Magic Window 4+
Wallpaper & Screen Saver
Jetson Creative LLC
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- $14.99
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Description
Spend your day around the world with this collection of timelapse wallpapers and screen savers. Supports latest macOS & M1/M2.
3K/4K/5K display? Get Magic Window 4K.
Magic Window brings your desktop to life with beautiful slow moving timelapse views for your wallpaper and screen saver. The app includes 305 views of coasts, beaches, cities, mountains, lakes, and more. Watch as time and light slowly paint the skies beautiful colors and cities transform from day to night and back again.
Created by the same team that brought you Magic Window for iPad and iPhone, this is a new style of desktop wallpaper made using timelapse photography. The wallpapers slowly blend over time revealing magical changes in scenery and color. The goal is to create slow and subtle movement that does not distract from work.
The speed of the wallpaper can be changed from slowest where movement is not visible to fastest where movement is subtle and noticeable. Depending on if you prefer more static wallpaper or "live" wallpaper you can adjust this setting to conform to your tastes. Most views were filmed over hours and capture complete sky transitions.
EDITIONS:
Magic Window comes in two editions - Magic Window and Magic Window 4K. Please get the right edition for your Mac. If you end up with the wrong version please e-mail support@magicwindow.app.
Magic Window 4K is best for:
* 2016 and newer 15"-16" MacBook Pro with Retina Display
* 2018 and newer 13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display
* iMac with 4K/5K Retina Display
* Mac Pro or Mac Mini with 3K/4K/5K display
Magic Window is ideal for all other Mac Models including:
* MacBook Air (current and older models)
* MacBook Pro models without Retina Display
* MacBook Pro 15"-17” models older than 2016
* MacBook Pro 13" models older than 2018
* MacBook (12")
* iMac models without Retina Display
* Older Mac models in general
Magic Window scenes are full 16:10 HD resolution (1920x1200) and look fantastic on most Mac models. These are truly high definition wallpapers, not stretched low resolution videos.
Magic Window includes 305 scenes: 11 are built into the app, and 294 are downloaded after you install the app. We use scene downloads so we can bring you more and more scenes without making the app larger and larger. There are no additional charges for downloads. You can install the app on as many Macs as you want and download scenes as many times as you want.
The downloadable wallpapers total 20GB in size. You can choose to download as many as you want or download all. You can also delete wallpapers and re-download them later. To download all wallpapers you will need 20GB of spare storage.
Magic Window fully supports multiple monitors, allowing you to have different scenes on each display and to selectively enable or disable displays. AirPlay can also be used to display the scenes on an Apple TV. Note that you can not stretch a single scene across multiple displays.
SELECT NATURESCAPES:
Big Sur, Catalina Island, Mojave Desert, Yosemite National Park, Joshua Tree, Lake Tahoe, New Zealand, Iceland, Mono Lake, Pyramid Lake, Santa Monica, Pacifica, Oregon Coast, and many more!
SELECT CITYSCAPES:
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Chicago, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Florence, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Lucerne, New Orleans, New York City, Paris, Prague, Portland, Rome, San Francisco, Seattle, Taipei, Tokyo, Venice, and many more!
Enjoy Magic Window. If you have questions especially about compatibility with your display setup feel free to contact us at support@magicwindow.app.
This release was shipped from the Liberty Theater in Astoria, Oregon.
PLEASE NOTE:
This is not a system screen saver - it works independently of the system screen saver.
What’s New
Version 5.1
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS! THANK YOU!
- 16 new scenes including Monterey, White Sands, Tokyo, Miami, and more!
- Fixes several multi-monitor issues.
- If you have any issues with the update please contact us at support@magicwindow.app.
Ratings and Reviews
I never thought Windows could be magic… but this one is!! ;-)
Seriously, do yourself a favour and stop buying your morning coffee for just 1 day, and you can afford this incredible desktop experience. You are transported to the location with amazing time-lapse views that melt in time as they change. As a desktop backdrop it's perfect… sorry Lion, full-screen App mode is great, but I now prefer to see the desktop over time. Also, for those saying Lion is "now dull" in colour? (I don't know what they're on about), but this is the perfect solution. Incredible scenes and pain-staking work in presenting the animated sequences (not as easy as people would think to just record a video!). Ha ha… as I type this, I'm watching the setting Sun disappear over the Pacifica cliffs and ocean beyond, slowly, in the background! Cool!. :-)
Beautiful
This turns your desktop into a truly beautiful window into the world. The scenes are very aesthetically pleasing - who knew looking out an airport window would look so good? As the developers claim, it is very smooth and so does not jerk your eyes away from your work with sudden changes. In fact, when you first look at it, you wonder if it is changing at all, but after a couple of minutes you realise it is.
Sadly, if you want to do any useful work on your computer at all, you have to cover your desktop with windows, but then you get a different perspective on the small amounts of the picture you can see. Works great with a second display. Sometimes, I just leave it running through my wall-mounted 1080p TV for a beautiful scene on my wall. Can also use for screen saver.
Unobtrusive controls - can load automatically on startup, and can set to show only small icon in menu bar. Uses small amount of CPU, but there is no noticeable performance hit when doing everyday computing. Is quite customisable, so you can select only certain scenes, etc.
I was happy to pay $5.49 to transform my desktop and wow my friends.
A Truly Magic Window
With 20 fantastic scenes, from a rail yard to a simple sunrise, this is a must-have app. It can work as either a wallpaper or a screensaver. It works most effectively as a (moving) wallpaper, for example: you might be open up some full-screen apps (if using lion) and after a while you close them down to find the sky in the scene has changed. Or I sometimes just take a peek now and then. The simplest idea to freshen up your desktop.
App Privacy
The developer, Jetson Creative LLC, 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 Linked to You
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Information
- Seller
- Jetson Creative LLC
- Size
- 1.1 GB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 Jetson Creative, LLC
- Price
- $14.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.