Spend your day around the world with this beautiful collection of timelapse wallpapers and screen savers.
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.
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Excellent app and concept
dansimmons90
This app brightens up my desktop from a dull canvas into a fascinating variety of scenery, offering an authentic glimpse into parts of the world that I may not otherwise have the chance to see!Great functionality too, with plenty of customisable options and the ability to add and remove from a vast array of stunning images to suit the user.
Great value for money!
Seamus McAtavie
I bought this app in 2012. It’s brilliant! Absolutely stunning time-lapse photographic scenes from all over the world. New views have been regularly added over the course of the years. I love it!
Delightful App
Ruthie-roo
I have had this app for around 2 years now. I love it. I haven't had any problems with it whatsoever. Ever since purchasing a Mac I have noticed a difference in picture quality, but even for a Mac these images are very detailed! The use of timelapse photography means that you can enjoy watching the development of each scene, without it distracting you from work.You get lots of useful options, giving you the ability to change the speed, colour and scenes. This means that you can choose what you want to see and you can pause it if you wish to freeze a specific moment, which is lovely but you can't speed it up/slow it down dramatically.The number of scenes to choose from is brilliant, and they keep adding but it would be nice to have even more from other places in the world. Personally, I’d like to see time lapses of the Glow Worm Caves in Waitomo, New Zealand and of the Sea of Stars in Vaadhoo Island, Maldives. Also, one of Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia during the rainy season would be amazing; it’s effectivly a massive mirror. There should be some generally more interesting places like in caves and some underwater ones would be really awesome!To summerise, I think this app is lovely with some wonderful locations, although more would be nicer. It is easy to use with options to customise it to suit your needs and the image quality is excellent. Unfortunately it drains your battery massively, which is expected. I would definately recommend this, especially putting the price in consideration. It is worth every penny!
Beautiful scenes
williams-p
This app crashed initially, but I used OnyX to run all automation tasks and CleanMyMac to do a cleanup of the computer and the app has since been running perfectly. I downloded all the scenes currently available up to the point of writing this review and it came to about 2.5GB in size. I'm using the scene of Venice and it's just beautiful. Bear in mind that the app uses the discrete GPU (i.e AMD or nVidia) so it will consume battery faster. I'm using an app called gfxCardStatus to keep the MacBook Pro constantly on the integrated CPU graphics (i.e Intel 3000) to save power, but the developer needs to address this because people shouldn't have to mess with third party apps to make it less power-consuming. Apart from these issues, it's a perfectly functional application that works well. I contacted the developed through Facebook and he promptly replied to me on facebook with troubleshooting info and explanation. I recommend the app, but won't give it 5 stars until the developer makes it work with the integrated GPU only (to save power).
- Updated with support for latest macOS version.
- New app icon.
Version 6.0
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