterest, Pexels, Wallhaven, Dropbox, OneDrive (personal) and Google Photos integration
• Media RSS photo feeds (so you can use a great many more photo sites)
• Multiple monitor support (show the same background all monitors, different pictures on each monitor or only on one monitor)
• Switching intervals from every 10 seconds to 7 days
• A variety of post processing effects like grayscale, sepia and desaturation
• Lots of new features in the works for future versions (I have a list as long as your arm!)
Once set up JBS quietly runs in the background changing your desktop and stays out of your way. If you don't love it, tell me what you'd like it to do from the support link and I'll add it as soon as I can! And remember, I'm a real person called John so be nice. :)
What’s New
Version 4.1
This version contains a fix for a random crash a few people had (sorry about that, took a while to nail it) and a couple of other performance enhancements and tweaks.
• Speeded up photo downloading in general (especially when creating a photo montage)
• macOS Photos integration now gets photos asynchronously (which will also be faster)
• Added picture titles to Dropbox photos
• You can now only choose from your own SmugMug photos (as instructed by SmugMug HQ)
• Fixed a random crash when the internet connection goes down at exactly the wrong time
• Fixed a crash when attempting to add a folder of photos
If you have any problems or suggestions then don't hesitate to contact me at support@johnsadventures.com and I'll gladly help you out!
Ratings and Reviews
Great App on Mac (and Windows)
This app is great at what it does - changing your background on any and all displays used by your computer when you want it to.
I have been a Bloom County fan since the 1980's. I have all of the strips downloaded from 2015 to the time of this writing (August 2020). I use JBS to switch through them on up to 3 displays on my mac (all desktop monitors) and 3 displays on my Windows machines (2 desktop displays and a laptop display). The app is awesome on both Windows and Mac.
I'm looking forward to seeing updates for JBS for Big Sur so that I can continue using it on my Macs. Its worth the cost and a well functioning app. John is also an attentive developer and responds to issues and feature requests.
Best way to view memories!
This app is GREAT! Simple and clear on how to use. I am just using images from my Apple Photo's and it works great.
On my 21" iMac 4K, I use the "PostCard Pile" view, with pictures at 350 X 350, a "metallic" background, and a random screen overlay effect.
The crisp 4K screen really makes the highres images pop! The automatic switching and random layout of the montages really keeps the background interesting (while I am browsing the WWW).
Easily worth the $ to get this app. Keep up the great work John!
You take nice pictures but your wallpapers are boring?
This is a fantastic app to make the background of your computer a continuously updated gallery of your work (or someone elses)
The app just works and works well. The devleoper is quick to reply when something breaks (once in years of using it.
Pulls from your own galleries on many services or others (if you have permission). Highly recommended
Developer Response ,
Thanks, I do my best! :)
App Privacy
The developer, John Conners, 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
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- John Conners
- Size
- 28.5 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 John Conners
- Price
- $8.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.