Plash

Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper

Plash enables you to have a highly dynamic desktop wallpaper. You could display your favorite news site, Facebook feed, or a random beautiful scenery photo. The use-cases are limitless. You could even set an animated GIF as wallpaper.

You can specify the opacity and reload interval in the preferences.

Use-cases

• Random Unsplash image
  Example: https://source.unsplash.com/random/2880x1756?puppy
  This returns a new random puppy image each time. Replace the numbers with your screen resolution. Subtract 44 (or 22 for non-retina) on the height to account for the menu bar.
• Calendar
  For example, Google Calendar or Outlook 365.
• Personal stats
  You could even make a custom website for this.
• Animated GIF
  Example: https://media3.giphy.com/media/xTiTnLmaxrlBHxsMMg/giphy.gif?cid=790b761121c10e72aca8bcfe50b030502b62a69ac7336782&rid=giphy.gif

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Requires macOS 10.15 or later.

Tip

You can interact with the website by enabling “Browsing Mode”. When in this mode, you can right-click to be able to go back/forward, reload, and zoom in the page contents. You can also pinch to magnify. This is different from zooming the page contents in that it will zoom in to a specific part of the page instead of just enlarging everything.

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FAQ

Can I contribute localizations?

No, we're not interested in localizing the app.

What does “Plash” mean?

Click here.

Can you add support for macOS 10.14 or older?

No, this app uses SwiftUI, which only works on macOS 10.15 and later.

Is this a native app?

Yes, it’s a native app written in Swift.

Can you port it to Windows/Linux?

No, I’m a Mac developer.

Built with

• Defaults - Swifty and modern UserDefaults

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