Wallper v1.10.0

100,000 of you, one year in — thank you 🎉
A year ago Wallper was a small side project. Today it crossed 100,000 people bringing their Macs to life.

Calmer, flicker-free wallpapers

• No more grey flash when Wallper starts. We were quietly restarting the system wallpaper service on every launch, even when nothing was wrong — which left the desktop bare for a second. Now that only happens if your Lock Screen actually needs repairing.
• Quitting is smooth. Closing Wallper hands your desktop back gently — your previous wallpaper returns and fades out as the app goes, instead of blinking to grey. The window itself closes instantly, so it never feels slow.
• Wallpapers wait for their first real frame before fading in. No more empty black window while the video loads.
• Cmd+H keeps your wallpaper playing. Hiding Wallper now hides only its interface — your wallpaper stays up.

Media Sync, the way it should've worked

• Pause your music and the gradient stays. It freezes on screen instead of snapping back to your normal wallpaper. Your usual wallpaper returns when you turn Media Sync off — not the moment the song stops.
• Start the music again right from Wallper. The play button in the menubar and the dock now controls the paused track, and shows the real play/pause state.
• It sticks through everything. Plugging in a monitor, closing the lid, waking up, low-power mode — the music wallpaper used to silently vanish. Now it stays.
• You can still flip wallpapers with ◀ / ▶ when Media Sync is on but nothing's playing — those buttons no longer go dead.
• A live equalizer on the music icon (dock and menubar) so you can tell at a glance that sync is on and playing.

It remembers what you set

• Your chosen playlist stays chosen. Turning a playlist off no longer un-does itself on the next launch — iCloud was quietly restoring the old one from another Mac.
• Shuffle settings survive a restart even if you close the app right after changing them.
• Each display keeps its own wallpaper. Assignments are tied to the display itself now, not its position, so they survive unplugging and rearranging your monitors.

Faster to browse

• Explore and My Media glide. They were re-decoding every thumbnail from disk on each visit — now the previews stay cached and are drawn at the size they're shown, so switching tabs is instant.
• Every tab is warmed up before you open it, and released when you close the window, so the first visit is as smooth as the rest without wasting memory in the background.
• Full-screen and the home banner reuse the preview you already saw — the thumbnail from the card you tapped shows immediately (softly blurred) while the video spins up, instead of loading from scratch.
• Changed your mind mid-download? Cancel it. Downloads can be stopped once they've started.
• Explore opens on Most Liked, with a proper frosted-glass sort control on macOS 26+.
• The home carousel and "Recommended For You" now lean into calm, high-quality Nature picks.

Settings that read like a human wrote them

• Every setting rewritten in plain language, with clear explanations and confirmation prompts before anything drastic — no more jargon like "Aerial manifest" or "HEVC temporal sub-layer."
• Reorganized into five clear tabs: General, Wallpaper, Media Sync, Storage, and Account.
• Your license key is one tap away — we removed the modal that popped up every time asking to "show personal data," and simply put an eye button on the key itself.
• Real wallpaper names everywhere instead of long internal codes.
• Friendlier icons, and fixes for a couple of settings that were mislabeled or did nothing.

The little things

• Playback controls stay centered instead of shifting around when the like button is hidden — and the like button now hides itself when a playlist or Media Sync is running the queue, where it doesn't apply.
• Display names fit on one line again ("Built-in Retina Display" no longer wraps).
• Simpler wallpaper options per macOS version: on macOS 26+ it's just "Use Lock Screen & Screen Saver," on by default; on macOS 15 and older the menu-bar option is now clearly named "Apply to Desktop Wallpaper."
• Gentler on the battery: wallpapers now run at a smooth 60 fps, dropping to 30 only when you're unplugged and below 20%.